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    The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire
    The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire
    The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire
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    The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire

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    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.

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    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateNov 12, 2019
    ISBN9781597806589
    The Best of Glen Cook: 18 Stories from the Author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire
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    Glen Cook

    Born in 1944, Glen Cook grew up in northern California, served in the U.S. Navy, attended the University of Missouri, and was one of the earliest graduates of the well-known "Clarion" workshop SF writers. Since 1971 he has published a large number of Science Fiction and fantasy novels, including the "Dread Empire" series, the occult-detective "Garrett" novels, and the very popular "Black Company" sequence that began with the publication of The Black Company in 1984. Among his science fiction novels is A Passage at Arms. After working many years for General Motors, Cook now writes full-time. He lives near St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Carol.

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