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NEMESIS Collector’s Edition

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The ongoing hardcoverfication of Black Library’s epic Horus Heresy saga continues apace, and with it this month comes the 3rd of my novels for the series and the 13th overall, the assassin drama Nemesis…


You can pick up editions of Nemesis in the original paperback version, in digital eBook format, as an audiobook read by Jonathan Keeble and now in the hardback “collector’s edition”, which includes additional illustrations and an afterword by me.

All versions are available at the Black Library website Here, where you’ll also find audio, epub and mobi file extracts.

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NOMAD hardcover reveal

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I’m just posting this ‘cos I can; check out the hardcover of my forthcoming thriller novel Nomad, due for release on June 2nd….


MECH: Age of Steel is ALIVE!

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Back in July last year I mentioned plans for MECH: Age of Steel, a giant-robot themed anthology in the pipeline (five by five) from the gang at Ragnarok Publications – with whom I previously worked on their 2013 short story collection Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters – and I’m now pleased to say that the Kickstater campaign for the book is underway!

I’ve always loved mecha – from the early days of stuff like the Megaro Zamac model kits and Micronauts toys, through to anime like Robotech, Mobile Suit Gundam, Metal Armor Dragonar, Patlabor, Martian Successor Nadesico, Neon Genesis Evangelion and right up to date with Pacific Rim – so it was a lot of fun for me to write “Toy Soldier“, my original military SF tale for this collection.

I also get to join an all-star strike team of authors for MECH: Age of Steel; edited by Tim Marqutiz and Nick Sharps, along with me M:AoS will feature stories by my Black Library colleagues Graham McNeill and C.L. Werner, as well as Kevin J. Anderson & David Boop, Jody Lynn Nye, Peter Clines, Jeremy Robinson, Martha Wells, Jeffrey J. Mariotte & Marsheila Rockwell, J.C. Koch, Mark Teppo, Ramez Naam & Jason M. Hough, Jeff Somers, Anton Strout, Bill Fawcett, Shawn Speakman, M.L. Brennan, James R. Tuck, Jennifer Brozek, Kane Gilmour, Mallory Reaves, Andrew Liptak and Steve Diamond.

The book has two great covers (see below) – the blue/sliver one is for the paperback/ebook/retail edition and the “cherry blossom” version is a Kickstarter exclusive.

MECH‘s Kickstarter runs through until Friday May 13th 2016, and we’re already past the 30% funded figure after the first 24 hours! If you’d like to sign on, check out the official KS page Here, where you’ll find full details of the pledge levels and perks available.

You Are Hearing Me Talk…About Star Trek & Videogames

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I’ve been busy on a bunch of writing projects over the past couple of weeks, so I’ve been slack on posting some new bits up here on the blog – to redress that balance, here are some linkys to a few interviews I did last month…


First, check out episode 142 (“Star Trek Vs. Godzilla“) of Trek FM’s Literary Treks books and comics show, where I talk with Dan Gunther and Matt Rushing about my new classic Star Trek novel The Latter Fire. Click here to stream the show.

You can also find me talking about Star Trek, games and a bunch of other stuff on episode 229 of the G & T Show live podcast from the start of the show to the 1:45 mark. Click here to listen.

And lastly, I’m here discussing videogames (specifically the recently released mmo-shooter-rpg hybrid The Division) on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Game On show. Click here to listen.

The Silent War

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As we move into the next phase of the Horus Heresy saga, Black Library have been working to make sure all the shorter pieces of fiction will be available in dead tree form to everyone who wants them; the War Without End collection will be hitting in a few months time (learn more about that book Here), but toward the end of 2016 that will be joined by The Silent War, an anthology of tales about the secret missions that underpin the entire Horus Heresy series; check out the badass hero team-up on the cover below…
 


While loyalist and traitor forces clash on a thousand battlefields across the galaxy, a very different kind of war is being fought in the shadows. Rogal Dorn and his Legion prepare to defend the Solar System against the armies of Warmaster Horus, even as Malcador the Sigillite charges his many agents and spies with missions of the utmost secrecy. The future of the Imperium is being shaped by unseen hands…

The Horus Heresy: The Silent War will contain fourteen stories by me, Chris Wraight, John French, Anthony Reynolds and many more.

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The Complete Cyberman

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Back in 2005, m’colleague Nick Briggs (Doctor Who writer, actor and voice of many of the galaxy’s greatest bad guys) wrote an audio miniseries centered around one of the Doctor’s most iconic monsters – the Cybermen. In a darker story without the timelord involved, Cyberman was a science-fiction political drama in four episodes and it was popular enough that a second volume was planned. 
 
But being the super-busy guy he is, Nick couldn’t find the time to write Cyberman 2, so that gig was offered to me in 2009. I got to pick up where Nick’s story left off and write a taut thriller about invasion, occupation and radicalization – and it remains one of my favourite pieces of work.
 


And so, it’s great to see that Cyberman: The Complete Series 1 & 2 is returning in a compilation edition in May; you can read the official press release over at the Big Finish website Here, or click Here to pre-order the box-set on CD or digital formats.