Some Book Updates!
First, many of you have probably noticed by now that Angry Lead Skies is back in print, and was picked up by the chain bookstores (Faded Steel Heat wasn't, for whatever reason). Some of the reprint have gone back out of print, and Red Iron Nights and Deadly Quicksilver Lies have not been recently reprinted at all (again, for whatever reason). I hope that when Gilded Latten Lovers comes out this Fall, the whole Garrett series can be in print. I was at a Barnes & Noble today, and saw the new Third Printing of the paperback of A Cruel Wind. Nightshade updated the "Works of Glen Cook" page in the front of the book, and now show that the final Dread Empire volume, to be included in The Wrath of Kings, will bear the title A Path to Coldness of Heart (those, of course, are the final 6 words of An Ill Fate Marshalling). Finally, Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765306867/sr=1-1/qid=1276400204/ref=sr_1_1_oe_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276400204&sr=1-1>now has the jacket blurb up for the third Instrumentalities book, Surrender to the Will of the Night: *Piper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows **how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knows how to win wars *Piper Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation put him in danger—from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade against his old coreligionists the Praman. Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The winters are growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere, keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world. As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling lies in his common touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night. We should all have some good reading coming up by the end of the year!
Ive just been stunned by how much some of the Garrett Files books have been bringing online. I would think that a publisher would be more willing to reprint. Josh www.wdbooks.net ________________________________ From: Marc Rikmenspoel <marcrik@gmail.com> To: Glen Cook: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sat, June 12, 2010 8:43:52 PM Subject: [Glencook-fans] Some Book Updates! First, many of you have probably noticed by now that Angry Lead Skies is back in print, and was picked up by the chain bookstores (Faded Steel Heat wasn't, for whatever reason). Some of the reprint have gone back out of print, and Red Iron Nights and Deadly Quicksilver Lies have not been recently reprinted at all (again, for whatever reason). I hope that when Gilded Latten Lovers comes out this Fall, the whole Garrett series can be in print. I was at a Barnes & Noble today, and saw the new Third Printing of the paperback of A Cruel Wind. Nightshade updated the "Works of Glen Cook" page in the front of the book, and now show that the final Dread Empire volume, to be included in The Wrath of Kings, will bear the title A Path to Coldness of Heart (those, of course, are the final 6 words of An Ill Fate Marshalling). Finally, Amazon now has the jacket blurb up for the third Instrumentalities book, Surrender to the Will of the Night: Piper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knows how to win wars Piper Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation put him in danger—from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade against his old coreligionists the Praman. Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The winters are growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere, keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world. As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling lies in his common touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night. We should all have some good reading coming up by the end of the year!
Sweet Silver Blues was just reprinted, it now sells for $7.99 instead of the previous $6.99. Whispering Nickel Idols was also reprinted with this dollar-higher price a few months ago, but is now out of print again. Cold Copper Tears, Old Tin Sorrows, and Dread Brass Shadows are all out of print again too, and Red Iron Nights and Deadly Quicksilver Lies have never seen recent reprints. RIN and DQL sell for a lot of money in used copies, and ALS did, until this new reprinting. The other out of print ones aren't expensive, as many copies of the recent reprintings are still around. But this means that to order a new copy of a Garrett book, only books 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, and 12 are currently available. On a different note, I found the possible coverart for Surrender to the Will of the Night on Raymond Swanland's site. At any rate, the image has that name, so it had to at least be under consideration. We can't really post images here, but I show it on my blog <http://marcrik.blogspot.com/>. On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:31 PM, MTNMan <werewolfv2@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ive just been stunned by how much some of the Garrett Files books have been bringing online. I would think that a publisher would be more willing to reprint.
*Josh* www.wdbooks.net
------------------------------ *From:* Marc Rikmenspoel <marcrik@gmail.com> *To:* Glen Cook: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author < glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> *Sent:* Sat, June 12, 2010 8:43:52 PM *Subject:* [Glencook-fans] Some Book Updates!
First, many of you have probably noticed by now that Angry Lead Skies is back in print, and was picked up by the chain bookstores (Faded Steel Heat wasn't, for whatever reason). Some of the reprint have gone back out of print, and Red Iron Nights and Deadly Quicksilver Lies have not been recently reprinted at all (again, for whatever reason). I hope that when Gilded Latten Lovers comes out this Fall, the whole Garrett series can be in print.
I was at a Barnes & Noble today, and saw the new Third Printing of the paperback of A Cruel Wind. Nightshade updated the "Works of Glen Cook" page in the front of the book, and now show that the final Dread Empire volume, to be included in The Wrath of Kings, will bear the title A Path to Coldness of Heart (those, of course, are the final 6 words of An Ill Fate Marshalling).
Finally, Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765306867/sr=1-1/qid=1276400204/ref=sr_1_1_oe_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276400204&sr=1-1>now has the jacket blurb up for the third Instrumentalities book, Surrender to the Will of the Night:
*Piper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows **how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knows how to win wars
*Piper Hecht’s secrets make him dangerous, but his skill and his reputation put him in danger—from his enemies, who fear what he might do, or who want revenge for what he has already done; and from his friends, who want to use his military gifts for their own purposes. His sister Heris and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker. At the same time, the half-mad Empress Katrin wants him to lead the armies of the Grail Empire eastward on a crusade against his old coreligionists the Praman.
Meanwhile, all around them, the world is changing. The winters are growing longer and harder every year, and the seas are getting shallower. The far north and the high mountain ranges are going under the ice, and fast. The Wells of Power, everywhere, keep getting weaker. And the old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world. As ever, the genius of Glen Cook’s storytelling lies in his common touch: in soldiers who are like real soldiers, in men and women who love and laugh and sweat, with real hopes and real fears, united only in their determination to face the oncoming night.
We should all have some good reading coming up by the end of the year!
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There was a link on Amazon to order the new Garrett book "Gilded Lattern Bones" I was so excited, until I saw that it was a pre-order...and it won't be published for another 2 months... (want it now!) mr
I know! Already ordered mine but not until November! But found a copy of Red Iron nights to tide me over for a little while! Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: Michele Riccio <mishka_30@yahoo.com> Sender: glencook-fans-bounces@mailman.xmission.com Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:50:12 To: <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> Reply-To: "Glen Cook: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author" <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Glencook-fans] new Garrett _______________________________________________ glencook-fans mailing list glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glencook-fans
Wasn't a story by Glen recently published in a short story collection? --- On Tue, 9/7/10, Michele Riccio <mishka_30@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Michele Riccio <mishka_30@yahoo.com> Subject: [Glencook-fans] new Garrett To: glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 4:50 PM There was a link on Amazon to order the new Garrett book "Gilded Lattern Bones" I was so excited, until I saw that it was a pre-order...and it won't be published for another 2 months... (want it now!) mr -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ glencook-fans mailing list glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glencook-fans
The (new) short story Tides Elba is a Black Company tale from the vrey early days. It is in the excellent collection Swords and Dark Magic with stuff by Erikson, Lynch, Abercrombie and a whole bunch of others. ---- Matt Cutter <thorr_kan@yahoo.com> wrote:
Wasn't a story by Glen recently published in a short story collection?
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From: Michele Riccio <mishka_30@yahoo.com> Subject: [Glencook-fans] new Garrett To: glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 4:50 PM
There was a link on Amazon to order the new Garrett book "Gilded Lattern Bones" I was so excited, until I saw that it was a pre-order...and it won't be published for another 2 months... (want it now!)
mr
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On Sep 9, 2010, at 2:40 PM, jmiddle1@bigpond.net.au wrote:
The (new) short story Tides Elba is a Black Company tale from the vrey early days.
It is in the excellent collection Swords and Dark Magic with stuff by Erikson, Lynch, Abercrombie and a whole bunch of others.
Specifically, it's an interlude in the Books of the North while the Company was still in the Lady's service. And yeah, it's good. -- Michael Llaneza maserati@speakeasy.net
Was that the new black company project he was working on? Or is there more to come? On Sep 9, 2010 5:50 PM, "Michael Llaneza" <maserati@speakeasy.net> wrote: On Sep 9, 2010, at 2:40 PM, jmiddle1@bigpond.net.au wrote:
The (new) short story Tides Elba is a... Specifically, it's an interlude in the Books of the North while the Company was still in the Lady's service. And yeah, it's good.
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On Sep 9, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Timothy McNamara wrote:
Was that the new black company project he was working on? Or is there more to come?
He claims to be working on two more in the series, presumably to take place after Soldiers Live. Not that anyone would mind if he goes back to the glory days of the Company. -- Michael Llaneza maserati@speakeasy.net
Swords & Dark Magic, that's it. Does anybody know what the story in Songs of a Dying Earth was?
* On Thu 09/09/10 at 23:53, Matt Cutter (thorr_kan@yahoo.com) wrote:
Swords & Dark Magic, that's it. Does anybody know what the story in Songs of a Dying Earth was?
From an Amazon review of 'Songs of a Dying Earth': "Millions of years hence, the Sun has grown old, bloated and red and is about to go out. In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes. This is the vivid setting of Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, four books (now usually published in one volume) which now stand as one of the cornerstones of modern fantasy. Songs of the Dying Earth is an all-star 'tribute album' by some of the biggest names in modern SF and Fantasy, featuring twenty-three stories set in the Dying Earth setting. Some of the authors employ existing characters (Cugel makes several appearances and is central in Kage Baker's The Green Bird, whilst Rhialto plays a strong supporting role in Glen Cook's The Good Magician), whilst most create their own characters to explore various stories and ideas." Steve
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