The bad news is that planets that are fit to live on are scarce-and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. As they travel from warzone to warzone in the Chaos-infested Sabbat Worlds system, the Ghosts must not only carry out the most dangerous of missions but also survive the deadly politics of the Imperial Guard. Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Founding is actually an omnibus edition of the first three Gaunt’s Ghosts novels that follows the story of the Tanith First-and-Only regiment (nicknamed the Ghosts) and their charismatic commissar, Ibram Gaunt. And if you like it, there are fourteen more books in the series. Playing the Warhammer game is not a requirement for enjoying the book, but it probably wouldn’t hurt. The heroes are always in peril, violent action erupts every few pages, and the characters are drawn with enough complexity and humanity that you actually care what happens to them.” Reportedly, the best book of all of these is Gaunt’s Ghosts: The Founding, which one reviewer called “a great airplane read. There are multiple spin-offs from the Warhammer 40k universe, including over 350 books. The game involves armies of humans, aliens, and robots spread across the galaxy. And the Trith cannot lie… But first Joe has to make it through bootcamp.Īpparently, there is a tabletop game out there called Warhammer 40,000 with a serious cult following. Once his training begins, one of the elusive and prophetic Trith appears to give Joe a spine-chilling prophecy that the universe has been anticipating for millions of years: Joe will be the one to finally shatter the vast alien government known as Congress. The oldest of the children drafted from humanity’s devastated planet, Joe is pressed into service by the alien Congressional Ground Force-and becomes the unwitting centerpiece in a millennia-long alien struggle for independence. “THE OVERWHELMINGLY POPULAR #1 BESTSELLER!!! ****ONE OF THE HIGHEST-RATED MILITARY SCI-FI NOVELS ON AMAZON!!***”ĭespite this overly enthusiastic hard sell, Forging Zero is a good, fast-paced “you are the chosen one” adventure with well-drawn characters.ġ4-year-old Joe Dobbs is in a post-apocalyptic universe following a massive alien invasion of Earth. The description of this book starts with the sophisticated subtlety of a weasel that just burrowed though a grain silo of cocaine: Those who love schlock that stops just short of parody will be delighted. All of the preceding came from a forum on the internet, so it must be true.įirst-time novelist Gunn, a Brit who’s served his country by undertaking mysterious military or espionage “assignments,” delivers a hilarious far-future shoot-’em-up featuring a flawless antihero… Those looking for hard-bitten military SF will be disappointed. There are internet rumors that there is no real David Gunn: instead, his real name is possibly John Courtnay Grimwood and he’s never served in any military capacity.
It’s interesting to note that the multiple attempts to contact David Gunn, his publisher, his agent, or any of the number of companies he’s associated with have all failed (attempts by others, not by me). Sven knows he is a pawn, and pawns have a bad habit of being sacrificed.īut Sven is nobody’s sacrifice.
There he finds himself in the midst of a military disaster, one that will take all his courage–and all his firepower–to survive.īut an even deadlier struggle is taking place, a struggle that will draw the attention of the United Free. Armed with a SIG diabolo–an intelligent gun–and an illegal symbiont called a kyp, Sven is sent to a faraway planet, the latest battleground between the Uplifted and OctoV. Perhaps it is these unique abilities that bring Sven to the attention of OctoV.ĭrafted into the Death’s Head, the elite enforcers of OctoV’s imperial will, Sven is given a new lease on life. Perhaps that “something else” explains how quickly he heals from even the worst injuries or how he can communicate telepathically with the ferox, fearsome alien savages whose natural fighting abilities regularly outperform the advanced technology of their human enemies. Sven possesses a fierce if untutored intelligence and a genetic makeup that is 98.2 percent human and 1.8 percent.
Sven Tveskoeg, an ex-sergeant demoted for insubordination and sentenced to death, is a vicious killer with a stubborn streak of loyalty.
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