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You like it dark, I like it darker… Am I misunderstanding this? #PrinceofThorns by #MarkLawrence reminds me a bit of #TheBlackCompany by #GlenCook — ambivalent, brooding characters in a dark setting. Let’s see where this takes me and the Prince? So far, #FleshandBlood… #DarkFantasy #booksky #fantasy

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🫈 🚀 🌗Apr 22

Finally finished off Port of Shadows. Croaker's memory problems in it, lost Annals, & the coda "debunking" the entire story, is interesting.

Well in the top few of the series. Melancholy & frustrated as fuck.
★★★★½

Memory parallel: Cook lost a manuscript of his Dread Empire series, & wrote a below par, not the same tone, finale because of it. A Shadow of All Night Falling, the 1st book, is in my top 10 fantasy books of all time.
#bookstodon #books #fantasy #darkfantasy #glencook

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🫈 🚀 🌗Apr 16

I been reading more Glen Cook, 1-1/3 books left to go, & boy do I love One-Eye. What if you give a troll (Internet type) mid-powered sorcery & a really stinky hat & let him fester for 150 years?

The viewpoint of Croaker as Annalist is too normal-soldier, I like the weirdos like Murgen more, I think.

Crazy-ass "Papa" is great, too. Really puts the romance back in necromancer.

Anyone ever talks about "found family", hand them Port of Shadows.
#bookstodon #books #fantasy #darkfantasy #glencook

raskolnik Apr 6

Finde es ganz interessant, dass Garrett zwar auch ein Kriegsveteran ist, für das Militär aber so gar nichts übrig hat:

"I dropped my seabag into the harbor as I strutted down the gangway the day I mustered out. Tells you how thrilled I was with the life of a Royal Marine."

#GlenCook #SweetSilverBlues

Michał Bleja Jan 24

@ksiazki Pierwszy tom "Czarnej kompanii" zacząłem czytać wczoraj, skończyłem dzisiaj. Pięknie mi to weszło 🙂 #fantastyka #fantasy #CzarnaKompania #GlenCook

Remy Rose Dec 28

Book 1 of a series that was formative in my youth. Like most such things, I had to go and ruin it for myself by rereading it... This is easily the least egregious example, don't get me started on all the slurs.

#menwritingwomen #glencook @[email protected]

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Keith Dec 16

@adhdeanasl “A CARAVAN HEADED NORTH SOON FILLED THE PASS ANYWAY!”🤔🤣 #GlenCook #surrendertothewillofthenight #theinstrumentalitiesofnight

Michael Whelan Nov 24, 2025

FILED TEETH (1980)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22”

  Ace Books contacted me about doing a cover painting for one of a two-book series: DRAGONS OF LIGHT and DRAGONS OF DARKNESS. My art was to be for the second volume. 1/4

#fantasy #bookcover #illustration #anthology #glencook #dragon #acebooks