Glen Cook
Author of The Black Company
About the Author
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Series
Works by Glen Cook
A Pitiless Rain 32 copies
The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire (2019) 20 copies
Annals of the Black Company: The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose, Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, The… (2018) 13 copies
And Dragons In The Sky 5 copies
Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire (2020) 4 copies
Severed Heads 3 copies
Ghost Stalk 3 copies
Filed Teeth 3 copies
Call For The Dead 3 copies
In the Wind [short story] 2 copies
Quiet Sea 2 copies
The Seventh Fool 2 copies
A Companhia Negra - eBook 2 copies
Song From A Forgotten Hill 2 copies
The Complete Instrumentalities of the Night Series: The Tyranny of the Night, Lord of the Silent Kingdom, Surrender to… (2018) 2 copies
The Nights Of Dreadful Silence 2 copies
Ponce [short story] 2 copies
Silverheels 2 copies
The Swap Academy 2 copies
Ezüstszegek 1 copy
La Compañía Negra 1: La primera crónica / Chronicles of the Black Company 1: The Black Company (La Compañia Negra)… (2019) 1 copy
Hell's Forge 1 copy
Shaggy Dog Bridge 1 copy
Bone Candy 1 copy
A Rosa Branca - eBook 1 copy
Castle Of Tears 1 copy
As Sombras Eternas - eBook 1 copy
The Recruiter 1 copy
Complete Black Company (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, the White Rose, Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, the Sliver… (1963) 1 copy
Gryphon's Eyrie 1 copy
Sunrise 1 copy
The Devil's Tooth 1 copy
Finding Svale's Daughter 1 copy
Enemy Territory 1 copy
Appointment In Samarkand 1 copy
The Sword Bearer 1 copy
Associated Works
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues (2015) — Foreword, some editions — 79 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1978, Vol. 54, No. 5 (1978) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1980, Vol. 59, No. 1 (1980) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1982, Vol. 63, No. 2 (1982) — Contributor; Contributor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 13 [Mid-December 1982] (1982) — Contributor — 10 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Cook, Glen Charles
- Other names
- STEVENS, Greg (pen name)
COOK, Glen Charles
COOK, Glen - Birthdate
- 1944-07-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Occupations
- Auto Assembly Plant worker
science fiction writer
fantasy writer - Organizations
- General Motors
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Reviews
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I don’t have a ton of analysis to offer this time, and the main intention of this review is to get you to start book 1 if you haven’t read this series yet. I’ll start by reiterate its selling points.
No bloat. Lean & mean, nothing spoonfed, nothing stretched nor repeated, no world building except for what happens.
No bullshit. No self-serious convoluted magic system, no glossary, no maps.
No borders. Cook writes what he wants, in full freedom and with an unrestrained, original imagination.
No brainwashing. Cook has no political agenda – except maybe showing that morals are messy, and that evil exists.
(...)
Full review on Weighing A Pig… (more)
I don’t have a ton of analysis to offer this time, and the main intention of this review is to get you to start book 1 if you haven’t read this series yet. I’ll start by reiterate its selling points.
No bloat. Lean & mean, nothing spoonfed, nothing stretched nor repeated, no world building except for what happens.
No bullshit. No self-serious convoluted magic system, no glossary, no maps.
No borders. Cook writes what he wants, in full freedom and with an unrestrained, original imagination.
No brainwashing. Cook has no political agenda – except maybe showing that morals are messy, and that evil exists.
(...)
Full review on Weighing A Pig… (more)
I've seen lots of recommendations for this series so I picked up this omnibus edition.
I enjoyed the first book the least, mainly due to the single viewpoint. Also you are thrown into the middle of the story and have to work out stuff as you read.
The 2nd and 3rd books had more viewpoints and the writing has improved somewhat.
I still found the writing somewhat terse. The world, magic system and some of the politics of the setting could use some fleshing out.
I have the next volume, but will read something else before I go back to Croaker and the company...… (more)
I enjoyed the first book the least, mainly due to the single viewpoint. Also you are thrown into the middle of the story and have to work out stuff as you read.
The 2nd and 3rd books had more viewpoints and the writing has improved somewhat.
I still found the writing somewhat terse. The world, magic system and some of the politics of the setting could use some fleshing out.
I have the next volume, but will read something else before I go back to Croaker and the company...… (more)
I enjoyed the characters and the different feel of this novel. It isn't a Black Company novel, or Dread Empire, but a new world with new characters. Good, Cook-style fantasy.
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- 131
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- Rating
- 3.8
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There were no interesting or sympathetic characters. None of them seemed even human. They were all some combination of grim, cold, cruel, or vapid; and uniformly two-dimensional. The plot (such as it was) was about a feud between two feudalistic families, but I didn't care one bit what happened. And because of the bad writing, I was confused much of the time.
Don't waste your time on this.