Tor.com is going to be exploring Glen Cook’s beloved and awesome fantasy series, The Black Company. Starting next week, Tor.com will launch The Black Company reread, which will delve deep into this epic series, revisiting all your favorite moments. But if you’re new to this dark fantasy series, now is the time to jump in! This is gritty fantasy with aspects of military fiction and intrigue, playing out over an epic span of time.
As an incentive, for one week only, the ebook version of The Black Company, the first novel of the Chronicles of the Black Company series, is available for just $2.99. Links below, or at your preferred ebook retailer.
And join us next week for the Black Company Reread! Read the details on how Graeme Flory will break the series down and why he was inspired to tackle a reread.
I’m kind of psyched about this. I tend to favor The Black Company even more than WoT.
Is the sale supposed to be on the Omnibus as listed above or just the first book (which is what is linked). Either way I’m pretty excited to check this series out for the first time!
Just the first book in the series. Sorry about the mix-up!
No problem, just wanted to point it out!
Wohoo!
I’ve been loving the Re-reads here for a while now and you just keep coming up with all of my favourite series.
I have been a huge fan of “The Black Company” for years and was kind of hoping for new material when the Omnibus were released a while ago. The covers where amazing and I often found myself considering them for a re-read. Well I seem to have found the perfect excuse!
The Black Company is one of the most underrated fantasy series out there.
After hearing details about The Black Company during the Malazan Book of the Fallen re-read, I’ve definitely been keen to start it up. I still have a lot of books on my plate, but at some point in the next year I’ll probably catch up to this.
“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.”
Love it.
/joygasm
An excuse, any excuse, to dig out Croaker and the rest. Woohoo!
I’m super psyched about this too. Black Company were amazing books, and I really enjoy the rereads on this site for how they really pick apart some of my favourite books! Look forward to spending epic amounts of time re-exploring the Black Company books, and seeing what I have missed!
Well, cool.
Excellent. I look forward to this. For those of you who prefer listening, it’s on sale on Audible for $3.99.
Hey all, a quick update. Our rereader Graeme Flory has a new post up about how he’s going to break out the series by installments. Check it out.
Well seeing the first book as a deal lead me to amazon. Then I saw the first omnibus on amazon is just $5 more for 2 more books… and bought!
Spoiler Alert: I will kvetch about how the author takes many more pages to tell the story once they go South.
Seriously, though, this is a good idea. I look forward to it.
It’s a nice thought, but I don’t think $2.99 for an ebook is all that great a deal. If you guys really wanted to get a bunch of people invested in the re-read and to try out a series for the first time, you ought to go with .99 for a very limited time. 3 bucks is a bit too much of a commitment. A buck? I’d try that.
This wouldn’t be such an issue if it weren’t for Tor.com’s history of getting started with a ton of free books in the beginning. I ended up buying a ton of books as a result of that. $2.99, though? That’s bargain bin for a physical copy.
Not sure I understand the pricing either; $8 for the first 3 books means you’re overpaying at $2.99. Price it at free or .99 if you’re trying to give people a teaser – or discount the omnibus. (I’d give the first one away free, personally, and then expect to make it back up on the omnibus.)
Separately, thanks for selling the omnibus on ebook; I did not buy another series that was recently rereleased (by another publisher) as an omnibus edition but only for the trade paperback, charging 2x as much for the single editions on ebook. Ebook pricing doesn’t make any sense to me as it is, that just frustrated me further.
Great….no deals in UK on amazon. I really wish companies could join up the dots internationally. There is only the omnibus available, at £7.99 and the kindle version has been slated for lack of formatting/proofing! This is really frustrating as I fancied trying this for my first read along. Poooot!
I’ve been trying to get every book from book 4 onto my Kindle. But they aren’t available in Europe, from what I can see. Which makes me very sad, as I’ve never read any except books 1 to 3. :'(
Although it is not listed in the store links of the article, the book is on sale for $2.99 at the Google Play store as well.
I’m glad to hear the Cook has other fans! I’ve always thought he should be in the first ranks (I mean like Zelazny Princes in Amber, Silverberg Majipoor, Delaney Nova, Cook Black Company), but he never gets any critical attention.
His story telling is great (ok, maybe he rambles a little), his characters appealingly real, and his writing is so tight, sharp and clean, but completely colloquial.
Never mind the e-books, I buy his stuff in hardcover or trade whenever I find it. I read most of it out of second-hand bookshops and I want to make sure that he is getting a payday now for all the pleasure he has given me.
One question: Is the Black Company series finished, or could he still write more? They made it WAY beyond the South, but…
Cool Bev@21:I talked with Glen at Chicon 7 and he said that “Port of Shadows,” is a real thing and is the next Black Company novel. It will take place in the time between “The Black Company” and “Shadows Linger“.
No word on when it might be out exactly.
this offer not available from Amazon for an Australian.
From the site:
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Excellent! I always wanted to read those, and … oh, that’s right, I’m Australian, and Tor doesn’t want my money for ebooks.
@24 and 25: Here, once again, Tor is morally and legally bound to respect the rights of the author and other publishers.