An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat
GLEN COOK has been heralded as the godfather of modern heroic fantasy; his influence on the genre is unquestionable. But before the Instrumentalities of the Night, before the Black Company, there was the Dread Empire...
The Dread Empire, a gritty world of larger-than-life plots, nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all shown through the filter of Cook's inimitable war-correspondent prose. The Dread Empire, spanning from the highest peaks of the Dragon's Teeth to the endless desert lands of Hammad al Nakir, from besieged Kavelin to mighty Shinshan...
An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat collects all of Glen Cook's short fiction set in the vast world of the Dread Empire, from "The Nights of Dreadful Silence," featuring the first appearance of Bragi Ragnarson, Mocker, and Haroun bin Yousif to "Hell's Forge," a haunting tale of cursed pirates and strange lands, appearing here for the first time..
Also including a detailed introduction and extensive story notes by Glen Cook, An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat charts the development of this influential author and the massive, multifaceted world that he created.
Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, June 2009
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eISBN: 978-1-59780-374-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-188-1
Copyright 2009 by Glen Cook
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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"Soldier of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat" first appeared in The Berkley Showcase, Volume 2, Berkley Books, August 1980, Victoria Schochet & John Silbersack, editors. ©1980 by Glen Cook.
"The Nights of Dreadful Silence" first appeared in Fantastic Stories, September, 1973. ©1973 by Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
"Finding Svale's Daughter" appears here for the first time.
"Ghost Stalk" first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1978. ©1978 by Mercury Press, Inc.
"Filed Teeth" first appeared in Dragons of Darkness, Ace Books, November 1981, Orson Scott Card, editor. ©1981 by Glen Cook.
"Castle of Tears" first appeared in Whispers, October 1979. ©1979 by Stuart David Schiff.
"Call for the Dead" first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1980. ©1980 by Mercury Press, Inc.
"Severed Heads" first appeared in Sword & Sorceress I, DAW Books, 1984, Marion Zimmer Bradley, editor. ©1984 by Glen Cook.
"Silverheels" first appeared in slightly different form in Witchcraft & Sorcery, May 1971. ©1971 by Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc.
"Hell's Forge" appears here for the first time.
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