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Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: End of Centuries

If history ended when the Berlin Wall fell, it started again in early September 2001. The long nineties, with their pretence of peace and stability for Western Europe and NATO, turned out to have been simply a period of...

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: Only Getting Better

The long trans-atlantic nightmare of Reaganothatcherite Economics is over. The Long Grey Man has fallen. There's a not-actually-new way of doing things in town and it's pretending, quite successfully, to look nothing like the old way at all. Noel...

Goonhammer Reads: The First World War

Summer 2024 marks the 110th anniversary of the cataclysmic events that led to World War I. Despite being one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century, WWI has not achieved nearly as much representation on the tabletop...

Goonhammer Reads Scifi: Goin’ On Dune

It’s very possible that you’ve recently been out to see a movie that’s kind of about a guy called Paul, though it’s really about how cool worms are. Dune 2 has hit, and with it a whole tranche of...

Goonhammer Reads: Master and Commander

This article is part of Goonhammer Historicals Year of the Ship - you can find the rest of the series here If we're going to play Napoleonic Naval Combat this year (and believe me, we are) then it's a good...

Goonhammer Reads: Napoleonics

So you've seen the movie and now you know with absolute certainty where Napoleon went wrong. You can, and will, do better. It's time to get into real wargaming. Welcome to Napoleonics. This article is part of our Getting Started:...

Goonhammer Reads: Horror

Fall is a great time to get cozy with a book and scare the hell out of yourself with, but frankly, it’s sometimes difficult to come across good, gripping horror. It isn’t for lack of trying; there are many,...

Goonhammer Reads Scifi: Itopia? Utopia!

Utopian fiction is rarer than its darker mirror, but serves more or less the same purpose. Where Dystopia asks us to reflect on the steps between now and when, and how we may avoid or survive whatever the author...

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: Beyond Thunderdome

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...

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: World-Enders

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...