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I might have ended last time on a down beat note, but with the world thoroughly left in tatters after Alien, Drug, and Climate breakdown apocalypses, we have finally broken through into the much more fun and light-filled world...

Warhammer Crime has been doing some interesting things recently, and we're clear fans of the concept over at Goonhammer towers. Moving away from space battles and wizards and the ever-lengthening clash of superhuman v different superhuman seemed like a...

I don't know about you lot, but occasionally I like to read that the world could, infact, get worse. There's a certain comfort in hard times you can get by reading the world not just slightly, but impossibly, apocalyptically...

Lancer is, according to the back of the rulebook, anyway, “a mud-and-lasers tabletop roleplaying game of modular mechs and the pilots that crew them.” Set thousands of years in humanity’s future, the people of Earth have come together to...

  Aaron "Lenoon" Bowen was lucky enough to sit down and chat to author, reenactor, Sisters of Battle Canoness and totally excellent human Danie Ware for an interview on writing for the Black Library, Sisters and representation in the hobby. Aaron:...

Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter was the most successful campaign ever, and we're taking a look at the swag boxes for fans of the Cosmere. Starting with Month One: Hoid.

I paint a lot, and that means I burn through a lot of audiobooks. I'm also a sucker who will buy any book with a dragon on the front cover, a weakness that has done me wrong more than...

Welcome back! This month we're taking a full on dive into Science Fiction written by Women, because while it won't shock any of the no doubt wise and worldly readers of goonhammer dot com, there are plenty of people...

If there's something that far too many people in the western world loved in the late 20th century, it's the 1950s. The 1950s exert a real and pressing pull on the cultural world we live in and "Ok Boomer"...

Wraithone Phoenix is author Alec Worley's first full-length novel for the Black Library, after a series of shorter stories in the 40k universe. It's also the first full length outing for Baggit and Clodde, our Ratling and Ogryn protagonists for Wraithbone Phoenix after an outing in audiodrama Dredge Runners. Wraithbone Phoenix is a fun, pulpy crime caper that manages to balance a series of homages, set pieces and a wild cast of underhive style criminal elements with the flair and verve of a hardboiled detective novel.