![]() I've been arguing for some time that somebody ought to do a proper study of this saga. ![]() ![]() But over the years GW fiction itself has been the subject of a saga of gamers and business suits, of orthodoxies and heresies, of Stakhanovites and rebels, of collapses and recoveries, of intriguing lost possibilities, and of struggles for literary freedom in an 'owned universe'. Today GW publishes new and reprinted fiction - great mountains of it, in fact - under its 'Black Library' imprint. My own involvement was modest, two short stories published in 19 there have been much more significant contributions from David Garnett, Kim Newman, Brian Stableford, Ian Watson and others. ![]() Partly because of the involvement of Interzone editor David Pringle, who was editor of the GW line from 1988 to 1991, over the years several prominent British writers of sf and fantasy have contributed to the various series, many from what used to be known as the 'Interzone generation'. Since that beginning there has been published a whole string of books, magazines and comics, set in the universes of the highly successful war games and role-playing games marketed by Games Workshop (GW). That's the first line of 'Geheimnisnacht' by William King, the first story in the first book of Warhammer fiction, the anthology Ignorant Armies, published in 1989. '"Curse all manling coach drivers and all manling women," muttered Gotrek Gurnisson, adding a curse in Dwarvish. ![]()
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