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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

“Half of confidence is the appearance of confidence.”

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Glen Cook Dreams of Steel

Źródło: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 17 (p. 287)

“Being an old cynic myself I have strong notions about the true value of human gratitude. It is a currency whose worth plunges by the hour.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 95, “Fortress with No Name: Down Below” (p. 654)

“Nobody knew what the Company wanted. Various witnesses assigned motives according to their own fears. Few came anywhere near the mark.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadows Linger

Źródło: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 368)

“She wasn’t satisfied with the way things turned out. What the hell can you do with women? You can give them exactly what they ask for and they’ll cuss you because that ain’t what they really want.”

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Glen Cook książka The Silver Spike

Źródło: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 38 (p. 569)

“Beneath my breath I continued my conversation with God. As usual, He did not trouble Himself to defend His Works to me. My fault for being a woman.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 84 (p. 302)

“She did not seem offended, so I added my secret philosophy of life: any dork who became a soldier for an idea instead of the money deserved to die for his country. You’re going to put it all on the table, six up with some other guy, it damned well better be for stakes you can carry away.”

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Glen Cook książka The Silver Spike

Źródło: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 36 (p. 560)

““Given time we would have become less than indispensable and you would have started looking around for a way to shaft us instead of doing the honorable thing and paying us off and simply terminating our comission.”
“That’s what I love about you, Croaker. Your unflagging faith in humanity.”
“Absolutely. Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent,” I grumped.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 11, “A March into Yesteryear” (p. 54)

““I still got all my limbs and I’m still breathing.”
“Makes you a winner in the soldiering game.””

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 78 (p. 550)

“There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 11; opening paragraph)

“He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.”

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Glen Cook książka The Silver Spike

Źródło: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 528)

““It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.””

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 103 (p. 650)

“It is a saying of my people. Even Water sleeps. But Enemy never rests.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 79 (p. 554)

“For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.”

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Glen Cook książka Bleak Seasons

Źródło: Bleak Seasons (1996), Chapter 66 (p. 187)

“Somebody a lot smarter than me once said, “Put no trust in wizards.””

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 78 (p. 550)

“Not dangerous at all. Not even that lucky. But a sufficiently paranoid mind will discern patterns and threats where only fortune has conspired.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 30 (p. 112)

“And there went some good old-fashioned wishful thinking, Sleepy. We were talking about human beings. If there is any way to be contrary, unreasonable and obnoxious, human beings are sure to find and pursue it. With verve and enthusiasm at whatever might be the most inconvenient time.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 85 (p. 308)

““Used to be” is not worth the breeze on which it is scribbled.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 2, “An Abode of Ravens: When the Baobhas Sang” (p. 368)

“He had a distinct problem imagining minds working differently from his own.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 314)

“I reminded myself that Khang Phi is bereft of arms. That the monks abhor violence. That they always yield to strength, then seduce it with reason and wisdom.
Yes, sometimes it does take a while.”

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Glen Cook książka Soldiers Live

Źródło: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 15, “The Land of Unknown Shadows: The Secret Masters” (p. 422)

“Leadership tip: Sound confident even when you have no idea. Just do not make a habit of it. They will find you out.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 313)

“He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 3, “Raker” (p. 79)

“He jumped down, started waving his arms around while he went to squeaking and squealing in one of those languages wizards use so the rest of us will think there is something terribly strange and mystical about what they do, kind of like lawyers.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 41 (p. 412)

“The soldiers stumbled forward doggedly, cursing the bite of the wind while reminding one another that generals are seldom of sound mind and unbesmirched ancestry. They would not be generals if they were.”

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Glen Cook książka She Is the Darkness

Źródło: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 334)

“Slight gasp. “You grow too bold.”
Didn’t I? “I’m sorry. Thinking out loud. An unhealthy habit known to be the cause of bruises and major hemorrhaging.””

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 49, “The Invisible Maze” (p. 666)

“Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?”

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Glen Cook Czarna Kompania

Źródło: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 4, “Whisper” (p. 115)

“The staff came to enquire after my needs. They were revolting in their obsequiousness.
A disgusting little part of me gobbled it up. A part just big enough to show why some men lust after power. But not for me, thank you. I am too lazy. And I am, I fear, the unfortunate victim of a sense of responsibility. Put me in charge and I try to accomplish the ends to which the office was allegedly created. I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 6, “Opal” (p. 34)

“Peace had broken out and was being enthusiastically exploited on the presumption that it could not possibly last.”

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Glen Cook książka Water Sleeps

Źródło: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 59 (p. 206)

“Never underestimate the power of human ingratitude.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 30, “Taglios Aroused” (p. 156)

“Willow, if the gods thought half as much of you as you think of yourself, you’d be king of the world.”

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Glen Cook książka Shadow Games

Źródło: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 7, “Smoke and the Woman” (p. 39)

“I said, “I am a soldier, grown old and tired and confused. I have been fighting since before you were born. And I have yet to see anything gained.””

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Glen Cook książka The White Rose

Źródło: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 12, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 506)

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