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The Iron Star

The Iron Star

DystopianFantasy
Pages
32
Published
2008
Language
English

Synopsis

The Iron Star, by Dan Abnett, is an exclusive, stand–alone Gaunt’s Ghosts short story. Released in September 2008, it’s limited to 1,200 copies, and will be available at UK Games Day, from the Black Library webstore, and at the 2009 US Games Days, until stock runs out.

Set between the events of Only in Death and the forthcoming novel, Blood Pact, The Iron Star follows Colonel–Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only across an unknown and mysterious warzone. Here, they face the their old foes, the Blood Pact. But how are long–dead Ghosts able to fight at Gaunt’s side against the enemy, and who are the watchers? The key to it all lies in unravelling the mystery of the iron star.

Genres

Dystopian Fantasy Military Military Sci-Fi Science Fiction Short Stories Space Opera

About the author

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Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965, Rochester, Kent) is an English novelist and comic book writer. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and began writing comics in the late 1980s. For 2000 AD he created Sinister Dexter, and for Marvel and DC he has written titles including Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, Legion of Super-Heroes, Titans and Aquaman, often in partnership with Andy Lanning as "DnA". His prose is best known from Games Workshop's Black Library, where he wrote the Gaunt's Ghosts, Ei...