James Swallow
Author of The Flight of the Eisenstein
About the Author
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Works by James Swallow
Death and Defiance: The Traitor's Gambit - The Horus Heresy Anthology Novella Hardcover (Warhammer 40,000 40K 30K) (2014) — Contributor — 12 copies
Deus Ex: Fallen Angel 5 copies
Relics (Warhammer 40,000) 3 copies
Redeemed (Blood Angels) 3 copies
The Steppes of Thoth 1 copy
Wings of Bone {short story} 1 copy
Marc Dane Series 6 Books Collection Set By James Swallow (Nomad, Exile, Ghost, Shadow, Rogue, Outlaw) (2022) 1 copy
Commando Number 5531 1 copy
Dan Dare: The Red Moon Mystery — Scriptwriter — 1 copy
Blood Debt (Blood Angels) 1 copy
Associated Works
Distant Shores: A Tenth-Anniversary Celebration (Star Trek: Voyager) (2005) — Contributor — 135 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1969-05-06
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Kent, England, UK - Occupations
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- Works
- 135
- Also by
- 49
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- 5,160
- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.6
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This book is bloody brilliant and seriously one of Swallows crowning achievements of his great, if vacillating in quality, work with Black Library. It's incredible how many things are still just being introduced and expanded upon, which are handled wonderfully. Swallows dynamic writing in dramatic and action moments is impressive, as is his ability to get really weird and gross with the Nurgle stuff without going too far.
This continues to be a mythic foundational narrative with avatars of archetypes playing their parts, but with a level of individuality and immediacy that I love from these kinds of works.
I had planned to go back and give False Gods, Galaxy in Flames, and this a more in depth look as I did with Horus Rising, as well as taking a break to catch up on some other reading, but I am absolutely on the grips of the worst pain, fatigue, and conversion symptoms flare up I've had in years, so I can barely think or move a lot of the time.
Plan is to charge on with the saga using the suggested order from https://www.heresyomnibus.com, tackling each omnibus in order which, means I have a few stories to catch up with before getting to Fulgrim.
If you've made it this far, yeah you've read some of the best books in this series and from Black Library and the quality might start to vacillate quite wildly from here on, but there is so much more phenomenal stuff here and I'm excited and determined to cross the Rubicon.… (more)