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Glen Charles Cook – amerykański pisarz fantasy i science fiction.

Wychował się w północnej Kalifornii. Zaczął pisać w siódmej klasie. Marzył, by zostać pilotem Phantoma F-4, ale ostatecznie trafił do oddziałów specjalnych US Marine Corps . Wojskową karierę podjął syn Glena, natomiast autor przez kilkadziesiąt lat pracował w różnych fabrykach koncernu General Motors. Uczęszczał na Uniwersytet Missouri i warsztaty dla pisarzy Clarion. Pierwszy utwór opublikował w 1970.

Doświadczenia ze służby w armii przenosi na karty swoich książek .

Sam mówi o sobie: W przeciwieństwie do większości pisarzy, nie wykonywałem żadnego dziwnego zawodu jak np. skubanie kurczaków. Moim jedynym pracodawcą jest od lat General Motors. Ze względu na zmianę położenia zakładu, Glen ograniczył pisanie od 1988 roku. Następnie przeszedł na emeryturę i całkowicie poświęcił się pisaniu.

Jako swoje hobby, Cook wymienia zbieranie znaczków, książek oraz historię wojny. Glen Cook jest częstym gościem konwentów.

Najbardziej znany z cyklu dark fantasy o przygodach bractwa najemników – Czarnej Kompanii. Popularność przyniosła mu również seria detektywistyczno-sensacyjna w klimatach fantasy o detektywie Garretcie. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Lipiec 1944
Glen Cook Fotografia
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Glen Cook słynne cytaty

„Pamięć jest pewnego rodzaju nieśmiertelnością. Nocą, kiedy wiatr ustaje i cisza włada równiną lśniącego kamienia, pamiętam. A oni wszyscy znów żyją.”

Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: Czarna Kompania, tłum. Jan Karłowski

„Fortuna to niestała dziwka zwariowana na punkcie ironii.”

Glen Cook

Cień w ukryciu (1984)

„Kim, u diabła, jesteście? – zapytał ochrypłym szeptem. – Czarna Kompania, Chłop. Czarna Kompania. Nie wiem, jak mu się to udało, ale pobladł jeszcze bardziej.”

Glen Cook

Cień w ukryciu (1984)

„Kim, u diabła, jesteście? – zapytał ochrypłym szeptem.”

Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Czarna Kompania, Chłop. Czarna Kompania. Nie wiem, jak mu się to udało, ale pobladł jeszcze bardziej.
Cień w ukryciu (1984)

Glen Cook: Cytaty po angielsku

“You might have noticed that the human animal is fond of forming and clinging to prejudices, remaining their steadfast curator in the face of all reason and contradiction.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 42 (p. 155)

“Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself.”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 7, “The Second Letter” (p. 476)

“The light overcame the shadow. But as always, the shadow left its taint on the victors.”

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 43, “Picnic” (p. 645)

“How to argue with sociopathic reasoning? Lisa was the heart of Lisa’s universe. Other people existed only to be exploited.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 29, “Juniper: Payoff” (p. 346)

“Smeds did not like it. It was getting complicated. He did not like things complicated. Trying to untangle them usually made things worse.”

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Glen Cook książka The Silver Spike

Źródło: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 28 (p. 541)

“Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 55 (p. 466)

“I must be driven. I figured that as long as I had to stay out there I ought to keep scouting around. Working in my sleep. Ought to have the Old Man double my pay. How much is two times a stab in the back?”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 70 (p. 523)

“His problem is, he gets an idea in his head and he can’t get it out if it’s wrong, no matter what evidence you hit him with.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 55 (p. 405)

“Blade muttered, “Makes as much sense as the story of any other god. Meaning it don’t.””

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 261)

“Are lovers ever honest?”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 5, “Chains of Empire” (p. 31)

“That was not supposed to happen. It was unthinkable, supposedly. And for ordinary people that was mostly true. But not so at a level where men began to believe that they existed outside the usual rules.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 28 (pp. 107-108)

“Rage is a red, near-animate force, as bloated with compassion as a starving serpent.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 101 (p. 270)

“I do not worship any gods myself, though I guess some are real in their own ways. I have to believe that all of them get regular belly-laughs because one of them was ingenious to create human sexuality. Even greed and lust for power do not come close to generating the stupidities that us being male and female do.
But by giving it half a thought I can think of as many glories that spring from the same dichotomy.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 98 (p. 266)

“I grinned. “The unwritten law of all armies, Captain. The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It’s the mortar holding an army together.””

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 5, “Harden” (p. 138)

“Cruel, cruel tricks of the Adversary. I had been gifted with a mind that wanted to explore, to find out, to know. And I had been gifted with faith. And now I had been gifted with information that put fact and faith into conflict. I had not been gifted with a priest’s slippery dexterity when it came to reconciling the philosophically irreconcilable.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 96 (p. 348)

“My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 32, “Juniper: Visitors” (p. 365)

“I told her I could not believe in her movement because it did not promise anything for the future except freedom from the tyranny of the past. I told her that what little philosophy I’d detected driving the movement totally ignored human nature. That if the Rebels ever did manage to topple the empire, whatever replaced it would be worse. That was the lesson of history. New regimes, to make sure they survived, were always nastier than the ones before them.”

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Glen Cook książka The Silver Spike

Źródło: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 36 (p. 561)

“Krage eyed us from a face of stone. “I help you with something, Inquisitor?”
“Probably not. You’d lie to me if the truth would save your soul, you bloodsucker.”
“Flattery will get you nowhere. What do you want, you parasite?”
Tough boy, this Krage. Struck from the same mold as Bullock, but he had drifted into a socially less honored profession. Not much to choose between them I thought. Priest and moneylender.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 14, “Juniper: Duretile” (p. 283)

““Can you read?”
I nodded.
“Rules are posted over there. You got two choices. Obey them. Or be dead.””

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 28, “To the Barrowland” (p. 576)

“We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 95 (p. 614)

““When you get back to Taglios now, Master, you can establish a mighty reputation by explaining the myths in the words of a being who lived through their creation.”
Santaraksita smiled sourly, “You know better, Dorabee. Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into perceived truths of the soul.”
He had a point. In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
And that is a truth upon which you can rely.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 97 (pp. 351-352)

“The essence of sorcery, even for its nonfraudulent practitioners, is misdirection.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 8, “Tally Close-Up” (p. 243)

“It looks like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every single branch on the way down.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 396)

“There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 23, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 448)

“It is a chance to flit off and double-check my memory, which I have found to be astonishingly unreliable.
Apparently none of us really remember anything exactly the way it happened. And often the divergence is proportional to the amount of ego and wishful thinking we have invested.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 90 (p. 243)

“And there is no time. There is a war on.
Always there is a war on.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 1 (pp. 9-10)

“Those soldiers hacked and slashed. Their faces were distorted with the horror of their actions but they were out of control, far past the point where they could stop. The flicker of firelight made everything seem more hellish and surreal.
I had seen this before. I had seen my own brothers this way, a few times, back in the north. The blood smell takes control and kills the mind and deadens the soul and there is nothing human left.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 71 (p. 197)

“But, no. It was too late. Fortune’s die was cast. The cruel game had to be played to its end, no matter what anyone wanted.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 104, “Taglios: View from the Protector’s Windows” (p. 676)

“You can be screamingly blind to the obvious if you don’t realize that you have not opened up all the doors of your mind.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 83 (p. 298)

“We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 104 (p. 652)

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