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Dawn of War III (Warhammer 40,000) Paperback – April 18, 2017

by Robbie MacNiven (Author)

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Part of: Warhammer 40,000 (355 books)

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Set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe, this novelisation features characters and events from Dawn of War III, the third game in Sega and Relic Entertainment’s phenomenally successful RTS franchise.

Every 5,000 years, the accursed world of Acheron emerges from the warp. Drawn by its legend, three factions – Space Marines, eldar and orks – battle each other to possess the great weapon that is said to reside there. But when the weapon is finally revealed, a terrible threat rears its head. Can the three warring armies do whatever it takes to put aside their differences and defeat the ultimate evil?

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Warhammer 40,000
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336 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Games Workshop
Publication date

April 18, 2017
Dimensions

5 x 1.1 x 7.7 inches
ISBN-10

9781784965037
ISBN-13

978-1784965037
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Robbie MacNiven is a Highlands-born History graduate from the University of Edinburgh. He has written the Warhammer Age of Sigmar novel Scourge of Fate and Gotrek Gurnisson novella The Bone Desert, as well as the Warhammer 40,000 novels Blood of Iax, The Last Hunt, Carcharodons: Red Tithe, Carcharodons: Outer Dark and Legacy of Russ. His short stories include ‘Redblade’, ‘A Song for the Lost’ and ‘Blood and Iron’. His hobbies include re-enacting, football and obsessing over Warhammer 40,000.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1784965030
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Games Workshop (April 18, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781784965037
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784965037
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.1 x 7.7 inches

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Robbie MacNiven is an author and freelance journalist living in the Highlands of Scotland and currently enrolled as a student at the University of Edinburgh, studying History. His ambition is to become an author in much the same way that a 5 year old, when asked what he wants to be when he grows up, will say “a fireman” or “an astronaut.” He takes thin but wholesome comfort from the fact that the world will always need authors just as it will always need firemen and (presumably) astronauts.

In between studying (at worst only a passing discomfort) and writing Robbie follows politics, football, gaming and stalks magazines and newspapers online to see if they have a “submit” button. A number of his short fiction works can be found on Amazon, and his non-fiction in such publications as Retrospect, Skirmish and Military History Monthly. Should his writing career almost invariably fail he intends to flee to North America, buy himself a musket and a red coat, and join a re-enacting group. He generally prefers cats to dogs, and is 23 years old.

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Good read.

Awesome white-knuckle action!

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017

I have to be honest here, Robbie’s a buddy of mine from other blogs. So you may think that this review may be a little biased in his favor. However, I can assure you, Amazon readers, that under any objective criteria, this is a fantastic read!

First, the merely okay: The basic plot isn’t worldshattering to anyone familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Essentially, 40 thousand years in the future, the galaxy is an endless nightmare of war where extradimensional entities (from another dimension called the Warp) fight with and against a dizzying array of dangerous aliens to destroy humanity. The only thing shielding us from all these horrors is the Imperium, the galaxy-spanning human empire that’s the most dystopian theocratic totalitarian dictatorship you can imagine run by the corpse of its God-Emperor. It regularly sentences entire planets and billions of its own citizens to death, but that’s still a better deal for mankind than being eaten by space bugs (Tyranids), consumed by Chaos (the aforementioned Warp entities), and so on.

Humanity’s most stalwart defenders are the genetically engineered Space Marines, and one of its most merciless adversaries are the barbaric Orks. The inscrutable Eldar also interact with humanity, sometimes as allies, more often as foes. All three of these races have landed on the planet of Cyprus Ultima–The Space Marines are led by the mighty Gabriel Angelos, the Orks by the cunning warboss Gorgutz, and the Eldar by the wise Farseer Macha. At first it seems they’re fighting over the riches of Ultima, but all of a sudden an entire planet, Acheron, emerges nearby from the Warp, and on that planet is a weapon supposedly capable of conquering entire worlds. All three factions attempt to gain control of it, but they soon find that the prize they seek may be a trap instead…

So yeah, not the most groundbreaking plot in the world, but this is a novel based on a videogame (Dawn of War III is coming out for the PC soon), so I can accept that. Additionally, the characters are okay: Gabriel Angelos is noble, Farseer Macha is farsighted, and Gorgutz is amusing, and there’s some reasonably compelling conflict between each character and other factions belonging to their races–an Imperial inquisitor wants Acheron’s secrets for himself while Lady Solaria of Ultima just wants to avenge her family, an Eldar leader is consumed by bloodlust, and Gorgutz, of course, fights with his fellow Orks as much as he fights against everyone else. They’re all distinct and competently drawn, but not especially original or compelling. Again, this isn’t MacNiven’s fault, as these aren’t his characters, just those from the game, and in-game they serve their purposes so much.

Given this somewhat less than enthusiastic assessment, you may wonder why I awarded this novel five stars. Three words: WHITE KNUCKLE ACTION! The novel starts off at 10 and just gets hotter from there. The combat is amazingly visceral, with tons of blood and gore (there are some very violent parts, which I liked, but other readers might shy away from), as well as incredibly well written, as if you can see and feel every swing, cut, and thrust. The choreography is great and keeping with the lore–Gabriel makes a couple of desperate leaps in his Terminator armor, but otherwise the superfast Matrix style moves are kept to the Eldar. I didn’t see a single backflipping Terminator 😄 😄 Seriously though, it’s great, and there are sooo many awesome scenes: A mighty giant robot cutting its way through a wave of Orks, a crazy Ork slamming meteors down on the planet, Eldar slicing and dicing their way through the minions of the Warp, and a REALLY sweet climactic battle I don’t want to spoil, but rest assured, it is EPIC!

So yeah, I definitely got my money’s worth with this one and am extremely pleased. I really wanna see what else Robbie’s written…with his skill at writing battle scenes, I bet he’d do even better with his own characters and plots in the Warhammer 40,000 setting. I’m definitely gonna check out his other books, most notably Red Tithe. Alas, at the time of this review, it’s not gonna be out in the US for a while…I gotta wait. I bet anyone reading this would be eager to check out MacNiven’s other books too, but while we wait, the Dawn of War novelization ought to definitely tide us over. And get us eager for the actual game, of course…again, no spoilers, but the very end, the epilogue at the last page, has a super-cool teaser for a foe we might see in a future Dawn of War installment. The hype is real!!!!

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