I never managed to do so and it wasn't until comparatively recently that I actually read The Black Company.
That intrigued me at the time and I tried to find the book to see what all the fuss was about. Alas, I can no longer find the specific reference, but I nevertheless recall Gary's effusive praise for the novel. Cook's first novel, 1984's The Black Company, was one that Gygax recommended in a contemporaneous "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" column. This was a question frequently put to Gary Gygax in numerous online forums and his response was generally the same: there are only a handful of post-1979 authors whose works he admired and considered in the same vein as he saw D&D - and Glen Cook was among that august company. Surely some of them must have been written whose characters, themes, and situations were consonant with those that inspired Gygax and Arneson, right? Nevertheless, in the 30 years since the first appearance of the famed appendix, a lot of fantasy stories have been written. I've never seen this as a damning critique, given my contention that Dungeons & Dragons was written to broadly emulate the characters, themes, and situations of pre-mass market pulp fantasy literature. One of the frequent criticisms of looking to Appendix N for inspiration is that all of its books were written before 1979, most of them by a decade or more.
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