Believe us when we tell you that Space Marine is quite unlike any other Warhammer 40,000 novel you’ve ever read.First published in 1993 though completed some years earlier at a time when the background to the Warhammer 40,000 universe was still in a state of flux and not yet fully coalesced, the book follows three young Imperial Fist recruits from their formative years in the underhive gangs of Necromunda through to fighting as part of the First Company within the bowels (literally...

The Three Laws of Feministics:Your body is not your own; it belongs to another. Therefore you may not damage it nor, through inaction, allow it to be damaged.You must obey all orders given you by your owner (or in cases of loss of ownership, by any man) even if such orders conflict with the First Law.You may not injure any man, nor through failure to comply with the Second Law, cause him displeasure or mental injury.

Devastated by the death of a close ally, renegade Inquisitor Jaq Draco prepares to surrender his very soul to the gods of Chaos, so he may discover the mythical place where time is reversed and the dead may rise again. Only by renouncing his fanatical faith in the God- Emperor can he hope to achieve his ultimate goal - and an eternity of damnation!Read it becauseIt's the epic conclusion to the mind-bending trilogy that looks back at the Warhammer 40,000 univ...

The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger and saner. The world, and its whole concept of time, science and philosophy, must wait for him to speak. But while the world waits, it changes...

Forty thousand years in the future, the human Imperium struggles for survival against its relentless enemies. Inquisitor Jaq Draco uncovers a plot that threatens the psychic future of Mankind. Can he unravel the trail of con- spiracy before he himself is destroyed by its deadly clutches? Dazzling and frenetic, Ian Watson's Inquisition War presents a unique vision of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crash...

A Classic Warhammer 40,000 NovelThe Inquisition is given near-limitless power to protect humanity from any and all threats, but what happens when an Inquisitor IS the threat?READ IT BECAUSEThis classic Warhammer 40,000 story delves into everything that makes the Inquisiton interesting secret wars, the quest for power, and the price one pays for forbidden knowledge.THE STORYIn the grim darkness of the 4...

When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment and to have the mind of a supposedly dead astronaut imperfectly imprinted on his own. If the boy is to be believed, then the experiment has been extended to a whale.In Mexico, ground-breaking research by Nobel Prize winner Paul Hammond has shown that wh...

Charles Spark is an expert on body language, a bestselling author and a consultant (or walking lie detector) much in demand with industry and government. So when the aliens arrive, who better to join the team that will attempt to understand them?But even though these insectoid aliens - the "Flies" - in their pyramid-ship speak both English and Russian, they seem unreadable. "We have come to your planet to remember it," they say and at first they seem indeed to be a bizarre group of...

When Saul and Diane save a wild rabbit from a hungry weasel in a quiet country lane, they inadvertently unleash the vengeance of a bloodthirsty, carnivorous force.Soon their sanity and their lives are at risk - as are the young people of a cell of the Animal Liberation Front with whom they join forces to learn the terrible secrets of their rural village. A visit to a battery chicken shed turns into an animal Auschwitz, where Saul is held prisoner. And a raid on a butcher's shop bri...

"Watson is a highly intelligent writer ... I rarely give 5-star reviews, but this was something special" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars"a wonderful, wonderful story that I cannot recommend highly enough to any fan of the genre" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsThe city of Babylon has been reconstructed in the Arizona desert. Along with new arrivals, Alex Winter - a sociology drop-out - and Deborah Tate arrive by hovercraft, hoping to immerse themse...

Tattooed on a woman-sized tumour, these tales, told to it as bedtime stories, are by turns surreal, satiric, erotic, obscene, ingenious, hilarious, and quite, quite brilliant. Together, they combine to create a weird and wonderful love story, unlike anything told before.