Hugh Cook

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Hugh Walter Gilbert Cook was born on 9 August 1956 in Billericay, Essex. He spent his early childhood in England, moved to Ocean Island (now Banaba) in Kiribati in 1962, and to New Zealand in 1964, where he was educated. He served ten years in the New Zealand Army as a medic, reaching the rank of sergeant, and published his first novel, Plague Summer, in 1980. He left the army to write full time. Chronicles of an Age of Darkness was written between 1986 and 1992; planned as sixty volumes, it stopped at ten because of disappointing sales. In 1997 he moved to Yokohama, Japan, where he taught English, and from 1998 to 2005 he published mainly through his own website. In 2005 he was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and wrote a medical memoir, Cancer Patient. He died on 8 November 2008 in a hospice in Auckland.

Universe(s)

Books

• The Wizards and the Warriors (1986) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Women and the Warlords (1987) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Wordsmiths and the Warguild (1987) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Walrus and the Warwolf (1988) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Wicked and the Witless (1989) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Wazir and the Witch (1990) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers (1990) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Werewolf and the Wormlord (1991) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster (1992) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon
• The Worshippers and the Way (1992) · Chronicles of an Age of Darkness Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 10 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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