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Glen Cook

Author of The Black Company

123+ Works 31,358 Members 475 Reviews 96 Favorited

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Series

Works by Glen Cook

The Black Company (1984) 2,873 copies
Chronicles of the Black Company (1986) 1,789 copies
Shadows Linger (1984) 1,435 copies
The White Rose (1985) 1,323 copies
Shadow Games (1989) 1,007 copies
Dreams of Steel (1990) 984 copies
Bleak Seasons (1996) 961 copies
The Silver Spike (1989) 908 copies
Sweet Silver Blues (1987) 883 copies
Water Sleeps (1999) 834 copies
She Is the Darkness (1997) 814 copies
The Books of the South (2002) 812 copies
Soldiers Live (1989) 780 copies
The Tyranny of the Night (2005) 653 copies
Bitter Gold Hearts (1988) 621 copies
Cold Copper Tears (1988) 603 copies
Old Tin Sorrows (1989) 560 copies
Faded Steel Heat (1999) 542 copies
Dread Brass Shadows (1990) 513 copies
Angry Lead Skies (2002) 510 copies
Whispering Nickel Idols (2005) 507 copies
Petty Pewter Gods (1995) 498 copies
Red Iron Nights (1991) 485 copies
Deadly Quicksilver Lies (1994) 470 copies
The Dragon Never Sleeps (1988) 450 copies
The Tower of Fear (1994) 444 copies
The Swordbearer (1982) 426 copies
Cruel Zinc Melodies (2008) 417 copies
Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007) 398 copies
The Garrett Files (2003) 378 copies
Passage at Arms (1985) 333 copies
Shadowline (1982) 332 copies
Gilded Latten Bones (2010) 304 copies
Stars End (1982) 250 copies
Starfishers (1982) 233 copies
Reap the East Wind (1987) 229 copies
An Ill Fate Marshalling (1988) 216 copies
Port of Shadows (2018) 216 copies
Doomstalker (1985) 215 copies
A Matter of Time (1985) 210 copies
Garrett, P.I. (2003) 201 copies
Ceremony (1986) 180 copies
Wicked Bronze Ambition (2013) 175 copies
Warlock (1985) 174 copies
Garrett Investigates (2004) 168 copies
October's Baby (1980) 165 copies
All Darkness Met (1984) 161 copies
Sung In Blood (1990) 140 copies
With Mercy Toward None (1985) 137 copies
The Fire in His Hands (1984) 127 copies
A Path to Coldness of Heart (2012) 123 copies
Darkwar (2010) 120 copies
Working God's Mischief (2014) 103 copies
The Heirs of Babylon (1972) 93 copies
Garrett on the Case (2005) 72 copies
Water Sleeps, Part 1/2 (2005) 39 copies
Winter's Dreams (2012) 38 copies
Water Sleeps, Part 2/2 (2005) 36 copies
Soldiers Live, Part 1/2 (2006) 35 copies
The Starfishers Trilogy (2017) 34 copies
A Pitiless Rain 32 copies
Soldiers Live, Part 2/2 (2006) 32 copies
Shadow Thieves (2011) 3 copies
Severed Heads 3 copies
The Good Magician (2009) 3 copies
Raker {Short Story} (1982) 3 copies
Filed Teeth 3 copies
Ghost Stalk 3 copies
Quiet Sea 2 copies
Silverheels 2 copies
Bone Candy 1 copy
Sunrise 1 copy
Hell's Forge 1 copy

Associated Works

Sword and Sorceress I (1984) — Contributor — 687 copies
Songs of the Dying Earth (2009) — Contributor — 614 copies
Down These Strange Streets (2011) — Contributor — 492 copies
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery (2010) — Contributor — 282 copies
Dragons of Darkness (1981) — Contributor — 167 copies
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (2012) — Contributor — 151 copies
Fearsome Journeys (2013) — Contributor — 107 copies
Shattered Shields (2014) — Contributor — 99 copies
Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues (2015) — Foreword, some editions — 74 copies
Operation Arcana (2015) — Contributor — 66 copies
Clarion (1971) — Contributor — 61 copies
Clarion II (1972) — Contributor — 56 copies
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 (2011) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Berkley Showcase Vol. 2 (1980) — Author — 27 copies
Writing Fantasy Heroes: Powerful Advice from the Pros (2013) — Contributor — 27 copies
Space Dogfights (1992) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1982, Vol. 63, No. 2 (1982) — Contributor; Contributor — 10 copies
Tomorrow Today (Planet Series) (1975) — Contributor — 10 copies
BSFAN: Balticon 31 Convention Souvenir Book (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy
Bonds of Valor (2023) 1 copy

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For reasons I don’t totally understand I didn’t like this book. I like The Black Company but this one just didn’t do it for me.
 
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cdaley | 13 other reviews | Nov 2, 2023 |
Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars, but rounded up.

So this is the spiritual/genre predecessor to Malazan, apparently. And I totally see that. Actually, the first book of the Malazan decalogy owes a tremendous amount to this. I'd have to reread it (Ha! Not going to happen anytime soon!), but I feel like that was *very* directly inspired by this in style and voice.

This is much better, in my thinking. An engaging world! Action! Characters! Less than 1100 pages long! Significantly less!

I want to read some of the other books in this series because it got me hooked, but I also burn out of this genre fast, so I will hold off/toss that on the "someday" pile. (While the "we took this commission, so we're finishing it, even if we all think it is serving 'evil,' but what can we do, the other side is 'evil' too, we're just a band of brothers, and we're pretty ugly ourselves, too, if you look even a little close..." thing works for some, and others claim it is 'more realistic', I find the whole thing a little bit trite.)
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dcunning11235 | 74 other reviews | Aug 12, 2023 |
Hard fantasy- dark, vibrant and gritty. Complex universe creation
 
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TonyBethan | 11 other reviews | Aug 2, 2023 |
Hard fantasy- dark, vibrant and gritty. Complex universe creation
 
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Statistics

Works
123
Also by
24
Members
31,358
Popularity
#628
Rating
3.8
Reviews
475
ISBNs
392
Languages
11
Favorited
96

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