The Sanguinor: Exemplar of the Host

Black Library Advent Calendar 2013 #23

by James Swallow

For seven years the Blood Angels have warred against the Great Devourer on Skylos. For seven years they have fought and bled and died. Now, the war is almost over, and only a handful of the sons of Sanguinius remain. As they prepare to make their last stand, thoughts turn to the Sanguinor, said to arrive and bring hope in moments of great peril. But the Sanguinor is just a legend. It isn’t real… is it?

Read it because A Lords of the Space Marines short story by James Swallow

Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction, Military Fiction, 40k

11 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 23, 2013

About the author

James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty-five books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television.

DARK HORIZON, his latest stand-alone thriller, is out now from Mountain Leopard Press, and OUTLAW, the 6th action-packed Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier.

Along with the Marc Dane thrillers, his writing includes, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Tom Clancy, 24, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more.

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Visit James's website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series.

You can also follow James on Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Twitter at @jmswallow, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.

Reviews

[Michael Botterill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its shortness was actually a good thing, it told a really good little snapshot in just a few pages, but it’s left me with a really interesting view on the Sanguinor now

[Dylan Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Damn good Blood Angels read(and surprisingly little Black Rage/Red Thirst).
Really shoes the hopelessness(and hope) that warhammer 40K can put out.
Damn good story, I love reading the tidbits about The Sanguinor!
Part of me wants to know WHAT he is, but at the same time, it is that mystery which makes him so amazing!