Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/She Is the Darkness

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The result was keep‎. – Joe (talk) 10:09, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

She Is the Darkness[edit]

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Only refs are publishers, distributors, goodreads, etc. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 16:59, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 16:59, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria says:
A book is presumed notable if it verifiably meets, through reliable sources, at least one of the following criteria:
1. The book has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries, bestseller lists, and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book.
Sources
1. MacLaurin, Wayne (October 1997). "She Is The Darkness: A Novel of the Black Company". SF Site. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The review is listed here by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. The review notes: "I invite you to journey with Croaker, The Lady, One-Eye, Soulcatcher and Longshadow and the rest of the most bizarre collection of mercenaries and villains ever conceived. If you've read the others, She Is The Darkness is a great ride. If you want to experience what the Black Company is, I strongly recommend you start at the beginning. Like all great, complex stories, this one is just too confusing to jump in mid-way."
2. Bird, Colin (March–April 1998). "She Is The Darkness" (PDF). Vector. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The review is listed here by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. The review notes: "It's difficult, as always, to review the second volume in a fantasy sequence when one is unfamiliar with the backstory, but in this case Cook's She Is the Darkness is anything but a plot-choked middle volume. Cook is no prose stylist and the scatalogical modern dialogue is a bracing change from the normal off-the-shelf archaic dialects that so many fantasy writers use without thinking."
3. "She Is the Darkness". Kirkus Reviews. 1997-07-15. p. 1074. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The review is listed here. The review notes: "... whose evil plots unfold against a landscape so bleak and blasted by war and magic that readers can't help but wonder where, for instance, the Company's food comes from, or who can afford to pay them. Fascinating, no doubt, for the fans; all but impenetrable to outsiders."
4. "She Is the Darkness". Publishers Weekly. 1997-09-22. p. 74. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The review is listed here. The review notes: "The distinctively non-Western flavor of much of the mythology is also welcome. Large parts of the book read like a collaboration between Michael Moorcock and the late John Masters, dean of historical novels of the British Raj. Indeed, the book offers virtually anything a fantasy reader could ask for, except a coherent narrative that stands on its own."
5. White, Bill (April 1998). "She Is the Darkness review from Voice of Youth Advocates". Voice of Youth Advocates. p. 53.
  The review is mentioned in an advertisement here and in an Encyclopedia.com article here. The review notes: "[Cook] describes the villany of the Company's antagonists with extraordinary power ... fans of the Black Company will relish this novel."
6. "Cook, Glen 1944–". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The article notes: "Volume two of the "Glittering Stone" series, She Is the Darkness, once again takes up the tale of the Company as the group moves closer toward discovery of its mystical origins when it reaches the city of Khatovar. It becomes a race against time once the Company's demonic enemies begin to kill off members as a way of preventing those origins from being revealed. Bill White, in Voice of Youth Advocates praised the novel's "complex and sophisticated story," and noted that the author "describes the villainy of the Company's antagonists with extraordinary power." Roland Green in Booklist called She Is the Darkness "wrenchingly realistic in both the details of war and the emotions of the characters.""
7. Green, Roland (1997-09-15). "She Is the Darkness". Booklist. Vol. 94, no. 2. p. 216. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18 – via Gale.
  The review notes: "Wrenchingly realistic in both the details of war and the emotions of the characters and drawing eclectically but intelligently on dozens of different elements, the book still doesn't constitute a smooth narrative, simply because there are, after six preceding Black Company yarns, so many characters and elements that only devout followers of the saga possess the knowledge to make full sense of it. But those followers are numerous."
8. ""She Is the Darkness" comes to Iranian bookstores". Tehran Times. 2019-08-13. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  The article notes: "She Is the Darkness, the 7th novel in the The Black Company dark fantasy series written by American author Glen Cook, has recently been published in Persian by Tandis Publications in Tehran."
9. Non-independent coverage:
  1. Flory, Graeme (2013-09-16). "The Black Company Reread: She is the Darkness". Tor.com. Archived from the original on 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
    The book was published by Tor Books, which is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, which owns Tor.com, so this magazine article is not independent. The review notes: "Having made it through She is the Darkness, I’d say that things are kind of back on the right track (in more ways than one). If Bleak Seasons was Crossroads of Twilight (trying to draw stuff together but not a lot actually happening) then She is the Darkness is Knife of Dreams (an unwieldy cast is prodded into moving towards a conclusion); there’s good stuff happening but it is slow work getting there… ... She is the Darkness is one hell of a slog to get through, for me anyway, as Cook really captures that long drawn out feeling of a siege that is going nowhere fast."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow She Is the Darkness to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 09:01, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources listed by Cunard. Article does need improvement, but AfD is not cleanup. ResonantDis_tortion 21:33, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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