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Crimson Fists: The Omnibus
Fantastic action packed omnibus featuring the fearless Crimson Fists!
Defiant, courageous and unyielding in the face of impossible odds – these are the Crimson Fists, Dorn’s glorious vanguard. Tested in battle like few others, these Space Marines are ever on the frontlines of an endless war against the barbaric orks. When the hordes of the warlord Snagrod come to lay waste to the Crimson Fists’ fortress-monastery on Rynn’s World, Chapter Master Kantor must lead the battered survivors in a desperate defence of their home if they are to have any hope of finding triumph in sacrifice.
This omnibus edition collects together the novels Rynn’s World and Legacy of Dorn, the novella Traitor’s Gorge and four short stories.
Defiant, courageous and unyielding in the face of impossible odds – these are the Crimson Fists, Dorn’s glorious vanguard. Tested in battle like few others, these Space Marines are ever on the frontlines of an endless war against the barbaric orks. When the hordes of the warlord Snagrod come to lay waste to the Crimson Fists’ fortress-monastery on Rynn’s World, Chapter Master Kantor must lead the battered survivors in a desperate defence of their home if they are to have any hope of finding triumph in sacrifice.
This omnibus edition collects together the novels Rynn’s World and Legacy of Dorn, the novella Traitor’s Gorge and four short stories.
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672 pages, Paperback
Published January 18, 2022
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Steve Parker
1,336 books86 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
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May 5, 2024
Steve Parker and Mike Lee team up and Build a Great World
Before this novel, I knew nothing about the Crimson Fists and now I am a big fan. I'm the type of fan who tries to follow good writers as much as I can when it comes to my Fandom interests. I read Parker's 'DeathWatch' novel and relevant short stories in the DeathWatch Omni, and it became so clear that Parker gets "it". In a lot of Space Marine novels there is little to know mention of tactics so you just have indomitable wills going against each other. Steve Parker and Mike Lee don't do that. They inject their novels with tactics; like formations and the strategic thinking of military leaders, be they on a squad level, company level or even space fight level. The way they approach the 40k lore with that in mind really help make these stories a cut above the average space marine stories.
Chapter Master Pedro Kantor, Captain Cortez and Vet. Sergeant Galleas are protagonists in this story and each has a compelling arc. The Space Marines are these Transhuman living battle tanks, yet Parker and Lee are able to humanize them in surprising ways and tell compelling stories along the way.
Strong recommendation for this omnibus.
Before this novel, I knew nothing about the Crimson Fists and now I am a big fan. I'm the type of fan who tries to follow good writers as much as I can when it comes to my Fandom interests. I read Parker's 'DeathWatch' novel and relevant short stories in the DeathWatch Omni, and it became so clear that Parker gets "it". In a lot of Space Marine novels there is little to know mention of tactics so you just have indomitable wills going against each other. Steve Parker and Mike Lee don't do that. They inject their novels with tactics; like formations and the strategic thinking of military leaders, be they on a squad level, company level or even space fight level. The way they approach the 40k lore with that in mind really help make these stories a cut above the average space marine stories.
Chapter Master Pedro Kantor, Captain Cortez and Vet. Sergeant Galleas are protagonists in this story and each has a compelling arc. The Space Marines are these Transhuman living battle tanks, yet Parker and Lee are able to humanize them in surprising ways and tell compelling stories along the way.
Strong recommendation for this omnibus.
January 1, 2025
One of the best Space Marine books so far.
December 12, 2022
Very entertaining entry into the mythos of the Space Marines. I especially enjoyed “Traitor’s Gorge” which hopefully is expanded on somewhere because it was very interesting and stories with Galleas as he seems to be one who can learn and grow and not hold so rigidly to the Codex much like other great Space Marine 40k characters.
November 21, 2022
An excellent anthology from Steve parker and Mike Lee, lots of bolters, Orks and emprah bashing but entertaining enough as per the usual Parker and Lee flair for this chapter of marines.
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