Empire At War

Empire At War

by Dan AbnettNick Kyme Darius Hinks and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 08/10/2022

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A Warhammer Chronicles Omnibus


A collection of novels and short stories telling the story of the Empire seat of power in the World-That-Was.


READ IT BECAUSE


This omnibus edition collects together tales of heroism and sacrifice focusing on the dour but courageous Winged Lancers of Kislev, the doughty rank and file of the Imperial halberdiers and the pious warrior-priests of the Sigmarite faith. Also included are an array of short stories, focusing on the many defenders of the Empire.


THE STORY


The Empire is the largest and most powerful realm in the Old World. Founded by the warrior-god Sigmar, it is built up of city-states and provinces that are now bound together under the rule of Emperor Karl Franz. Only through the actions of its valiant heroes has it repelled the numerous invasions brought against it. And in the far north stands Kislev, one of the Empire’s staunchest allies and the first bastion against the rampaging Chaos hordes beyond…


CONTENTS


Riders of the Dead (novel) by Dan Abnett

Grimblades (novel) by Nick Kyme

Warrior Priest (novel) by Darius Hinks

Swords of the Empire (anthology) by Various Authors

The Vampire Hunters (short story) by Robert Earl

Meat Wagon (short story) by C L Werner

The Case of the Scarlet Cell (short story) by Gordon Rennie

Rest for the Wicked (short story) by James Wallis

The Nagenhof Bell (short story) by Jonathan Green

Swords of the Empire (short story) by Dan Abnett

Shyi-Zar (short story) by Dan Abnett

As Dead As Flesh (short story) by Nick Kyme

Dead Man’s Hand (short story) by Nick Kyme

Sanctity (short story) by Nick Kyme

The Miracle of Berlau (short story) by Darius Hinks

ISBN:
9781789996685
9781789996685
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
08-10-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Black Library
Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett has written over fifty novels, including Anarch, the latest instalment in the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series. He has also written the Ravenor and Eisenhorn books, the most recent of which is The Magos.

For the Horus Heresy, he is the author of Horus Rising, Legion, The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both New York Times bestsellers.

He also script ed Macragge’s Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous audio dramas and short stories set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer universes. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

Nick Kyme

Nick Kyme is the author of the Horus Heresy novels Old Earth, Deathfire, Vulkan Lives and Sons of the Forge, the novellas Promethean Sun and Scorched Earth, and the audio dramas Red-Marked, Censure and Nightfane.

His novella Feat of Iron was a New York Times bestseller in the Horus Heresy collection, The Primarchs. Nick is well known for his popular Salamanders novels, including Rebirth, the Sicarius novels Damnos and Knights of Macragge, and numerous short stories.

He has also written fiction set in the world of Warhammer, most notably the Warhammer Chronicles novel The Great Betrayal and the Age of Sigmar story 'Borne by the Storm', included in the novel War Storm.

More recently he has scripted the Age of Sigmar audio drama The Imprecations of Daemons. He lives and works in Nottingham.

Darius Hinks

Darius Hinks is the author of the Warhammer 40,000 novel Blackstone Fortress and two novels in the Mephiston series, Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius and Mephiston: Revenant Crusade.

He also wrote the novella Sanctus. For Warhammer, he wrote Warrior Priest, which won the David Gemmell Morning Star Award for best newcomer, as well as the Orion trilogy, Sigvald and several novellas. His work for Age of Sigmar includes Hammers of Sigmar, Warqueen and the forthcoming Gotrek Gurnisson novel Ghoulslayer.

C L Werner

C L Werner's Black Library credits include the Age of Sigmar novels Overlords of the Iron Dragon and The Tainted Heart, the novella Scion of the Storm in Hammers of Sigmar, the Warhammer novels Deathblade, Mathias Thulmann: Witch Hunter, Runefang and Brunner the Bounty Hunter, the Thanquol and Boneripper series and Time of Legends: The Black Plague series. For Warhammer 40,000 he has written the Space Marine Battles novel The Siege of Castellax. Currently living in the American south-west, he continues to write stories of mayhem and madness set in the Warhammer worlds.

Gordon Rennie

Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, who has written both the comics and videogame and gaming industries since 1991 and his first published work in Blast! Magazine. He went on to creat the cult classic White Trash: Moronic Inferno, for Toxic! as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy.

For 2000 AD he created Missionary Man, Witch World and Rain Dogs, Necronauts and Caballistics, Inc. He also wrote Mean Machine and the return of Rogue Trooper. Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game as well as a nomination for the 2012 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Videogame Script award.

Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 30-year career as a journalist. He has been a working journalist since the late 1970s. The bulk of Jonathan's career has been spent in newspapers, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in a small Cook’s tour of Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age.

Jonathan left The Age in 2006 to work for the first time online as editor of Crikey. After three years there and having gained a nodding familiarity with the ways of the internet, he at last found his way to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online's The Drum. He presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National and fills in on RN Drive.

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