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_…>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!
Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&fi…>still
shows An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat as being released in
paperback on July 13. However, I found it for sale today in north Jersey.
Nightshade released the Starfishers volumes ahead of projected release
dates, so this isn't a surprise, but it was still a nice discovery. I bought
a copy on the spot, instead of my usual Amazon purchase, since I'm eager to
read the stories and didn't buy the hardcover that wouldn't match my other
paperback Glen Cook books on the shelf.
