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Warhammer Adventures: Claws of the Genestealer AND Secrets of the Tau – Cavan Scott

Cavan Scott’s Warped Galaxies series continues to impress (and entertain) with books two and three – Claws of the Genestealer and Secrets of the Tau. With the necron Hunter taken care of (for now, at least), Zelia, Talen, Mekki and Fleapit search for a way off the snow-bound planet they find themselves stranded on, before braving the unfamiliar confines of a frontier space station. With dangers all around, from lethal aliens to the elements themselves, they need to put their differences aside and find ways to work together if they’ve any hope of finding their way to safety, and a distant rendezvous with Zelia’s mum.

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Warhammer Adventures – The Adventures Begin

Back in May 2018 Black Library announced the first details for Warhammer Adventures, a new range of novels aimed at younger readers. Fast forward to February 2019 and the first two books are in stores and available to download online – Warped Galaxies: Attack of the Necron by Cavan Scott and Realm Quest: City of Lifestone by Tom Huddleston. There’s been plenty of conversation along the way, from the community’s initial thoughts about the idea through to news about famous names narrating the audiobooks, but now that I’ve read the first two books I thought I’d do a quick recap of the range’s purpose and talk a little about what these stories are actually like.

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Warped Galaxies: Attack of the Necron – Cavan Scott

The Warhammer 40,000-set Warhammer Adventures series Warped Galaxies (for readers aged 8 and above) opens with Cavan Scott’s Attack of the Necron, a planet-hopping tale of action, danger and bravery in the face of an ancient alien menace. Zelia Lor and her mother, along with Lexmechanic Erasmus and young Martian tech-savant Mekki, travel the galaxy excavating ancient technology and unearthing pre-Imperial history. When their latest expedition is curtailed by a devastating alien invasion, Zelia finds herself torn from her familiar life and thrown into a perilous journey through the void of space with the relentless Necron threat looming ever-present.

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Realm Quest: City of Lifestone – Tom Huddleston

Tom Huddleston’s Age of Sigmar series Realm Quest – part of the Warhammer Adventures range of stories for younger readers – kicks off with City of Lifestone, which introduces us to 14 year-old Kiri. After escaping from a life of slavery Kiri sets off alone in search of the city of her birth – Lifestone – where she hopes to find a new start. Things don’t quite work out how she hoped, and she’s soon being hunted by skaven and begrudgingly caught up with a strange group of children and their mentor, who tells her of a mysterious purpose for which she’s been chosen.

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Warhammer Adventures – What’s All the Fuss About?

In a move which seems to be causing quite a stir online, the Warhammer Community site has announced the release of a brand new range of books set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes and aimed at readers aged 8 to 12 – Warhammer Adventures. They’re not going to be released until 2019, and specifics are still thin on the ground, be we do know various bits of information.

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