Sabbat Crusade (Gaunt’s Ghosts Book 15) by Dan Abnett

Author:Dan Abnett [Abnett, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Black Library
Published: 2015-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

There now follow three stories set in the past. The first is monumental. I adore Matt Farrer’s writing, and believe that he is one of the unsung kings of Black Library fiction. And more than that, SF fiction as a whole. Matt’s based down in Canberra, and I count him as a true friend.

Matt constructs deep, complex, intense narratives. Which is why we love him. This story (actually, novella) is almost overwhelming with its scale and size. In a good way. Matt wrote a great story for the first anthology. It came in right before the wire. I said, ‘Matt, where’s your story?’ He replied, ‘I started writing it but it turned into something else. A prequel to the story I intended to write. So I scrapped it, and now I haven’t got time to write the one I wanted to.’

Believing it was possibly a case of ‘the dog ate my homework’, I told him to send the ‘scrapped’ story to me anyway. Five minutes later, it arrived. And it was brilliant.

This novella is the sequel to that, and it’s the story he originally meant to tell. His chosen subject is the Adeptus Mechanicus, mopping up the battlefield wrecks behind the forward line of the Crusade, and encountering the monstrous ‘woe machines’ of the Archenemy warlord and genius Heritor Asphodel. Exactly how do you deal with artefacts so appalling?

Lose yourselves in the immensity of this. This is the only story in this collection that I strongly urge you to go back and read the prequel in Sabbat Worlds again, as an appetiser. It’s that good. It’s that epic. And it’s a novella.

Matt will amaze you.

Dan Abnett

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