Made up of innumerable billions of soldiers from a million different worlds, the Astra Militarum is, by sheer weight of numbers, the greatest army the galaxy has ever known. For ten thousand years they have used their overwhelming numbers to crush the enemies of the Imperium and defend against the encroaching horrors of a cold universe that knows only war. They hold nothing less than the survival of humanity in their hands..
Airman 3rd Class Bryn Aves is a washout, a clumsy young mechanic at an Imperial Navy airbase on the planet Rocene, forever grounded and always dreaming of becoming a flyer.
When the bloody fallout from a Heretic assault presses Aves into service aboard the Marauder bomber Griffon, the youth soon learns that the price of wearing the wings may be his life.
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AUTHOR’S NOTES:
“Wings of Bone” was originally published in issue #40 of Inferno! It will be reprinted in the forthcoming Aeronautica anthology On Wings of Blood.
As well as my story, the collection also includes “Medusan Wings” (Matt Westbrook), “Raptor Down” (Gav Thorpe), “Sturmhex” (E J Davies), “Wraithbound” (J C Stearns), “In Service Eternal” (Matt Smith), “Stormseeker” (Alec Worley), “The Emperor’s Grace” (Nicolas Alexander), “Wraithflight” (Guy Haley), “Doom Flight” (Cavan Scott), “Ancient History” (Andy Chambers) and “Acceptable Losses” (also by Gav Thorpe).
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