Gaunt's Ghosts
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- This article is about the book series. For information on the Tanith First-and-Only in other aspects of Warhammer 40,000, see Tanith (Warhammer 40,000)
The series spans eleven novels, in which the efforts of the Tanith First-And-Only during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade are documented. There are dozens of named characters, but the protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be awarded command of a regiment.
Other major characters include Colonel Colm Corbec, Major Elim Rawne, Sniper Hlaine Larkin, Brin Milo, Scout Sergeant Mkoll. The series alludes to other series by Dan Abnett, such as Eisenhorn and Ravenor, and has resulted in several spin-off works.
The series began as a continuing set of loosely connected short stories in the Black Library magazine INFERNO! (issues 4, 8, and 30). Their popularity was such that what was to be the next short piece, entitled "Vermilion Level", was written out to novel length as First and Only and published as the Black Library's first original novel (the book line up until that point consisting of reprints of novels from the pre-Black Library days and anthologies of short fiction taken from INFERNO! magazine). The original short pieces subsequently appeared as flashback-chapters in Ghostmaker, the second book.
The books remain probably the most popular and best-selling of the Black Library's line, with a wide range of other publications (ancillary novels devoted to minor characters in the main series and a mock "historical book" about the war in which the books take place) as well as merchandise such as badges, T-shirts, and special editions of the books themselves.
Books in series
The novels fall into a series of three story arcs.
- The Founding
- * First And Only – ISBN 1844161641
- * Ghostmaker – ISBN 0671784102
- * Necropolis – ISBN 0743411595
- The Saint
- * Honour Guard – ISBN 1841541516
- * The Guns of Tanith – ISBN 1841542326
- * Straight Silver – ISBN 1841542628
- * Sabbat Martyr – ISBN 0743443608
- The Lost
- * Traitor General – ISBN 1844161137
- * His Last Command – hardcover only as of November 2005 – ISBN 1844162389
- * The Armour of Contempt – to be released 2006-10-30
- * Only in Death – projected, exact release date uncertain, also referred to as Even Unto Death.
Spin-off titles
Dan Abnett has also authored several other titles based during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, one focusing on the Phantine Air Corps (introduced in The Guns of Tanith), the other on the Sabbat Worlds Crusade as a whole.See also
References
- All other books in the Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels.
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