Título: Soldiers Live
Autor: Glen Cook
Sinopse: When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers," grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular "Black Company" novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch-22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. There is nothing else in fantasy like them. Now, at last, Cook brings the "Glittering Stone" cycle within the Black Company series to an end . . . but an end with many other tales left to tell. As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to bring about the apocalyptic Year of the Skulls. Other old enemies like Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler are also ready to do the Company harm. And much of the Company is still recovering from the fifteen years many of them spent in a stasis field. Then a report arrives of an evil spirit, a forvalaka, that has taken over one of their old enemies. It attacks them at a shadowgate--setting off a chain of events that will bring the Company to the edge of apocalypse and, as usual, several steps beyond. Glen Cook is the leading modern writer of epic fantasy noir, and Soldiers Live is Cook at his best. None of his legion of fans will want to miss it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Soldiers Live”, de Glen Cook, publicado pela editora Tor Books, em 2007 e com 528 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Tor Books
Páginas: 528
Ano: 2007
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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ISBN13: 9781429911115
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Tor Books costumam explorar universos complexos onde a ciência avançada e o fantástico se entrelaçam, criando narrativas que vão do espaço sideral a mundos medievais reinventados. As histórias frequentemente apresentam conflitos humanos intensos, seja em guerras intergalácticas, intrigas políticas ou batalhas pessoais, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas éticos e decisões que impactam o destino de civilizações. O ritmo varia entre épicos de ação e relatos mais introspectivos, com vozes narrativas que podem ser jovens protagonistas em meio a grandes eventos ou figuras imersas em mistérios sobrenaturais. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre tramas mais narrativas, focadas em personagens e emoções, e outras que aprofundam em conceitos científicos e especulativos.
