Originally Posted by Black Library:
They grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that Hammer and Bolter issue 1 went on sale, back in the golden age when the Soul Drinkers still had more Space Marines than you could fit in a Mini and Kindle was something you did to start fires.
We’ve come a long way since then. Loads of you read your Black Library novels in eBook formats and bits of Soul Drinker are scattered across several start systems.
Today Hammer and Bolter, our monthly eBook magazine, is one year old. To celebrate, issue 13 is a bumper birthday issue filled with almost twice the normal content, including audio extracts, previews, short stories, and the first chapter of a new serialised novel. Here’s a close look at some of the content.
Reparation - The first Warhammer 40,000 story by Andy Smillie features two Space Marines trapped in the fighting pits of Commorragh. Gladiatorial, to-the-death Space Marine action? Yes please.
Extract from Deliverance Lost – Gav Thorpe’s new Horus Heresy novel, following the characters established in the audio drama Raven’s Flight. In this extract we see why, even after Corax’s escape from Isstvan, his Legion is far from safe.
Dead Calm - Josh Reynolds’ short story following a knight in the service of Myrmidia, goddess of war, in the most disreputable and dangerous city in the Old World: Marienburg.
Lesser Evils - Tom Foster’s debut Black Library story, about and Inquisitorial task force extracting a prisoner from a high security facility. Who doesn’t love prison break stories?
Audio extract from The Outcast Dead – Listen to the first chapter of this new novel and see the secrets of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica begin to unfold. If you enjoy the extract, you can download the whole fifteen-and-a-half hour audiobook here.
Hunted - An Imperial Guard squad stalks tau fire warriors on a contested world in this short story by Braden Campbell. Expect tension, bloodshed and action.
Perhaps most excitingly of all, Hammer and Bolter 13 contains the first chapter of our new serialised novel, Gilead’s Curse by Nik Vincent and Dan Abnett. It follows a wandering elven warrior who first appeared in the tale ‘Gilead’s Blood’, published way back in 2001, and will run across the next 12 issues of Hammer and Bolter.
. Reperation by Andy Smillie is another one I'll be looking out for.
