Yeah, I'm familiar with the fan-theft-manuscript story. (As an aside, one of my tasks after inventing a time machine it to go back and counter-filch that manuscript from the thief.) Coldness just ended so abruptly I suspected a file problem. And I've never seen a physical copy of the book for comparison. -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 12/19/16, Marc Rikmenspoel <marcrik@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [Glencook-fans] Further thoughts on A Path to Coldness... To: "Matt Cutter" <thorr_kan@yahoo.com>, "Glen Cook: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author" <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, December 19, 2016, 12:41 PM That's right. Glen originally had 3-4 more Dread Empire books he planned to write, before the already-written future material was stolen around 1989. He knew An Ill Fate Marshalling ended on a cliffhanger, and that readers wanted resolution. So what Glen did was to condense parts of 3-4 books into 1, to give readers a taste of how it would have continued, and resolve the conflict of Bragi's fate. In Glen's universes, there's always more story to tell. All of his series are "incomplete" in one way or another. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Matt Cutter via glencook-fans <glencook-fans@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: Glen's writing style has always been rather abbreviated. I think it's a product of the genres he rights and the styles in vogue when he started writing. (A lot of mid/late 70s SF reads very similarly.) But Coldness seems to end really abruptly. It's almost like I didn't get the full book. I got the Baen ebook version back when Nightshade was still solvent. It ends with: "Varthlokkur fell asleep before he could ask where, thinking that that old devil always had one more trick. But today they had played a few of their own and had gotten several steps ahead." Is that right? ______________________________ _________________ glencook-fans mailing list glencook-fans@mailman. xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/ cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ glencook-fans