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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy__omething a lot of people didn__ notice and maybe still don__. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.
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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy__omething a lot of people didn__ notice and maybe still don__. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

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