Harvey Duckman Presents... Special by Craig Hallam

Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. I feel The Woman In The Walls by Phil Kelly was the standout novella of the collection, but read it for yourself and make up your own mind.Ī chilling mosaic novel by masters of their craft. These three novellas are creepy, visceral and packed with very human drama, action and terror. My first foray into the subgenre of Warhammer Horror did not disappointment, either. But as I continue to explore the Black Library, as it’s known, I’m finding more and more gems in its vast collection, especially amongst the ‘Domestic 40K’ titles – character- rather than war-driven narratives that are easily as good as many commercial SciFi books of recent years. You may think you can only enjoy Warhammer fiction if you are a fan of the universe.

But when a new synth is delivered to the Burger Stop where Xev works, e’ll begin to ask questions that only the Artificial Intelligence that runs Shika-One can answer.Starting the list with something a bit out of left-field. An escape, a release, and for some, a necessary evil.īetween these worlds lives Xev and es friends. A virtual reality that can be anything you want it to be, where xp can be earned, and lost. An augmented reality where synths live out their designations, earning just enough xp to survive, and are shredded if they don’t work. The machine-grown people who remain call themselves synths.Īr-el. An irradiated population can no longer have children biologically. Race and gender are long forgotten concepts.

Humanity has come together from all over the scorched globe, creating one, final nation of survivors. Huddled beneath a tinted shell, Shika-One City is a place of perpetual neon night. One city stands against the ravaging solar winds. Our overheating sun has stripped this planet clean. Due for release in October 2020, Oshibana Complex is an experimental, philosophical Science fiction adventure about friendship, reality, and the final evolution of our species.

Harvey Duckman Presents... Special by Craig Hallam