Description

The Fear Empire, a world of bigger-than-life plots, country-shattering turmoil, frustrating secret, strange creatures, and uncooked, flawed characters, all proven through the filtration of Glen Cook's inimitable war-reporter writing. The Dread Empire, comprising from the greatest mountains of the Dragon's Teeth towards the limitless wilderness countries of Hammad al Nakir, from trapped Kavelin to great Shinshan, the Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, with its courageous, disguised troops, referred to as the Devil Shield, An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat gathers all Glen Cook's short fiction occur the huge earth of the Dread Empire, from "The Evenings of Terrible Stop", featuring the first appearance of Bragi Ragnarson, Mocker, and Haroun container Yousif, towards the culture-clashing novella "Gift of an Empire Unacquainted with Defeat"; from "Silverheels", Cook's first published work of fiction, to "Hell's Forge", a haunting story of cursed pirates and strange countries, appearing here for the very first time. Additionally including an in depth introduction and comprehensive history notes by Glen Cook, A Kingdom Unacquainted with Beat maps the growth of the important American writer and the huge, diverse world he produced.