Cargo by Chris Wraight

Author:Chris Wraight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-08T08:48:28+00:00

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION

The Helwinter Gate Limited Edition

Writing sequels is always hard. Writing sequels after a gap of several years (six, no less!) is even harder.

The long interval between books was certainly not intentional. I was more or less at the start of my career as a writer when I wrote Blood of Asaheim - I had a couple of 40K novels under my belt, but had otherwise only written for the Warhammer Fantasy range. I had a lot to learn, both about writing in general, and also about writing Space Marines. I got plenty wrong, in both areas. Despite that, the second book in the series, Stormcaller, picked up where the first one left off, with the clear intention to complete the trilogy fairly soon afterwards.

From that point on, however, my schedule started to fill up. I was invited to write for the Horus Heresy series, and the White Scars books followed. I got the chance to write an inquisitor trilogy (the Vaults of Terra books), and then some stories starring Custodians and Sisters of Silence (the Watchers of the Throne series), and then the Death Guard. All of these were fantastic opportunities, and ones that often had to fit into a broader schedule. It was never the intention to neglect poor old Jarnhamar pack, but finding time to finish what had been started proved increasingly tricky.

Finally, though, an opportunity came up. That's when the really hard work began - I had to go back a long way in order to remember all the things I'd originally planned. My memory for names and places is terrible at the best of times, but trying to keep several series all together, each with their own cast of characters and themes, is remarkably difficult.

I took a lot of notes. I did a lot of thinking.

There was some temptation to go off in a different direction for this novel. I've changed a bit as a writer over the years - hopefully in a good way - and some of the choices that I made in 2013 I probably wouldn't make now. The more I immersed myself back into the world of the original stories though, the more that felt like the wrong choice. I wanted to finish the series in the spirit of the original books, adopting the same feel if possible, and trying to honour the various arcs I set up back then. The first two Space Wolves books were primarily action-orientated, with plenty of set-piece combat, and so I've tried to keep a fair slice of that in the finale.

The passage of time in the real world wasn't the only continuity problem. In between Stormcaller appearing and the start of this book, the fictional universe changed too. Cadia fell, the Great Rift opened, Fenris was attacked by Magnus… again, and Primaris Marines were activated on Terra. None of those things were foreseen in the first two books, and it was hard to know how, or indeed whether, to include any of them in the third one.

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