![]() So, when Glen Cook announced that he would be publishing his first new Black Company novel in seventeen years, one would certainly have hoped for something that lived up to the genre-breaking days of yore. You can see the impact of Cook’s contribution to fantasy literature in the works of authors like Steven Erikson, to name but one great author. ![]() Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.” Steven Erikson, the author of the renowned Malazan Book of the Fallen series is most often quoted regarding Cook, saying that Cook “single-handedly changed the face of fantasy … He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. ![]() ![]() There are very few authors who have revolutionised a literary genre like Glen Cook did for fantasy fiction. When it was announced that Glen Cook would be penning his first new The Black Company novel in seventeen years the hype was, understandably, at fever pitch. ![]()
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