Description: Praise for The Heirs of Babylon " A loving reissue . . . this early work is much more than a mere curiosity. "-- B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog Praise for Glen Cook " Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy --something a lot of people didn't notice, and maybe still don't. Reading his stuff is like reading Vietnam War fiction on Peyote ." --Steven Erikson, author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series "Over the past 25 years, Cook has carved out a place for himself among the preeminent fantasy writers of his generation . . . . His work is unrelentingly real, complex, and honest . The sense of place that permeates his narrative and characters gives his 'fantasies' more gravitas and grit than most fictions set in the here-and-now ." -- New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer " A master realist of the imagination ." -- Locus " Glen writes a mean book ." --Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files "These books, like so many of Cook's series, are epic in scale but intimate in focus . . . Cook is a brilliant writer ." -- The Green Man Review , on A Fortress in Shadow " One of the defining fantasy series ever written . Glen Cook's writing is a great flood that washes fantasy tropes and clich's away and in their place we are given three novels that make us reflect on what it means to be human. . . . On more than one occasion I found chills running down my spine. Words don't do these novels justice ." -- The Ostentatious Ogre on A Cruel Wind "Glen Cook is the author of some of my hands-down favorite books . I hold out his Black Company series as arguably the best military fantasy ever written . The early Garrett books set a standard for the blending of fantasy and hardboiled fiction." -- Black Gate " One of Cook's strongest storytelling traits shines through, his ability to cast no judgment and show the opposing sides of a conflict with honesty, empathy, and resonance. " -- SFFWorld, on A Fortress in Shadow "Glen Cook is a rare beast of a writer --he can vacillate between military fantasy, space opera, epic fantasy, mystery, and science fantasy with great ease. His writing is often marked by a purity; that he is depicting life in its most real sense, from the thoughts in a character's mind to the wind rushing across his or her face ." --Rob H. Bedford, sffworld.com , on Darkwar " Cook's talent for combining gritty realism and high fantasy provides a singular edge ." -- Library Journal , on Water Sleeps " Cook provides a rich world of assorted races, cultures, and religions; his characters combine the mythic or exotic with the realistic, engaging in absorbing alliances, enmities, and double-crosses ." -- Publishers Weekly, on Bleak Seasons " New and innovative . [Cook] blends the urban, intimate, slightly seedy tradition of sword & sorcery with the pastoral, epic, expansive tradition of heroic fantasy . . . this is the book that injected a shot of realism into the genre, and helped steer it on the course towards modern so-called "gritty" fantasy. " -- Strange Horizons , on Chronicles of the Black Company " Glen Cook changed the face of the fantasy genre forever . . . and for the better ." -- Fantasy Book Review , on The Black Company

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