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QUICK REVIEW: The End of Daze – Guy Haley

The first of three short 40k audio dramas making up the Prophets of Waaagh! collection, Guy Haley’s The End of Daze continues the story of Big Mek Uggrim and his Red Sunz boys. After having crashed onto a “squig’s arse-end of a planet”, Uggrim is desperate to get his beloved stompa Fat Mork back operational and walking again, but a lack of decent grots is hampering his repairs. It’s not long, however, before rival mek Grimgutz shows his face, and Uggrim realises that there’s more going on than just useless grots letting him down.

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Hereticus – Dan Abnett

The third instalment of Dan Abnett’s classic Eisenhorn trilogy, Hereticus shows us Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn in his darkest moments. Tasked with conducting a tedious series of hearings, Eisenhorn envisages endless weeks of boredom, but when evidence arises that an old enemy is nearby he drops everything and races off to a confrontation that will have horrifying consequences. Thus begins a journey that sees Eisenhorn and a handful of companions reeling and on the back foot, desperately calling on a few remaining contacts and all their determination in order to get back on track and seek out the culprit behind all their woes.

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Black Library Weekly – W/C 06/08/18

Hello and welcome to the latest instalment of Black Library Weekly, my regular look at what’s been happening in the world of Black Library. This week there’s been plenty of interesting stuff happening on the BL front, from another new audio drama on Monday to the chance to vote for some classic novels to be reprinted, so let’s jump straight in and take a look.

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RAPID FIRE: Graham McNeill Talks The Legend of Sigmar

Welcome to this instalment of Rapid Fire, my ongoing series of quick interviews with Black Library authors talking about their new releases – or in this case, with The Legend of Sigmar, a slightly older release from the Warhammer Chronicles series. These are short and sweet interviews, with the idea being that each author will answer (more or less) the same questions – by the end of each interview I hope you will have a good idea of what the book (or audio drama) is about, what inspired it and why you might want to read or listen to it.

In this instalment I spoke to Graham McNeill about his legendary Warhammer series, The Legend of Sigmar, which is available as a single-volume omnibus in the Warhammer Chronicles series. In fact, this was the first of these old-school Warhammer series to get the new omnibus treatments! It’s available to order right now, and is a great place to start if you want to dig into the stories of the World that Was.

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Adrift – Rob Boffard

A classic ‘lost at sea’ story, just set in space instead of on the ocean, Rob Boffard’s Adrift is a far-future tale of a group of people trapped in a tiny ship with little food, no comms, and nowhere to go. It’s Hannah Elliott’s first day on Sigma Station and she’s not doing great with her now job as a tour guide. After the station is attacked by a strange and powerful warship, leaving her ship – the Red Panda – stranded and alone having somehow escaped the destruction, Hannah finds herself trapped alongside a handful of strangers with little hope of survival.

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QUICK REVIEW: Klaw of Mork – Guy Haley

A 36-minute 40k audio drama set during the Sanctus Reach campaign, Klaw of Mork takes the bickering, backstabbing orkish entertainment of Engine of Mork and Evil Sun Rising and turns the volume up to eleven. Following on from the events of Evil Sun Rising, Uggrim and Snikgob are happily working away on Big Mek Mogrok’s new weapon – a traktor kannon that’s slowly pulling a comet down to the surface of Alaric Prime. After their peace is disturbed by the presence of a rival mek, it’s not long before an opportunity arises to get their own back on the annoying Dagogg.

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Monthly Highlights – July 2018

Another month, another roundup of the best stories I’ve read and reviewed over the last few weeks. Last month I had a hard time picking just one story, but while I’ve had a blast with some fantastic books, audios and short stories recently, and it’s once again been a really tough call, one in particular does stand out as a real highlight from last month. As usual, however, I’ve picked a couple more which deserve recognising as well, so I’ll talk in a bit of detail about my main highlight before quickly taking another look at the other two honourable mentions.

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QUICK REVIEW: Engine of Mork – Guy Haley

Guy Haley’s short story Engine of Mork, while labelled as an Apocalypse story, is in fact the first glimpse of Evil Suns mek Uggrim and his Red Sunz mob. In the jungle of Garbax World Uggrim, Bozgat and Snikgob are happily working away building a stompa with the only distractions being the thieving Deathskulls getting in the way and slowing them down. When Warboss Grabskab sends one of his nobs to boss Uggrim around and ‘encourage’ them to get the stompa built quicker, that only fires Uggrim up to take things into his own hands.

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The Tainted Heart – CL Werner

CL Werner’s fourth Age of Sigmar novel, The Tainted Heart is a tragic tale of two witch hunters – or agents of the Order of Azyr – bound together by conflicting ties of love, loyalty and faith. Amidst the crawling dunes of Droost in the Realm of Chamon, Esselt and Talorcan (previously seen in The Witch Takers) seek to stop an insidious cult of Nurgle from spreading any further. A tragic discovery drives Talorcan to pursue their mission with a personal sense of vengeance in mind, despite Esselt’s warnings, but it soon becomes clear that the pair’s pain is only just beginning.

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Black Library Weekly – W/C 30/07/18

Hello and welcome to the latest instalment of Black Library Weekly, my regular look at what’s been happening in the world of Black Library. This week we’ve had new audio dramas and novels, a bunch of author interviews, and even a new month’s worth of upcoming titles, so there’s been lots for Black Library fans to enjoy. Let’s have a look in a bit more detail…

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