Dan Abnett Interview – part 2
At last, part two of my interview with Dan Abnett which, as was hinted at in part 1, takes the form of a Skype conversation between us. I really enjoyed our conversation and feel that the content of, and revelations during, our dialogue will hopefully compensate you for the occasional interruption by my squeaky chair…a [...]
Battle of the Fang by Chris Wraight – review
Though not billed as such, this book is the last part of an unofficial trilogy. Battle of the Fang effectively bridges the story begun in McNeill’s A Thousand Sons and Abnett’s Prospero Burns to the ‘present’ of the 40K universe. A thousand years has passed since the bloody end of the Horus Heresy, and the [...]
Blood Reaver by Aaron Dembski-Bowden – review
Let’s be clear: My mancrush on Dembski-Bowden is well established. I love his writing. His characters tend to have the sort of depth normally associated with the classics, and his action scenes and ability to convey moments of heart-stopping drama give me warm fuzzy feelings in all the right places. Blood Reaver has forced me to add [...]
GrimDark III: Warhammer Race War!
Now we’ve done the overview, let’s get into the crunchy stuff. Let’s start a Race War. Or rather, let’s talk about the race war already in progress, since that’s the heart of 40K’s conflict. Given the insane amount of possible detail when discussing the races that make up the 40K galaxy, you’re gonna have to [...]
Dan Abnett – interview – part 1
For me this is the interview to end all interviews. It’s not often one gets to interview a personal hero; I suspect this is mostly because heroes don’t enjoy mopping up fanboy drool, and frankly, who can blame them? This is going to be a little different from my other interviews, because while the others [...]
GrimDark II: Loose Canon
To: Aaron Dembski-Bowden Subject: Space Marine Power Armour Dear Mr. Dembski-Bowden, In your novel ‘I Remember When I Totally Puked That Time’, you said that power armour functions by X going into Y. But in Dan Abnett’s novel ‘Writhing in Unholy Chutney’, he said power armour functions by A going into B. Both of these [...]
Back to the Future…with a Warhammer
I The Appeal of Getting Your Ass Kicked Back when I was a kid, in that era of willing vulnerability when we’re all sponging up ideas and inspiration to form our adult tastes, I saw something in the sci-fi genre that really stood out. In hindsight, I’m sort of proud of myself for noticing it, [...]
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie – Review
At last, the holy grail of Warhammer 40k fans the world over has arrived–a 40k movie! Penned by the master himself, Dan Abnett, produced by Codex Pictures and directed by Martyn Pick, it tells a quintessential 40k tale from the perspective of the Space Marine golden boys, the Ultramarines. Special mention must go the voice [...]
Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie trailer
For honor. For glory. For victory. Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie trailer hits the web thanks to the folks at Empire, and if you wasted a lot of time on the classic RPG growing up, you’ve got to be more than a little pissed off that those of us who never picked up a paintbrush [...]
Aaron Dembski-Bowden – Interview
Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a new author for The Black Library, Games Workshop’s publishing arm. Though only three novels into his Black Library writing career, he has fast developed a devoted following of both die-hard Warhammer 40K fans and people only recently brought into the fold. His radical approach to writing and his outspoken and uncensored [...]
Helsreach by Aaron Dembski Bowden – review
Helsreach is the second book in the new Space Marine Battle series published by Black Library, and the third novel of author Aaron Dembski Bowden. This series is meant to explore the most epic Space Marine battles in the history of the 40k universe and is therefore focused on what’s rather delightfully known in the [...]
Soul Hunter by Aaron Dembski Bowden – review
Let me start by saying that this isn’t a book I would normally pick up. It tells a dark tale from the perspective of what I’ll call the “bad guys.” I could not conceive of a sympathetic “bad guy” character, someone or someones whose story I would care about. However, what prodded me to break [...]
