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Plague Garden by Josh Reynolds: The Goonhammer Review

Plague Garden by Josh Reynolds is one of the seminal early-days Age of Sigmar novels. It didn’t contain any meta-altering plot, but it did contribute massively to the tone and character of what would come after. Indeed, any Age of...

Goonhammer Interviews VShojo’s Matara Kan: “It Took Me 14 Years to be an Overnight Success”

Continuing to deliver you the content that only we can bring you, I recently had a chance to sit down with VShojo’s Matara Kan for an interview! Matara debuted with the company in October, shortly after my interview with...

Black Library Review: Outgunned by Denny Flowers

  "The Aeronautica Imperialis are the masters of the skies in the 41st millennium, waging wars of breakneck aerial combat where only skill stands between victory and death. Flight Commander Lucille von Shard is an ace, a living exemplar of...

Blacktalon by Liane Marciel – The Goonhammer Review

Blacktalon is Liane Merciel’s first novel for Black Library, and you can tell she’s had a lot of fun with her opportunity to put her own mark on the Mortal Realms, populating the book with weird and wonderful creatures,...

Lore Explainer: Ciaphas Cain

In this week's Lore Explainer, we dive into Ciphas Cain, one of the best characters in 40k fiction and a great jumping off point for new Black Library readers.

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction (And Fantasy): Contemporary Lesbian Fiction

  Hello there! Marcy here, and this month, Goonhammer Reads will be tackling a subgenre that may not be overly familiar to many of you: contemporary lesbian fantasy and scifi fiction. Now, I know what you’re thinking–that maybe sounds totally...

Goonhammer Interviews: Black Library Author Danie Ware

  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:...

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: Far out

We've been to the past, we've dived into translations, we've looked square in the eye of feminist Science Fiction and learnt a lot from the experience, and now we've reached a high water mark - the decade that produced some of the greatest Science Fiction works of all time. This week with Kurt Vonnegut, Carol Emshwiller, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny and Mike Brooks!

The End and the Death, Part One: Goonhammer Review

So it has come to this. The Emperor is off to fight Horus. We have reached the End and the Death. How we think this story should end is not just from the Siege of Terra, or the impossibly...

Goonhammer Reads Science Fiction: Back to the 50s Future

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"...