New Releases by Glen Cook

Fourteen Tremendous Authors. Fourteen Extraordinary Stories. One Amazing Anthology.An ancient spear of legend warded by a torturer. Swords that define families, for good and ill. Magic too powerful not to use, but too dangerous to keep. It''s all here, along with dragons, ogres, and gods both old and new. These fourteen great stories continue universes you know and love, including Glen Cook''s Black Company, Jon R. Osborne''s Milesian Accords, and D.J. Butler''s Tales of Indrajit & Fix. And there are fresh new voices bringing worlds you''re going to love. Turn the page and read of valorous deeds and the keen edge of steel, shining in battle.

Drohende Schatten ... Nach der verheerenden Schlacht am Tower of Charm führt Croaker die letzten Überlebenden der Schwarzen Kompanie auf einem gefahrvollen Weg in Richtung Süden. Mit letzter Kraft hoffen sie die geheimnisvolle Stadt Khatovar zu erreichen. Auf ihrem Weg treffen sie auf neue Verbündete. Viele Kämpfer schließen sich ihnen an. Doch ihr Schicksal ist ungewiss, denn es zieht bereits eine neue Gefahr herauf. Der Herrscher der Schattenlande ist erwacht und ein neuer Krieg steht kurz bevor. Zwischen den Fronten lauern Verschwörung und Verrat, und was auch immer auf der anderen Seite der Schattenlande wartet, scheint es wert zu sein, die Wahrheit zu verschweigen ... Das erste Buch des Südens Vierter Band der Dark Fantasy Reihe "Die Schwarzen Kompanie" von Glen Cook

The best short fiction of legendary author Glen Cook (The Black Company, the Dread Empire) is collected into a new volume. For over forty years, Glen Cook has been among the most well-known, influential, and widely respected authors in science fiction and fantasy. Through classic series such as The Black Company, Garrett P.I., the Dread Empire, Starfishers, Darkwar, and more, his gritty, down-to-earth style left an indelible impression on his readers around the world, forever shifting the genre landscape and carving out his place as a pioneering icon. The Best of Glen Cook collects eighteen of his greatest stories—as chosen and introduced by the author himself—including a new, never-before-published Black Company novelette. With works set in all of his most famous series, these tales of science fiction and fantasy offer both the perfect way for longtime fans to trace Cook’s history and for new readers to become familiar with one of the finest genre authors of the twentieth century.

La Rosa blanca es la tercera entrega de la trilogía «Libros del Norte», de la que se estrena serie en 2019. Bienvenido al lado más oscuro y crudo del Fantasy. Nadie abandona la Compañía, excepto si es con los pies por delante. La Compañía es el hogar. «Los tiempos son desesperados para la Compañía Negra. No podemos permitirnos bajas. Cualquier hombre perdido será un amigo de muchos años. Conté de nuevo. Esta vez todo parecía estar bien. Pero había una montura sin jinete... Me eché a temblar pese al calor.»

Sombras fluctuantes es la segunda entrega de la trilogía «Libros del Norte», de la que se estrena serie en 2019. Bienvenido al lado más oscuro y crudo del fantasy. Nadie abandona la Compañía, excepto si es con los pies por delante. La Compañía es el hogar. «Todos los hombres nacen condenados. Eso dicen los sabios. Todos maman del pecho de la Muerte. Todos inclinan la cabeza ante el Monarca Silencioso. Ese Señor en la Sombra alza un dedo. Una pluma revolotea hasta el suelo. No hay razón alguna en su canción. Los buenos mueren jóvenes. Los perversos prosperan. Es el rey de los Señores del Caos. Su aliento hiela todas las almas.»

La Compañía Negra (La primera crónica) es la primera entrega de la trilogía «Libros del Norte», de la que se estrena serie en 2019. Bienvenido al lado más oscuro y crudo del Fantasy. Nadie abandona la Compañía, excepto si es con los pies por delante. La Compañía es el hogar. «Somos la última de las Doce Auténticas Compañías. Hemos sobrevivido más de un siglo a las demás, pero temo que nos encontremos en nuestro ocaso. Siento que esta puede ser la última misión. Una página de la historia está a punto de pasar, y una vez lo haga, las grandes hermandades guerreras quedarán destruidas y olvidadas.»

The dystopian politics of 1984 meet the naval warship backdrop of The Last Ship in fantasy master Glen Cook’s reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades. It is 2193, and still the war continues. Two hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in isolated communities. Law and order is carried out by the Political Office, black-clad police who rule through fear and violence, commanding the world’s survivors how to think, how to act, and when to obey the call to the Gathering: the ritual massing for war against an unknown and unseen Enemy. Now the call has come, and all nations must pay tribute. Kurt Ranke is a young man eking out an existence in the ruins of former Germany with his pregnant wife. But when the Gathering is called, he boards the decrepit destroyer Jäger—a once-mighty warship now more than two centuries old. Antiquated, broken-down, and running on steam, it wallows through uncharted waters carrying Ranke and a reluctant and ragtag group of soldiers en route to the Final Meeting: a battle from which it’s rumored none have ever returned . . . Night Shade Books is proud to reissue, for the first time and now with a brand-new foreword from the author, The Heirs of Babylon, Glen Cook’s long-unavailable debut novel, a dark blend of post-apocalyptic naval warfare, Orwellian political intrigue, and the intimate, war-correspondent prose the author is known for.

Glen Cook, the father of Grimdark, returns to the Chronicles of the Black Company with a military fantasy adventure in Port of Shadows. The soldiers of the Black Company don’t ask questions, they get paid. But being “The Lady’s favored” is attracting the wrong kind of attention and has put a target on their backs--and the Company’s historian, Croaker, has the biggest target of all. The one person who was taken into The Lady’s Tower and returned unchanged has earned the special interest of the court of sorcerers known as The Ten Who Were Taken. Now, he and the company are being asked to seek the aid of their newest member, Mischievous Rain, to break a rebel army. However, Croaker doesn’t trust any of the Taken, especially not ones that look so much like The Lady and her sister... The Chronicles of the Black Company #1 The Chronicles of The Black Company #2 The Books of the South #3 The Return of The Black Company #4 The Many Deaths of the Black Company At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An omnibus edition of the final three Dread Empire novels (Reap the East Wind, An Ill Fate Marshalling, and A Path to Coldness of Heart) from a pioneer of gritty and realistic epic fantasy, Glen Cook. The Dread Empire spans a continent: from the highest peaks of the Dragon’s Teeth to the endless desert lands of Hammad al Nakir; from besieged Kavelin to mighty Shinsan . . . The time of the wrath of kings is close at hand. Bragi Ragnarson, now the king of Kavelin, has decided to join forces with Chatelain Mist, the exiled princess of Shinshan looking to usurp her throne. But in the deserts on the outskirts of the empire, a young victim of the Great Eastern Wars becomes the Deliverer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions of the dead. Wrath of Kings collects the final Dread Empire trilogy into a single volume. This epic narrative had been put on hold when the original manuscript to the final volume was stolen. Glen returned to the Dread Empire twenty years later, completely rewriting the concluding novel, A Path to Coldness of Heart. From the author of The Black Company comes an elaborate tale of nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all shown through the filter of the author’s inimitable war-correspondent prose.

This discounted ebundle includes: The Tyranny of the Night, Lord of the Silent Kingdom, Surrender to the Will of the Night, Working God''s Mischief “Timely and timeless...The author of the Black Company series brings a stark realism to his tales of imaginary lands” —Library Journal (starred review) In this epic fantasy series from Glen Cook, politics, religion, and kingdoms collide on an earth-shattering scale. As introduced in the first book, The Tyranny of the Night, imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding humanity, while a wall of ice at the edge of the world threatens to overtake the land of the Night. Readers won’t want to miss this magical series from the bestselling author, who, in the words of Steve Erikson, “single handedly changed the face of fantasy.” Tor books by Glen Cook Chronicles of the Black Company The Black Company Shadows Linger Port of Shadow The White Rose Shadow Games Dreams of Steel Bleak Seasons She Is the Darkness Water Sleeps Soldiers Live Dread Empire Reap the East Wind An Ill Fate Marshalling At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Centuries ago, a private army’s deadly strike freed human slaves from their cruel Sangaree masters. A single Sangaree alien survived—and swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers. Generations later, his carefully mapped revenge scheme explodes as the armies of the galaxies collide along a strange burning planet’s Shadowline. In the war’s deadly aftermath, Mouse Storm makes his way towards Stars’ End, a mysterious planet bristling with deadly automated weapons systems, programmed to slaughter anyone foolish enough to approach. Mouse and fellow Confederation agent Moyshe benRabi are pursuing Starfishers, Sangaree harvestships that protect the Starfish; creatures of pure fusion energy that produce the priceless ambergris that makes travel between the stars possible. But who built Stars’ End, and why so close to the drifting Starfish? In the midst of the Sangaree wars, a far more sinister enemy approaches, coming from the depths of the galaxy, in hordes larger than a solar system. From Glen Cook, the master of modern heroic fantasy, comes his landmark space opera, a seamless blend of ancient myth, political intrigue, and scintillating space combat.

THE BLACK COMPANY - TODESSCHATTEN Der zweite Teil der Fantasy-Serie von Bestseller-Autor Glen Cook Es sind dunkle, kriegerische Zeiten... Die Söldner der Schwarzen Kompanie kämpfen im Dienst ihrer finsteren Herrin gegen die geheimnisvolle Rebellenallianz "Die Weiße Rose". Als Kompaniemitglieder ein stummes Mädchen retten, ahnen sie nicht, welches mystische Geheimnis das Kind verbirgt. Kann es einen Pfad zurück ins Licht geben, sogar für Männer wie sie? Doch um diese Frage zu beantworten, müssen sie zuerst überleben...

THE BLACK COMPANY Die Schwarze Kompanie Seit Jahrhunderten gehören die Söldner der Schwarzen Kompanie zu den Besten ihres Handwerks. Sie stellen keine Fragen und sind ihrem Auftraggeber treu ergeben. Mögliche Zweifel begraben sie zusammen mit den Toten, die sie hinterlassen. An Arbeit mangelt es nicht, denn es sind düstere, kriegerische Zeiten. Als die finstere Lady nach Jahrhunderten aus ihrem Schlaf erwacht, droht die Welt endgültig im Chaos zu versinken. Allein die Bruderschaft der Weißen Rose will sich ihr entgegenstellen, einer Prophezeiung folgend, die das Ende der finsteren Mächte vorhersagt. Doch wem wird die Schwarze Kompanie die Treue schwören? Glen Cooks Fantasy Bestseller in neuer Übersetzung!

Contiene: Primera crónica, Sombras fluctuantes y La Rosa Blanca.

«Me llamo Murgen, portaestandarte de la Compañía Negra, aunque cargo con la vergüenza de haber perdido el estandarte en combate. Me encargo de los Anales porque Matasanos está muerto, Un Ojo no quiere y pocos más saben leer o escribir. Seré tu guía durante algunos meses, o semanas, o días, lo que tarden los hombres del Maestro de las Sombras en llevar la presente situación a su inevitable final». Así escribe Murgen, curtido veterano de la Compañía Negra, que ha arrebatado el control de la fortaleza de Borrascosa a los malvados Maestros de las Sombras, señores de la oscuridad provenientes de los confines de la tierra. Ahora comienza la espera, ya que, agotada por el asedio, hostigada por la hechicería y completamente superada en número, la Compañía parece encaminarse hacia su final.

Restábamos ya solo cinco candidatos. El ídolo se había movido. Había posado el pie que había mantenido alzado, aplastando una cabeza, y ahora levantaba su otra extremidad inferior. El cuerpo del hombre que estuviera dos posiciones más allá yacía bajo la mole. Antes que la luz se hubiera apagado, la mano de la criatura apresó un puñado de huesos. En su otra mano seguía asiendo una espada, pero ahora la hoja brillaba con fuerza. La sangre bañaba los labios, la comisura de la boca y los colmillos del ídolo. Sus ojos refulgían. ¿Cómo era aquello posible? ¿Contendría en su interior alguna clase de ingenio mecánico? ¿Eran el sacerdote y su colaborador responsables de aquel asesinato? De ser así, habría tenido que actuar con increíble rapidez. Los sacerdotes parecían tan perplejos como yo.

La Compañía se vuelve a enfrentar a la batalla, la miseria y la traición en una guerra entre fuerzas mucho más poderosas. La historia nos llega una vez más de la mano de Murgen, analista y portaestandarte de la Compañía Negra, cuyos crecientes poderes para viajar en el tiempo y el espacio le aportan una perspectiva inigualable. Capitaneada por el astuto comandante Matasanos y la Dama, la Compañía trabaja para el Gobierno de Taglios; pero ni la Compañía confía demasiado en los taglianos ni viceversa. Frente a ambos se encuentra una alianza igual de inestable de hechiceros, entre los que se encuentra la diabólica Atrapaalmas, el psicótico Aullador y una niña de cuatro años que podría ser la más poderosa de todos. Como sus antecesores, ‘Ella es la oscuridad’ fusiona la magia de Tolkien, Jordan y Moorcock con el realismo de la aventura militar moderna, para contar una historia de brujería, guerra y heroísmo.

En los últimos cuatro años, ningún miembro de la Compañía Negra ha muerto en batalla. Matasanos cree que esta situación no durará mucho... Y está en lo cierto. Todavía rondan muchos de sus viejos adversarios. Narayan Singh y su hija tienen la esperanza de que llegue el apocalíptico Año de los Cráneos. Otros viejos enemigos como Sombra Larga y Aullador también están listos para atacar, pero muchos miembros de la Compañía aún se están recuperando de los quince años que han pasado en un campo de estasis. Entonces llegan noticias que avisan de otro adversario que ha vuelto a empuñar las armas. Los ataca en la Puerta de las Sombras, iniciando así una cadena de eventos que empujará a la Compañía al borde del colapso.

A nova aventura da Companhia Negra promete ser ainda mais sombria que a primeira. Após ajudar a Dama a massacrar o movimento rebelde, o grupo de mercenários deve eliminar um castelo misterioso na cidade de Zimbro. O que eles não imaginam é que no povoado também moram Corvo e Lindinha, dois antigos membros do grupo com um importante segredo. Agora Chagas, o cronista da Companhia, precisa proteger os antigos amigos e decidir a quem devotará sua lealdade – uma escolha que pode alterar os rumos do conflito para sempre. "Nesta extraordinária série, Glen Cook nos transporta para um universo sombrio, um mundo de traições e crueldade, povoado por criaturas fantásticas." - Eduardo Spohr, autor de A Batalha do Apocalipse e da série Filhos do Éden

Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night''s Falling, October''s Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collection is available as individual books.

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 new under the sun. The oldest and fiercest of the Instrumentalities has been destroyed--by a mortal. There is no new Windwalker, nor will there ever be. The world, battered by savage change, limps toward its destiny. And the ice is coming. Working God''s Mischief is the savage, astounding new novel of The Instrumentalities of Night, by Glen Cook, a modern master of military fantasy. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Quand l''ancienne maîtresse d''un roi lui demande de retrouver sa fille disparue, on tente d''enfermer Garrett à vie clans un asile de fous. Echappé de justesse, il prend l''enquête à bras-le-corps avec une paire de compagnons d''infortunes. Entre livres évanouis, magie noire, embuscades et batailles rangées, difficile de passer entre les gouttes. Mais Garrett compte sur la bonne étoile des inconscients pour démêler un écheveau où se croisent intérêts particuliers, histoire et haute politique.

The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill with their minds alone, and of the Grauken, that desperate time when intellect gives way to buried cannibalistic instinct, when meth feeds upon meth. For Marika, a young pup of the Packstead, loyal to pack and family, times are dark indeed, for against these foes, the Packstead cannot prevail. But awakening within Marika is a power unmatched in all the world, a legendary power that may not just save her world, but allow her to grasp the stars themselves. From Glen Cook, author of the Black Company and Dread Empire novels. The final book in the Darkwar series.

Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night''s Falling, October''s Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collection is available as individual books.

Garrett is a human detective in the fantastical city of TunFaire. And now he’s getting tangled up in the worst sort of laws... In-laws. Garrett is set to stow his wandering heart with his fiancée, Strafa Algarda. But for Garrett, even true love comes with its share of headaches—namely, the Algarda family. Strafa’s family needs Garrett’s unique skills in the worst way. Rumors are spreading that someone is organizing a Tournament of Swords—a brutal contest that magically compels the children of sorcerers to battle until only one is left alive. The winner will absorb the power from those he has killed and thus become a demigod. Strafa and her family want to protect her daughter, Kevans, from being forced to take part in the lethal contest...and they’ve asked Garrett to find out who is organizing the tournament and nip it in the bud. The only problem is that finding the culprit is most likely impossible. But the Algardas are used to getting what they want....

How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within fantasy’s scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying. In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting names in epic fantasy from around the world. With original fiction from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham, Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.

Qui l''eût cru ? Tonnefaire a un problème de foi. Les reliques de saint Terrell ont disparu. Garrett est en vacances, mais notre détective au pays des elfes, centaures et compagnie accepte d''aider une courtisane au passé trouble. Et le voici dans le collimateur du grand inquisiteur en personne ! Or un culte peut en cacher un autre. Une secte d''illuminés croit son heure arrivée : leur Grand Dévastateur vient prendre possession du monde. Aidé par Maya et les Sœurs de l''Infortune, Garrett ne veut pas finir en victime expiatoire. Troisième livre de la série, Pour quelques deniers de cuivre nous promène dans une intrigue politico-religieuse picaresque où l''univers imaginé par Glen Cook rappelle étrangement le nôtre.

Meet Garrett, P.I. He’s a hardboiled human detective who stands out in a crowd of elves, trolls, and other otherworldly denizens in the magical city of TunFaire. Garrett For Hire is “fantasy noir at its best" (Library Journal), collecting three novels from Glen Cook’s classic urban fantasy series. Deadly Quicksilver Lies A rich woman hires Garrett to find her missing daughter…or to act as her hitman. In TunFaire, sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference, leaving him no choice but to sift through the sex, intrigue, and murder to uncover the truth behind this case… Petty Pewter Gods With TunFaire real estate at a premium and prayer palaces at a minimum, the big gods on the block hold a contest: find the “key” to the one temple still available for worship. And when two rival pantheons try to hire Garrett to find it on their behalf, he finds himself facing the wrath of gods… Faded Steel Heat Riots between humans and non-humans have turned TunFaire into a war zone. And when a powerful gang of “human rightists” drag Garrett into the fray, he defends himself with a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy…

Fantasy heroes endure. They are embedded in our cultural fabric, dwarfing other literary figures and the mere men and women of history. Achilles and Odysseus, Gilgamesh and Beowulf. King Arthur and Robin Hood, Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes, Conan and Luke Skywalker. They dominate our legends, and tower over popular culture. The stories we tell each other begin and end with fantasy heroes, and the 21st Century is as thoroughly captivated with them as ever. From Batman to Gandalf, Harry Potter to Tyrion Lannister, the heroes of fantasy speak to-and for-whole generations. But what makes a fantasy hero? How do the best writers create them, and bring them to life on the page? In WRITING FANTASY HEROES some of the most successful fantasy writers of our time--Steven Erikson, C.L. Werner, Brandon Sanderson, Janet & Chris Morris, Cecelia Holland, Alex Bledsoe, Jennifer Brozek, Ian C. Esslemont, Orson Scott Card, Ari Marmell, Cat Rambo, Howard Andrew Jones, Paul Kearney and Glen Cook--pull back the curtain to reveal the secrets of creating heroes that live and breathe, and steal readers'' hearts. Whether you''re an aspiring writer or simply a reader who loves great fantasy and strong characters, this book is for you.