Water Sleeps

Name: Water Sleeps
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780312859091

by Unknown Author

4.1

(8 ratings)

412 pages1999TorISBN 9780312859091

Fiction Fantasy

About this book

For years, Glen Cook's Black Company series has built a major audience among fantasy fans. Beginning as paperback originals in the 1980s, continuing in hardcover in the 1990s, this epic of warfare between sorcerers and demigods, all told from the "worm's-eye" view of the soldiers and functionaries who fight for them, has riveted a generation of readers. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them.Now Cook brings the latest cycle of the epic to a major climax, as the survivors of the disaster at the end of She Is the Darkness regroup in Taglios. Determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, they journey there under terrible conditions, arriving just in time for a magical conflagaration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new worlds gained and lost -- all at a terrible price.

Publication Details

Publisher: Tor
Published: 1999
Pages: 412
ISBN: 9780312859091
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Glen Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, best known for his series *The Black Company*, a dark military fantasy that follows the adventures of an elite mercenary unit, and *Garrett P.I.* about a hardboiled detective in a fantasy world, blending elements of mystery and fantasy. Born in New York City, he grew up in northern California and served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1972. He attended the Clarion Writer's Workshop in 1970, which helped launch his writing career. His first published novel, [*The Heirs of Babylon*][4], was published in 1972. After his military service, Cook worked at a General Motors assembly plant while writing prolifically. His works are celebrated for their gritty realism and historical complexity, influencing many in the fantasy genre. [Steven Erikson][5] has noted that Cook's work significantly impacted the genre by removing the stereotypes and cliches that were previously inherent in it, and introducing real, human characters and believable situations. He resides near St. Louis, Missouri. (Sources:[1][1],[2][2],[3][3]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook [2]: https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Glen-Cook/biography.html [3]: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13026.Glen_Cook [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17597447W [5]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1394250A