Glen Cook
Author
Series
Instrumentalities of the night volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The Night goes on, in dread. The world goes on, in dread. The ice builds and slides southward. New kings come. A new empress will rule. Another rump polishes the Patriarchal Throne. But there is something...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"GLEN COOK is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company series, The Garrett Files, and The Tyranny of the Night. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife, Carol. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri."--
"Years into a campaign against the rebels who have rallied behind the White Rose have left the Company jaded and the Lady seems to have...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead. Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.... --From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
They were the last of the great warrior brotherhoods. Many of them were cruel-men who found, as mercenaries, an outlet for their dark natures; some were men of honor who maintained high standards of professionalism, no matter how foul the deeds they performed; all of them were hard, for warfare hardens men,,, if they are to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"A conclusion to the trilogy that includes A Cruel Wind finds a disgraced King Bragia Ragnarson imprisoned by Lord Shih-Kaa and the Empress Mist while his queen and army struggle to rescue him without the help of Michael Trebilcock and Aral Dantice, a situation that is further complicated by the Duke of Greyfells's efforts to seize the throne of Kavelin."--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A intense, hard sci-fi novel of warfare in the equivalent of a submarine corps. The story follows one Climber crew on a single combat mission. Cook writes an incredibly realistic and believable story of claustrophobia, terror, confusion and faith. The narrator, a war correspondent and eternal outsider, struggles to understand the motivations of the men with whom he is serving.
Author
Series
Black Company volume 4, 5 and 6
Pub. Date
c2008.
Description
"Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow. When hope dies, there's still survival. And there's still the Black Company. The Book of the South is the second omnibus of novels from one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cook's Black Company series―collecting...
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
This anthology has assembled distinguished authors to write stories in honor of the genius of Jack Vance, stories using the bizarre and darkly beautiful far future setting of the Dying Earth, near the very end of Earth's lifespan, where mighty wizards duel with spells of dreadful potency under a waning and almost burnt-out red sun, and adventurers and cutpurses strive to hoodwink and out-trick each other in haunted forests full of demons and monsters...
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