The Black Company

Mai-Kero

So I started reading Glen Cook's Black Company series, and was enjoying it a lot until I got to the last book of the second collection (Tales of the South) and found that it was a spin-off. As in, 2/3s of the way through, the main story stops, and he just has a spin-off finish the collection. What the fuck. I really want to find out what happens in the main story though, so I looked online and found four more books in another collection.

So far I've gotten the first two, Chronicles of the Black Company (Collects the first three books), and The Books of the South (Collects the second two and the spin-off).

The last set is supposed to be called "The Books of the Glittering Stone" but I can't find it online anywhere, just the individual novels, and they're all sold out or prohibitively expensive ($40 for a mass-market paperback or $110 for a hardcover).

Does that mean that the last four haven't even been published yet in a collection? Does anyone know if they're going to be? The first two sets are from Tor but I can't find any information at all about the third collection.

Orogogus

Are libraries an option in your area? I've only read the Glittering Stone books, which were available individually through my local branch library.

Mai-Kero

Orogogus wrote: »

Are libraries an option in your area? I've only read the Glittering Stone books, which were available individually through my local branch library.

The second one is available, the first is not

I could probably find them all within an hour's drive to other libraries, but I've got other stuff to read too. I'm just going to be pissed if I don't find out what happens.

Nobody

I honestly don't remember ever coming across the last set in a compilation. I'm shocked that the individual books are so expensive though, as I come across them every now and then at normal paperback prices when I go to Borders or Barnes.

Steev

Mai-Kero wrote: »

Orogogus wrote: »

Are libraries an option in your area? I've only read the Glittering Stone books, which were available individually through my local branch library.

The second one is available, the first is not

I could probably find them all within an hour's drive to other libraries, but I've got other stuff to read too. I'm just going to be pissed if I don't find out what happens.

Check and see if your library has the ability to request it from another library branch. At my library we can request books from another branch in our system, and we can also do interlibrary loan where we can get a book from another library system. I'm in Florida and we've gotten books from as far as Seattle before -- of course when we're going that far, it's usually something really obscure.

Adda

The first two sets of books have very recently seen reprints in two collections of 3 books. Hopefully this means that they are lookgin to relase the last ones at some point as well.

Published by Gollancz in the uk so it may be worth getting in touch with them to see if this is the case. website on the back of the books listed as orbitbooks.co.uk