There Is Only War

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a New York Times-bestselling author from Northern Ireland, best known for his work on the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 science fiction universes. His notable works include the Horus Heresy novels The First Heretic and The Master of Mankind, as well as the popular Night Lords series and novels such as Spear of the Emperor and Black Legion. He has also written for Riot Games and started his career by writing for friends before moving into video games and RPGs. Since 2022 he has worked as the head of narrative at Games Workshop.

Chris Wraight is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His first novel was published in 2008. Since then, he’s published books set in the Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, Horus Heresy and Stargate:Atlantis universes.

Graham McNeill worked for Games Workshop between 2000 and 2006 as a games developer and a background material writer. As well as writing for White Dwarf, he worked on several codexes including the Tau, Necrons, Witch Hunters, Space Marines and Black Templars. After leaving Games Workshop in 2006 he became a freelance writer, but currently continues to produce novels for Black Library His Horus Heresy novel, A Thousand Sons, was a New York Times bestseller, and the second book in his Sigmar trilogy, Empire, won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel.

Andy Chambers (born 20 October 1966) is an English author and game designer best known for his work on over 30 Games Workshop rulebooks and sourcebooks.

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. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his 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.

Anthony Reynolds was a Games Developer and manager at Games Workshop in the UK. Since then he's written freelance for a number of companies, including Black Library Publishing, Mantic Games, THQ, Bandai-Namco, Behaviour Interactive, and River Horse Games. He currently lives in California.

Andy Hoare is a British author and games designer, best known for his work within the Warhammer universe. He has written several novels and short stories set in both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle universes, as well as working for the game's publisher, Games Workshop, where he has contributed to the development of tabletop games and rulebooks. His writing often delves into the rich tapestry of lore associated with these settings, bringing to life the epic conflicts and intricate politics of the Warhammer world. Hoare's background in game design is often reflected in the detailed and strategic elements of his narratives.

Jonathan Green works as a full-time teacher in West London. He started writing for Games Workshop in 1994. He has written for various science fiction and fantasy franchises, including Doctor Who, Fighting Fantasy, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 game universes.

Matthew Farrer (born 1970) is from Canberra, Australia and is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. He has been writing since his teens, however did not garner success until his short story Badlands Skelter's Downhive Monster Show appeared in Inferno! and subsequently Status: Deadzone. Since then he has written the Shira Calpurnia (Novel Series) and a number of short stories and was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award in 2001.

Forged from beef and brawn, Andy Smillie emerged from the blacksmith’s fire like a slab of Scottish iron. Hailing from the northern reaches of Glasgow, he crossed the border into England intent on conquest but instead found gainful employment in Nottingham at Games Workshop. Leaving a trail of carnage in his wake, he eventually settled in the Black Library where he works in marketing by day and as a literary superhero by night... His writing credits include a veritable swathe of articles for various sci-fi, fantasy and hobby magazines. His debut work of fiction, Mountain Eater, was released in 2011 in the digital publication Hammer & Bolter.

Mike Lee (born 1955) is an author, scriptwriter and game designer whose most recent credits include Fallen Angels, the latest installment in Black Library Publishing’s best-selling Horus Heresy series, and the dark fantasy epic Nagash the Sorcerer. Along with UK author Dan Abnett, Mike also wrote the five-volume Chronicles of Malus Darkblade, whose signature character has become a cult favorite among fans of Black Library’s Warhammer Fantasy fiction. In addition to his novels, Mike’s scriptwriting credits include Tom Clancy’s HAWX, a game of near-future jet combat, and Splinter Cell: Conviction, the hit sequel to the popular Splinter Cell franchise published by Ubisoft Entertainment. He has also contributed to more than two dozen pen-and-paper role-playing games and supplements, including the award-winning Vampire: The Masquerade, Adventure!, Vampire: Dark Ages and Hunter: The Reckoning, published by White Wolf Games Studio. An avid wargamer, history buff and devoted fan of two-fisted pulp adventure, Mike lives with his wife, artist JK Lee, and their family in the United States.

Richard Williams is from Nottingham, UK and was first published in Inferno! #19 with his short story Mark of the Warrior. His credits since then include his first novel Relentless as well as writing on topics as diverse as gang initiation, medieval highwaymen and arcane religions. In his spare time he is a theatre director and actor.

C.L. Werner is a voracious reader and prolific author from Phoenix, Arizona. His many novels and short stories span the genres of fantasy and horror and he has written for Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Old World, Warhammer 40,000, Warmachine’s Iron Kingdoms, and Mantic’s Kings of War. For Aconyte, he is the author of Marvel Legends of Asgard: Sword of Surtur and Three Swords, as well as the Zombicide: Black Plague trilogy, Age of the Undead and Isle of the Undead.

Originally hailing from the rainswept land of the Picts, Steve Parker currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. His novels to date include Rebel Winter, Gunheads, Rynn's World, Deathwatch and its first sequel, Deathwatch: Shadowbreaker, plus a gauntlet-covered fistful of short stories and novellas.

Nick Kyme hails from Grimsby, a small town on the North East coast of England known for its fish (a food, which ironically he dislikes profusely). Nick moved to Nottingham in 2003 to work on White Dwarf magazine as a Layout Designer. Since then, he has climbed to the heady heights of Writer and Layout Designer, and has had three short stories published in Inferno in that time.

Paul Kearney (born 1967) is a Northern Irish fantasy author. He is noted for his work in the epic fantasy subgenre. Kearney was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in 1967. He studied Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Old Norse at Oxford University and then spent several years in both the United States and Denmark before returning to Northern Ireland. He currently lives and writes in County Down.

Rob Sanders is the author of the Horus Heresy novellas Cybernetica and The Serpent Beneath, the latter of which appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology The Primarchs. His other Black Library credits include the The Beast Arises novels Predator, Prey and Shadow of Ullanor, the Warhammer 40,000 titles Sons of the Hydra, Skitarius, Tech-Priest, Legion of the Damned, Atlas Infernal and Redemption Corps and the audio drama The Path Forsaken. He has also written the Warhammer Archaon duology, Everchosen and Lord of Chaos, along with many short stories for the Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000. He lives in the city of Lincoln, UK.

George Mann is a British author, scriptwriter, and editor known for his work in genre fiction, including comics, novels, and audio dramas for properties like Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Sherlock Holmes. He is also the author of the Newbury and Hobbes series and the Wychwood series, and has written for Warhammer comics through Titan Comics

Alexander Michael Stewart (born 25 July 1958) is a British writer. His best known work is fiction written under the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell—Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels, including the Ciaphas Cain series. A full-time writer since the mid-1980s, the majority of his work (as Sandy Mitchell) has been tie-in fiction for Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 science fiction lines, as well as a novelisation of episodes from the high tech thriller series Bugs, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter under his real name.

Henry Zou lives in Sydney, Australia. He first started writing on long and lonely military exercises with the Army, and these scribbled notes and drawings became the basis for his stories. His first published piece of fiction appeared in the Warhammer 40,000 anthology Planetkill. When Henry is not working or studying, he devotes all his time to submission wrestling and listening to Baltic gypsy rock.

John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written over twenty books over a decade-long career, notably the Ahriman series set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and six novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently The Solar War and Mortis. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). He has been a series writer for three animated TV shows and written the scripts for over thirty produced episodes. In the realm of video games, he has worked as a story designer and writer on multiple titles, including Darktide and the forthcoming Dawn of War IV. In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with his script for the drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.

Sarah Cawkwell is a sci-fi and fantasy writer based in the North East of England. Old enough to know better, she’s still very much young enough not to care. She’s been a writer for many years, and her published works include several novels and short stories within the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes and an original alternate-history fantasy novel. When not slaving away over a hot keyboard, Sarah’s hobbies include reading everything and anything she can get her hands on, gaming and other assorted geekery.

Braden is an author for Games Workshop's Black Library and has enjoyed Warhammer 40K for nearly a decade, remaining fiercely dedicated to his Dark Eldar. He lives in Milton, Ontario, Canada with his wife and daughter.

Ben Counter (1979) is an English fantasy writer, predominantly known for his numerous fiction contributions to various Warhammer 40,000 series. He is also the writer for the Out of Place podcast, a work of serialized fiction with over two dozen episodes.

Gav Thorpe is a British author, game developer, and former games developer at Games Workshop, best known for his work in the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes. He has written numerous novels for Black Library, including the Horus Heresy series, and is a New York Times bestselling author. He also won the 2017 David Gemmell Legend Award for his novel Warbeast.

Barrington J. Bayley (9 April 1937 – 14 October 2008) was an English science fiction writer. Bayley published work principally under his own name but also using the pseudonyms of Alan Aumbry, Michael Barrington (with Michael Moorcock), John Diamond and P.F. Woods.

William King (born 7 December 1959), also known as Bill King, is a Scottish writer of a number of science fiction and fantasy books, most notably in Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 series, published by Games Workshop's fiction arm Black Library.

James Swallow is a British author. A BAFTA nominee and a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 best-seller, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and video games. His writing includes the Marc Dane series of action thrillers, the Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels, and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who, 24, Stargate, 2000 AD and many more. He has won Scribe Awards for novels and audio dramas based on Star Trek, Watch Dogs Legion, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell and Star Cops[1]. He lives and works in London.

David Annandale (born 1967) is a Canadian speculative fiction author. He received a BA (1990) and an MA (1992) from the University of Manitoba, and took a PhD from the University of Alberta; he currently teaches at the University of Manitoba.