7/5/2023 0 Comments The black company first book![]() The Company is a free mercenary company with a history dating back hundreds of years. The Black Company follows the titular Black Company, more commonly referred to and otherwise referred to here as the Company. Also I was lazy and didn’t post a review on Tuesday when the book was released like I should have. But it isn’t like I was reading much adult fantasy at my tender age in 1984, so it and its peers are as new to me as a book from 1964 or 1944. I had long since owned The Black Company in mass-market paperback, but I finally cracked it open after Tor sent me a review copy of their new edition, complete with new introduction by Malazan author Steven Erikson.įirst published in 1984, The Black Company technically falls after my arbitrary cutoff for Vintage SF. ![]() Which is probably why Tor decided to reissue it (as a handsome trade paperback with a bland cover) for their “Tor Essentials” line this past Tuesday. ![]() ![]() Glen Cook’s The Black Company was a milestone work that had an outsized influence on the fantasy genre. ![]()
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