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RAPID FIRE: Ian St Martin Talks Of Honour and Iron

Welcome to this instalment of Rapid Fire, my ongoing series of quick interviews with Black Library authors talking about their new releases. 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 new 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 Ian St. Martin about his new 40k novel Of Honour and Iron, which is available to order right now!

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QUICK REVIEW: The Armour of Fate – Guy Haley

Set between the events of the Rise of the Primarch background book and his novel Dark Imperium, Guy Haley’s short story The Armour of Fate is a rare action-free 40k story, but an absence of fighting allows for plenty of insight. When he was restored to life by the combined skills and knowledge of Belisarius Cawl and Yvraine, Roboute Guilliman was told that if he ever removed the life-giving Armour of Fate, he would die. After years of confinement within the armour, and long study of its workings, Guilliman is determined to remove it anyway, and reclaim his own fate.

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QUICK REVIEW: A Company of Shadows – Rachel Harrison

Following on from the fantastic Execution, Rachel Harrison’s short story A Company of Shadows sees the 11th Antari Rifles evacuating a city besieged by the forces of Chaos. When the Valkyrie carrying Commissar Severina Raine, a handful of troopers and an important military advisor is shot down before they can reach safety, it’s up to Raine and the decidedly untrustworthy Antari Sergeant Wyck to find a way to survive. With all of them carrying injuries, enemies all around, and Wyck twitchy at having cheated death for a second time, things look bleak for Raine and the Antari.

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QUICK REVIEW: The Waaagh! Faker by Guy Haley

In The Waaagh! Faker by Guy Haley, the final instalment of the three-part Prophets of Waaagh! story, Uggrim and Bozgat are hard at work keeping Fat Mork walking so that they can join in with the Waaagh! as it gathers momentum. Snikgob and Talker, however, aren’t so sure it actually is a Waaagh! so decide take a closer look at just what’s causing a strange noise and weird ork behaviour. There they find a bunch of sneaky humies playing around with some strange technology, and realise that this isn’t a natural Waaagh! but an artificial one – it’s a humie trap!

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RAPID FIRE: Chris Wraight Talks The Lords of Silence

In this instalment I spoke to Chris Wraight about his new 40k novel The Lords of Silence, which sees him turn his attention to the Death Guard. You can order The Lords of Silence right now!

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QUICK REVIEW: Playing Patience – Dan Abnett

Set between Hereticus and Ravenor, Dan Abnett’s short story Playing Patience introduces us to the character of Patience Kys and shows how she came to be part of Ravenor’s entourage. On dismal Sameter, three sisters live austere lives in the Kindred Youth Scholam, and the eldest – Patience – has both a particular gift and a knack for getting in trouble. Meanwhile Ravenor and his companions, reeling from a desperate setback, are on the hunt for clues that might set them back on track. The trail leads to the Kindred Youth Scholam, some unwholesome practices, and an untrained, unlicensed psyker.

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QUICK REVIEW: Bozgat’s Big Adventure – Guy Haley

The second short audio of Guy Haley’s Prophets of Waaagh! collection, Bozgat’s Big Adventure follows on from The End of Daze and sees the titular Bozgat setting off in search of his madboy friend/pet Talker. Accompanied only by the grot Frikk, Bozgat rides out across the dunes and finds his way to a crashed ork ship, where the tracks of a single ork lead. While the cowardly Frikk waits for him outside, Bozgat explores the crashed ship which, upon further examination, appears to be surprisingly devoid of actual orks. Plenty of grots, though…

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QUICK REVIEW: The Curiosity – Dan Abnett

First published in 2003 in Inferno! magazine, Dan Abnett’s short story The Curiosity offers the first glimpse of Valentin Drusher, magos biologis. After seven years of determined study, Drusher’s work to create a complete taxonomy of Gershom’s indigent flora and fauna is almost complete. Dispatched to a bleak, distant province to investigate sightings of an unknown beast that’s left a trail of corpses behind it, it’s not long before he realises this is more than just an apex predator he somehow missed. Caught up in the hunt for the beast, Drusher is out of his league and in terrible danger.

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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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