Author
Glen Cook
Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company, The Garret Files, Instrumentalities of the Night, and the Dread Empire series. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife. H…
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Glen Cook is the author of dozens of novels of fantasy and science fiction, including The Black Company, The Garret Files, Instrumentalities of the Night, and the Dread Empire series. Cook was born in 1944 in New York City. He attended the Clarion Writers' Workshop in 1970, where he met his wife. He currently makes his home in St. Louis, MO.
Books by this author
66 books in this view
Darkness Knows TBA ★ 8.0/10 1 anticipation rating A Pitiless Rain #4 Summer Grass TBA ★ 8.0/10 1 anticipation rating A Pitiless Rain #3 They Cry 2026 ★ 8.0/10 1 anticipation rating A Pitiless Rain #2 Lies Weeping 2025 ★ 8.0/10 1 anticipation rating A Pitiless Rain #1 The Best of Glen Cook 2019 
Port of Shadows 2018 ★ 8.0/10 1 ratings A Chronicle of the Black Company 
Wrath of Kings 2018 The Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire 
The Starfishers Trilogy 2017 The Starfishers Trilogy 
Working God's Mischief 2014 ★ 8.0/10 2 ratings The Instrumentalities of the Night #4 
Wicked Bronze Ambition 2013 Garrett, P.I. #14 
Winter's Dreams 2012 
A Path to Coldness of Heart 2012 ★ 8.0/10 2 ratings The Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire #3THE AUTHOR’S WORLDS
Book series
A Pitiless Rain4 books in this catalog2025 
The Dread Empire1 books in this catalog2009 
The Black Company (omnibus editions)4 books in this catalog2007–2010 
The Instrumentalities of the Night4 books in this catalog2005–2014 
Garrett, P.I.14 books in this catalog1987–2013 
The Last Chronicle of the Dread Empire4 books in this catalog1987–2018 
Darkwar Trilogy4 books in this catalog1985–2010 
Starfishers Universe1 books in this catalog1985 
A Chronicle of the Black Company11 books in this catalog1984–2018 
The Dread Empire (prequels)3 books in this catalog1984–2007 
The Starfishers Trilogy4 books in this catalog1982–2017 
The Dread Empire (main sequence)4 books in this catalog1979–2007 AUTHOR CAREER
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