Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here are your hosts.

John Joseph Adams and David Barr-Kirtley.

Hi, this is David.

And this is Dave. And this is John.

And welcome to episode 74 of Geek's Guys of the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Stephen Ericsson,

author of the 10-volume epic fantasy series Melazin Book of the Fallen.

The series grew out of a pen and paper role-playing game that Erickson developed with Ian Cameron

Eselmont, who's also written novels set in the Laws and World.

Ericsson is trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist

and attended the Iowa Writers Workshop.

His latest novel, Forge of Darkness,

is the first in a prequel trilogy

set hundreds of thousands of years before the main series.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geek Doug Cohen joins us to discuss examples of

epic fantasy and short fiction including my new anthology, Epic.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Stephen Ericsson, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Okay, so you recently wrapped up your 10 book Epic Fantasy series, Mulvazin, Book of the Fallen.

And you've just written a new book called Forge of Darkness. You want to tell us about that?

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