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When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end ... but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field. Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.… (más)
En los últimos cuatro años, ningún miembro de la Compañía Negra ha muerto en batalla. Matasanos cree que esta situación no durará mucho... Y está en lo cierto. Todavía rondan muchos de sus viejos adversarios. Narayan Singh y su hija tienen la esperanza de que llegue el apocalíptico Año de los Cráneos. Otros viejos enemigos como Sombra Larga y Aullador también están listos para atacar, pero muchos miembros de la Compañía aún se están recuperando de los quince años que han pasado en un campo de estasis. Entonces llegan noticias que avisan de otro adversario que ha vuelto a empuñar las armas. Los ataca en la Puerta de las Sombras, iniciando así una cadena de eventos que empujará a la Compañía al borde del colapso.
When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end ... but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field. Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond.
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Todavía rondan muchos de sus viejos adversarios. Narayan Singh y su hija tienen la esperanza de que llegue el apocalíptico Año de los Cráneos. Otros viejos enemigos como Sombra Larga y Aullador también están listos para atacar, pero muchos miembros de la Compañía aún se están recuperando de los quince años que han pasado en un campo de estasis.
Entonces llegan noticias que avisan de otro adversario que ha vuelto a empuñar las armas. Los ataca en la Puerta de las Sombras, iniciando así una cadena de eventos que empujará a la Compañía al borde del colapso.