It's been rumored for a while, but the folks at Tor Books made it official! Glen Cook is returning with a brand new story arc for the Black Company. Lies Weeping is the first installment in a new series coming out next fall.
Here's the blurb:
From the godfather of Grimdark himself, LIES WEEPING is the first book in a brand new arc of Glen Cook's groundbreaking Chronicles of the Black Company series!
The Black Company has retreated across the plain of glittering stone, toward a shadow gate that would let them trade the dangers of the plain for the questionable safety of the Company’s one-time haven on Hsien, a region in the world known as the Land of Unknown Shadows.
In Hsien, the company returns to their former base, An Abode of Ravens, where the Lady ages backwards in a return to force, shaking off the thrall, one breath at a time. Meanwhile, Croaker, ascended to godlike status as the Steadfast Guardian, has been left behind in the Nameless Fortress.
In their adopted father’s stead, Arkana and Shukrat have taken up the role of annalist for the Black Company. At first, life in Hsien appears quiet, even boring, but it is quickly apparent that strange goings on are more than what they seem, and it's up to them to discover the truth hidden in the shadows of this strange land.
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Hmm... When I look at the four Black Company omnibus editions on my shelf, it's like looking at one of those memes where the drawing of the horse starts out amazing and is a total chicken scratch by the end- just a slow decline as the series went on, so much so, that I still haven't read that one-shot from a few years back that I recall you panned. Can't help but wonder which end of that spectrum this will fall on.
Yes, Port of Shadows was bad. Keeping my fingers crossed that this new series will be better, more like the first Black Company books and not like the last few.
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