![]() There is a rather gorgeous painting that many of you, I'm sure, will be familiar with. So I'm delighted to be able to say that in the case of Eisenhorn (which is the umbrella title we've given to the cycle of novels and linked short stories collected in this spiffy volume), I know exactly where the idea came from. Then, when I actually need an idea, professionally speaking, I rifle through this scrap-head resource and eventually come up with something that makes me go 'Oh, yeah, that'd work.' Except, of course, for the occasions when I find something that makes me go, 'What is that? A 'B'? What's that word? Did I write this?' I use notebooks, old envelopes, Post-its, the backs of shopping lists, the foreheads of passing children, whatever's to hand. I jot stuff down, anything, everything, as it occurs to me – yes, on trains, or planes, or sofas, or seesaws, or the queue at Tesco – so I don't lose it. Owning, as I do, a mind as reliable and watertight as the average game of Ker-Plunk!, I have learned to become something of a note-taker. Rather less quick-witted than either of them, I regularly struggle when I get asked about ideas and their origins, and usually come up with some old cobblers about 'sometimes, if I'm on a train, things just occur to me…' or 'you never know when an idea's going to hit you…'īecause you don't. In a similar vein, when asked where she got her energy from, my daughter Lily answered, 4Voolworths.' Ba-dum tish! Once, when asked where he got his ideas, David Mamet replied, 'I think of them'. ![]() Only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the Progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future These are the tales of those times.įorget the power of technology and science, for so much hasīeen forgotten, never to be re-learned. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody ![]() To BE A man in such times is to be one amongst untoldīillions. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever- present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants – and worse. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. Greatest amongst His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperors will. YET EVEN IN his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die. With power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods,Īnd master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.įind out more about Games Workshop and the world of Warhammer 40,000 at ![]() Otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. In any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bookmarque, Surrey, UK. AllĪ CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. Ltd 2000-2004, variably registered in the UK and other countries around the world. Images from the Warhammer 40,000 universe are either ®, TM and/or © Games Workshop Games Workshop logo and all associated marks, names, characters, illustrations and This omnibus edition published in Great Britain in 2004 byĬover illustration by Clint Langley, based on original artwork by Adrian Smith.īlack Library, the Black Library logo, Black Flame, BL Publishing, Games Workshop, the Backcloth for a Crown Additionalįirst published in Inferno! magazine, copyright ® 2002, Games Workshop Ltd. Missing in Action first published in Inferno! magazine,Ĭopyright © 2001, Games Workshop Ltd. Hereticus copyright © 2002, Games Workshop Ltd. Xenos and Malleus copyright © 2001, Games Workshop Ltd.
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