Glen Cook

Glen Cook is a fantasy/science fiction author. He (I hear rumors that this may in fact be the wrong pronoun, but I figure it's safest to stick with the identity the author has created for public consumption) has written quite a few books, most notably the Black Company series and the Garrett, P.I. series. A complete bibliography, by universe, is included (thanks to the Glen Cook Fan Page (http://www.xmission.com/~shpshftr/GC/GC-Home.html, accessed on 11/26/2000) for this information), with commentary to follow:

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The Haunting Dread Empire

• The Dread Empire Trilogy Prequels
  • The Fire in His Hands
  • With Mercy Toward None
• The Dread Empire Trilogy
  • A Shadow of All Night Falling
  • October's Baby
  • All Darkness Met
• The Dread Empire Trilogy Sequels
  • Reap The East Wind
  • An Ill Fate Marshalling
• Short Fiction
  • Call for the Dead
  • Castle of Tears
  • Filed Teeth
  • Ghost Stalk
  • The Nights of Deadful Silence
  • Severed Heads
  • Soldier of an Empire
  • Unacquainted With Defeat

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The Starfishers Future

• The Starfishers Trilogy
  • Shadowline
  • Starfishers
  • Star's End
• Additional
  • Passage At Arms
• Short Fiction
  • And Dragons in the Sky
  • Enemy Territory
  • In the Wind
  • Quiet Sea
  • The Recruiter
  • Sunrise

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The Black Company

• The Books of the North
  • The Black Company
  • Shadows Linger
  • The White Rose
• The Books of the South
  • Shadow Games
  • Dreams of Steel
• The Books of Glittering Stone
  • Bleak Seasons
  • She Is The Darkness
  • Water Sleeps
  • Soldiers Live
• Additional
  • The Silver Spike
• Omnibus
  • Annals of the Black Company
• Short Fiction
  • Raker

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Darkwar

• The Darkwar Trilogy
  • Doomstalker
  • Warlock
  • Ceremony
• Short Fiction
  • Darkwar

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From the Files of Garrett, P.I.

• Novels
  • Sweet Silver Blues
  • Bitter Gold Hearts
  • Cold Copper Tears
  • Old Tin Sorrows
  • Dread Brass Shadows
  • Red Iron Nights
  • Deadly Quicksilver Lies
  • Petty Pewter Gods
  • Faded Steel Heat
  • Angry Lead Skies
• Omnibus
  • The Garrett Files

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Endgame

• Short Fiction
  • The Devil's Tooth

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The Dragon Never Sleeps

• Novels
  • The Dragon Never Sleeps
• Short Fiction
  • Winter's Dreams

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Miscellaneous

• Novels
  • The Heirs of Babylon
  • A Matter of Time
  • Sung in Blood
  • The Swap Academy
  • The Swordbearer
  • The Tower of Fear
• Short Fiction
  • Appointment in Samarkand
  • Ponce
  • The Seventh Fool
  • Silverheels
  • Song From A Forgotten Hill
  • The Waiting Sea

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I happen to think that Glen Cook is the most underappreciated author I've ever read. His stuff has a simplicity and directness of phrasing that I've never seen anywhere else, and yet there is subtlety there. It's difficult to describe, but I find him much more compelling than Robert Jordan or J.K. Rowling. Though the middle books are a little depressing, the Black Company books are really excellent, and the Garrett stuff is light and amusing without having quite the slapstick, subtle-as-a-blowtorch feel of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In addition, I have recently become aware that the Garrett novels' main characters bear a striking resemblance to Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe, characters in a very long series of mystery novels by Rex Stout.

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