While not being a "Book of the South" itself, in later omnibuses this novel is grouped among them for convenience. For this reason this has become the most popular cited reading order among fans, stretching back to early fan websites and forums from the 1990s and 2000s in which The Silver Spike began to be referred to as "book 3.5".ĭespite this recommended reading order, The Silver Spike was actually published in September 1989, chronologically between the two Books of the South: Shadow Games (Jun. This recommended reading order wraps up the plot in the north without interrupting the distinct cliffhanger between Shadow Games and Dreams of Steel. It is then followed by Shadow Games (the "Fourth Chronicle") and the rest of the novels in their numbered order. Since The Silver Spike closes out the narrative of the characters who remained in the north, it is typically recommended that it be read immediately after The White Rose. The White Rose ends with the surviving characters splitting into two groups at a crossroads.
4.2.9 Russian novel pair (2008 AST Dragon Age 2).4.2.3 Russian novel pair (2000 AST Golden Fantasy).4.2.2 Russian (1997 AST Dragon Age Chronicles).4 Global publication and translation history.These are: the departure of The Dark Wings from Opal and, the flight of the fire-eater over the Temple of Travellers' Repose. At least two events transpire specifically in both novels, albeit from different perspectives. Many events of The Silver Spike take place concurrently with Shadow Games. However, it is not numbered as a "chronicle of the Black Company" since its narrator, Case, is a private diarist and not an official Annalist of the Company. The Silver Spike takes place within the same world and timeline as all other Black Company novels. These include Case (the narrator) Raven Darling Bomanz Silent the Limper and four newcomers called the spike thieves.
Instead, The Silver Spike wraps up the stories of those characters who remained in the north after the Battle of the Barrowland at the end of The White Rose, namely, those who did not journey toward Khatovar with Croaker. Often unofficially referred to by fans as "book 3.5", this is one of only two works in the series (the other being the short story " Chasing Midnight" published decades later) that do not directly involve the Black Company itself.
The Silver Spike by Glen Cook is a standalone novel of the Black Company series. 1990) For the talisman with the same name, see: Silver spike
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