It's Games Day UK today, a big event in the calendar for fans of the worlds of Warhammer.
The
NIA in Birmingham is going to be packed with gamers and readers and
sundry other folk from Games Workshop and Black Library; but not me,
sadly.
I'm disappointed I couldn't be there this year, as 2013
would have marked my 10th consecutive Games Day event in the UK as a
Black Library author, from my first visit back in '03 after writing my
first story for Inferno! magazine.
Still, even though I'm not around, my stories are - readers can pick up a copy of Space Marines: Angels of Death,
an exclusive anthology featuring a compliation of all the 1000-word
eBook short stories that have been coming out all this month over at the
BL website.
My contributions are a Blood Angels tale called "The Fury" and "Vigil", a Doom Eagles story.
Of course, if you can't make it along to the event, the stories are still available as individual digital downloads, and the Angels of Death series concludes today with "Vigil".
To purchase an eBook of "The Fury", click Here.
To purchase an eBook of "Vigil", click Here.
It's a been a good year for giant monsters and the echoes of fictional
mass destruction, so perhaps it is no surprise that a project like the
short story anthology Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters came about. The debut release of gung-ho small press Ragnarok Publications,
it's recently been the subject of a successful KickStarter campaign,
funded to it's launch target and now - with just 9 more days left to go -
well on the way to blasting through all of its stretch goals.
Kaiju Rising
has a whole bunch of talented folks writing for it, including my Black
Library colleagues Josh Reynolds, Clint Werner and David Annandale, as
well as names like Larry Corriea, Peter Clines, James Lovegrove, Erin
Hoffman... hell, even Mike Maclean, the scriptwriter behind Dinocroc vs Supergator and Sharktopus, so you know it's gonna be monster-tastic.
When
I heard about the anthology, I knew immediately it was something I
wanted to be involved in; giant monsters have always been part of my
sci-fi landscape, from my first exposure to the kaiju phenomenon as a
kid watching my hometown get trashed by Gorgo, and the AMT/Ertl Gigantics model
kits that sent freakishly large bug-monsters stomping through cities.
Thanks to project creators J.M. Martin and Nick Sharps, I've dusted off
my membership card for the Church of Godzilla and taken up the
mantle of 'stretch goal' author for the anthology, joining Kane Gilmour,
Howard Andrew Jones and Peter Stenson as extra content creators for the
project. If the Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters KickStarter can make it past $14,000, I'll be penning an original story based on a popular kaiju franchise.
Check out the official KickStarter page right Here - and you too can help cancel the apocalypse...
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Previously, I mentioned the launch of the Angels of Death
series from Black Library - a set of 1000-word Space Marine "flash
fiction" stories being released all this month in the run-up to Games
Day UK 2013....
...and I'm pleased to announce that my short story "The Fury", featuring the Blood Angels chapter, is now available for digital download direct from Black Library's website, for just 99p!
The Black Rage lurks at the heart of every Blood Angel, a dread fury beneath their civilised surface.
In
the midst of battle, one of Sanguinius’s sons teeters on the edge of
oblivion, a heartbeat from damnation in the grip of his Chapter’s curse.
Will he fall into that blood-soaked abyss or retain his humanity?
To download a copy, click Here.
Here's September's 'Coming Soon' update on my future projects and events:
Space Marines: The Omnibus - A Warhammer 40,000 collection featuring reprints of my stories "The Returned" and "Heart of Rage". September 10th
"The Fury" - A Warhammer 40,000 eBook short story featuing the the Blood Angels. September 15th.
The Horus Heresy: Signus Daemonicus - French language edition of my Horus Heresy novel Fear to Tread. September 27th.
Space Marines: Angels of Death - A Warhammer 40,000 anthology for Games Day 2013 featuring reprints of my story "The Fury" and a new Doom Eagles tale "Vigil". September 29th
Deus Ex: The Fall - action-adventure videogame for Android platforms, featuring characters from my Deus Ex novel Icarus Effect. October.
Star Trek The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice - Kindle eBook edition of my Star Trek novel for Pocket Books, volume #4 in Star Trek: The Fall miniseries. November 26th.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut - re-release of new uprated edition of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, including The Missing Link DLC and much more, for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. November.
Star Trek Marathon Weekend - I'll be doing a talk, Q&A and signing at The Ritz Cinema in Lincoln during their weekend-long screening of all 12 Star Trek movies, from The Motion Picture to Into Darkness. November 30th - December 1st.
Star Trek The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice - Paperback edition of my Star Trek novel for Pocket Books, volume #4 in Star Trek: The Fall miniseries. December 26th.
The Horus Heresy: Signus Daemonicus Der Engel Fällt - German language edition of my Horus Heresy novel Fear to Tread. December 12th.
Warhammer 40,000: Schwarze Flut - German language edition of my Warhammer 40,000 novel Black Tide. March 6th 2014.
Blake's 7 The Liberator Chronicles: The Hard Road - Part of Big Finish's upcoming Blake's 7 audio box-set series. TBC 2014.
The cover artwork for my latest novel The Poisoned Chalice, the fourth book in the Star Trek: The Fall miniseries has now been officially released, along the with back-cover blurb, and it's looking very cool...
That's the U.S.S. Titan in Earth orbit, the ship designed by Sean Tourangeau and rendered here by Tobias Richter. It pleases me no end that I've got what a true-blue iconic Star Trek cover - a sleek starship over a planet!
The Fall books kicked off last month with David R. George's Revelation and Dust, to be followed by Una McCormack's The Crimson Shadow, David Mack's A Ceremony of Losses, my novel and then the finale with Dayton Ward's Peacable Kingdoms.
The five-book series covers a sixty day period in which the United
Federation of Planets suffers a tragic attack and its explosive
political fallout...
Here's the blurb:
One simple act, and the troubles of the United Federation of Planets have grown darker overnight.
The
mystery behind the heinous terrorist attack that has rocked the
Federation to its core grows ever deeper, and William Riker finds
himself beset by rumors and half-truths as the U.S.S. Titan is ordered back to Earth on emergency orders from the admiralty.
Soon,
Riker finds himself drawn into a game of political intrigue, bearing
witness to members of Starfleet being detained—including people he
considered friends—pending an investigation at the highest levels.
And while Riker tries to navigate the corridors of power, Titan’s
tactical officer, Tuvok, is given a series of clandestine orders that
lead him into a gray world of secrets, lies, and deniable operations.
Who can be trusted when the law falls silent and justice becomes a quest for revenge?
For the crew of the U.S.S. Titan, the search for answers will become a battle for every ideal the Federation stands for...
Star Trek: The Fall - The Poisoned Chalice will be available in eBook and paperback from the 26th of November; to pre-order a copy, click Here.
This year marks the 31st year of the Golden Joysticks Awards, the awards voted on by the public for the best games of 2012-2013 - and I'm proud to say that Deus Ex: The Fall has been nominated in the Best Mobile Game category.
Deus Ex: The Fall
is out now on iOS for Apple devices and it'll be available for Android
hardware by the end of this month; it's a first-person shooter with RPG
elements set in the world of Deus Ex, and it features characters from my novel Icarus Effect and a storyline that ties in with Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
I worked on The Fall's
script with developers Eidos Montreal and N-Fusion, and I'm hoping
it'll make a good showing at the GJAs - and you can help make that
happen by visiting the awards site Here at Computer And Videogames and clicking the 'Select' button to vote for Deus Ex: The Fall - so please vote early, vote often! Please note, you have to register at the CVG site for your vote to count...
It's UK Games Day at the end of the month, the big annual event for the worlds of Warhammer, and as part of the run-up Black Library are releasing one flash fiction short story per day for the princely sum of 99p.
Each story in the Angels of Death
series centres around one chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, the Space
Marines of the Imperium of Man - as I write this the first two are
already available, Graham McNeil's Ultramarines tale 'Codex' and 'Death Speakers',
a story featuring the Executioners chapter by Andy Smilie. The short
stories will feature not only the first founding chapters, but also some
of the lesser-known successors, from writers across the Black Library
stable.
I've written two stories for the Angels of Death series
- one featuring the Blood Angels and one featuring the Doom Eagles -
and I'll be updating the blog with more on those when they are released.
For now, check out the portal page Here and come back each day for more tales of war and heroism in the 41st Millennium...
