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Gaunt's Ghosts
''Gaunt's Ghosts'' is a series of military science fiction novels by Dan Abnett, set in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. It was inspired by the ''Sharpe (novel series), Sharpe'' series of books written by Bernard Cornwell. As of 2019 in literature, 2019, the series spans 16 novels which document the efforts of the Tanith First, a highly skilled yet unappreciated light infantry infantry regiment, regiment of the Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000), Imperial Guard, during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be officially awarded command of a regiment. Although Gaunt is the primary character, the perspective from which the novels are told shifts regularly to encompass a wider view of events – it is usually told from the Imperial point of view, though the perspective is occasionally seen through the eyes of antagonists. Elements of the series later reappeared in other series by Abnett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett (born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his ''Warhammer Fantasy (setting), Warhammer Fantasy'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books. Early life Abnett read English and matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1984, and graduated from there in 1987. Career As one of the more prolific ''2000 AD'' writers, Abnett was responsible for the creation of one of the comic's better known and longest-running strips, ''Sinister Dexter''. Other original stories include ''Black Light'', ''Badlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flashback (literary Technique)
A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future. Both flashback and flashforward are used to cohere a story, develop a character, or add structure to the narrative. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started. In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma". Flashbacks are important in film noir and melodrama films. In films and television, several camera techniques, editing approaches and special effects have evolved to alert the vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Hulk
''Space Hulk'' is a board game for two players by Games Workshop. It was released in 1989. The game is set in the fictional universe of ''Warhammer 40,000''. In the game, a "space hulk" is a mass of ancient, derelict space ships, asteroids, and other assorted space debris. One player takes the role of Space Marine Terminators, superhuman elite soldiers who have been sent to investigate such a space hulk. The other player takes the role of Tyranid Genestealers, an aggressive alien species which have made their home aboard such masses. Background In ''Warhammer 40,000'', a "space hulk" is any massive derelict space ship. Space hulks are often agglomerations of multiple ships, fused together by the magical influence of the Warp, a kind of hyperspace. Space hulks may house many threats: genestealers; human followers of the dark gods of Chaos; daemons; and Orks, who use space hulks as their standard method of interstellar travel. Genestealers were described in the first edition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapbook
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages. They were often illustrated with crude woodcuts, which sometimes bore no relation to the text (much like today's stock photos), and were often read aloud to an audience. When illustrations were included in chapbooks, they were considered popular prints. The tradition of chapbooks arose in the 16th century, as soon as printed books became affordable, and rose to its height during the 17th and 18th centuries. Many different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published as chapbooks, such as almanacs, children's literature, folk tales, ballads, nursery rhymes, pamphlets, poetry, and political and religious tracts. The term "chapbook" for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar (Warhammer 40,000)
In the fictional setting of ''Warhammer 40,000'', the Aeldari (or the Eldar) are a race of aliens and playable army in the tabletop miniatures wargame. They are patterned after the High Elves of fantasy fiction; long-lived, arrogant, and possessing great psychic powers. The Eldar once ruled the galaxy but were devastated in a supernatural cataclysm. The Eldar are divided into factions: Craftworld Eldar, Harlequins, Exodites, Corsairs, The Ynnari and Drukhari or Dark Eldar. The Craftworld Eldar are divided further into specific craftworlds, the most prominent among which are Ulthwé, Alaitoc, Biel-Tan, Iyanden, and Saim-Hann. Similarly the Harlequin are divided in to Harlequin Masques. The most well known Masques are: The Midnight Sorrow, The Veiled Path, The Frozen Star, The Soaring Spite, The Dreaming Shadow, and The Silent Shroud. The Corsairs call their divisions Fleets of Infamy, the most infamous of them are: The Eldritch Raiders, The Steeleye Reavers, The Sunblitz Brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment. In addition, courts-martial may be used to try prisoners of war for war crimes. The Geneva Conventions require that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding military's own forces. Finally, courts-martial can be convened for other purposes, such as dealing with violations of martial law, and can involve civilian defendants. Most navies have a standard court-martial which convenes whenever a ship is lost; this does not presume that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that the circumstances surrounding the loss of the ship be made part of the official record. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaos Space Marines
In Games Workshop's '' Warhammer Fantasy'' and ''Warhammer 40,000'' fictional universes, Chaos refers to parasitic entities which live in a different plane of reality known as '' the Warp'' or ''Immaterium'' in ''Warhammer 40,000'' and as the Realm of Chaos in ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar''. The term can refer to these warp entities and their influence, the servants and worshippers of these entities, or even the parallel universe in which these entities are supposed to reside. The most powerful of these warp entities are those known as the Chaos Gods, also sometimes referred to as the Dark Gods, Ruinous Powers, or the Powers of Chaos. Similarities exist between the Warhammer idea of Chaos and the concept of Chaos from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, which also influenced D&D's alignment system. Further similarities can be seen with the godlike extradimensional Great Old Ones of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's stories. Realm of Chaos The first version of ''Realm of Chaos'' is a tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanith (Warhammer 40,000)
Tanith may refer to: Mythology * Tanith, alternative spelling of Tanit, an ancient Carthaginian lunar goddess of the Punic pantheon People * Tanith (DJ) (born 1962), stage name of Thomas Andrezak, German DJ and producer of electronic dance music *Tanith Belbin (born 1984), Canadian/American figure skater * Tanith Carey (born 1967), British author and journalist *Tanith Lee (1947–2015), British author * Tanith Maxwell (born 1976), South African runner *Tanit Phoenix (born 1984), South African fashion model and actress Fictional characters * Tanith (Stargate), a male Goa'uld from ''Stargate SG-1'' * Tanith Carlisle, a leading character in ''The Devil Rides Out'' by Dennis Wheatley * Tanith, a secondary character in ''The World of Lone Wolf'' gamebook series * Tanith Low, a character in the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series of novels by Derek Landy * Tanith, the deputy commander of Begnion's Holy Guard from ''Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance'' and ''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean, dwarfing Earth's polar ice, lakes, and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land, consisting of continents and islands. Earth's surface layer is formed of several slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth's liquid outer core generates the magnetic field that shapes the magnetosphere of the Earth, deflecting destructive solar winds. The atmosphere of the Earth consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide (CO2) trap a part of the energy from the Sun close to the surface. Water vapor is widely present in the atmosphere and forms clouds that cover most of the planet. More solar e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostmaker Cover
''Gaunt's Ghosts'' is a series of military science fiction novels by Dan Abnett, set in the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. It was inspired by the ''Sharpe (novel series), Sharpe'' series of books written by Bernard Cornwell. As of 2019 in literature, 2019, the series spans 16 novels which document the efforts of the Tanith First, a highly skilled yet unappreciated light infantry infantry regiment, regiment of the Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000), Imperial Guard, during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The protagonist is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, one of the few political commissars of the Imperium to be officially awarded command of a regiment. Although Gaunt is the primary character, the perspective from which the novels are told shifts regularly to encompass a wider view of events – it is usually told from the Imperial point of view, though the perspective is occasionally seen through the eyes of antagonists. Elements of the series later reappeared in other series by Abnett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gg First
GG may refer to: Gaming * GG (gaming), an abbreviation used in video games meaning "good game" * GameGuard, a hacking protection program used in some MMORPGs * Game Gear, a handheld game console released by SEGA * Game Genie, a video game cheat cartridge * ''Guilty Gear'', a fighting game series by Arc System Works * ''The G.G. Shinobi'', a side-scrolling action game by Sega released for the Game Gear in 1991 Music * ''G. G.'' (album), a 1975 album by Gary Glitter * Girls' Generation, Korean girl group Television * ''Game Grumps'', a video gaming web series * ''Gossip Girl'', an American teen drama series * GG, the production code for the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Underwater Menace'' Transportation * GG (New York City Subway service) * Sky Lease Cargo's IATA designation * GG, a version of the Subaru Impreza station wagon * GG Duetto, a motorcycle+sidecar built by Swiss Grüter+Gut Motorradtechnik GmbH (GG) Other uses * .gg, the top-level domain country code fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ork (Warhammer 40,000)
In the fictional universe of ''Warhammer 40,000'', the Orks are a race of aliens and a playable army in the tabletop miniatures wargame. Alongside the Space Marines, Orks are one of the most iconic elements of the ''Warhammer 40,000'' universe. Orks revel in violence for its own sake; their entire culture revolves around warfare. They are one of the oldest, most widespread and persistent of the Imperium's enemies and even outnumber the quadrillions strong humanity as a species, making them the most numerous species in the galaxy. Their simplistic personalities, reckless tactics and ramshackle technology make them the comic relief characters of the setting. Tabletop game mechanics The Orks are oriented towards melee combat; their ranged units are rather weak. Most of their units have weak armour and are thus easy to kill, but they are cheap and thus can make up for this weakness with numbers. A favourite strategy has been "the Green Tide": the player fields as many Ork Boyz as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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