With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy — something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. … - Steven Erikson
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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy — something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. But there are other anguishes, many others. They unfold as they will, and to dwell within them is to understand nothing.
Most bravery, dear little one,’ he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, ‘is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
