![]() ![]() ![]() I've been arguing for some time that somebody ought to do a proper study of this saga. ![]() But over the years GW fiction itself has been the subject of a saga of gamers and business suits, of orthodoxies and heresies, of Stakhanovites and rebels, of collapses and recoveries, of intriguing lost possibilities, and of struggles for literary freedom in an 'owned universe'. Today GW publishes new and reprinted fiction - great mountains of it, in fact - under its 'Black Library' imprint. Since that beginning there has been published a whole string of books, magazines and comics, set in the universes of the highly successful war games and role-playing games marketed by Games Workshop (GW). ![]() That's the first line of 'Geheimnisnacht' by William King, the first story in the first book of Warhammer fiction, the anthology Ignorant Armies, published in 1989. '"Curse all manling coach drivers and all manling women," muttered Gotrek Gurnisson, adding a curse in Dwarvish. Unpublished and lost: Violent Tendency by Eugene Byrne, completed manuscript lost when the writer's Amstrad PCW died. The final book of the "Demon Download Cycle", "United States Calvary", was promised in the back of Comeback Tour but never produced. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |