Lords of Caliban

The Legacy of Caliban

by Gav Thorpe

The Dark Angels are the first Space Marine Legion, the honoured sons of the Lion. Striving to atone for a sin ten millennia old, they constantly hunt the mysterious Fallen, and when one of these traitors is in their sight, no enemy or ally is safe from the Dark Angels’ wrath. Amongst their number are many great heroes, the likes of Belial and Sammael, masters of the elite Deathwing and Ravenwing companies whose sworn duty is to hunt and capture the Fallen. Along with their Librarian and Chaplain brethren and the Supreme Grand Master Azrael, they are the Lords of Caliban.

The heroes of the Dark Angels take to the battlefield and show why they are the leaders of the Chapter and the Lords of Caliban. Belial, Master of the Deathwing, and Sammael, Master of the Ravenwing, both relive the battles that led to their ascension. Other tales tie in to the Legacy of Caliban series, including a chilling scene from Master of Sanctity shown from another, horrifying, perspective.

This anthology contains six short stories featuring some of the mightiest heroes of the Dark Angels.
Honour of the Third , A Hunt in the Dark and Battle Brothers have previously been available as eBooks. Accept No Failure and Holder of the Keys have been released as audio dramas. All of these are appearing in print for the first time. All Must End has been previously published in the event anthology Honour of the Space Marines .

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k, Anthologies

142 pages, Hardcover

First published June 20, 2015

About the author

Gav spent 14 years as a developer for Games Workshop, and started writing novels and short stories in the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 when the Black Library imprint was launched in 1997.

He continues to write for Black Library, and his first 'homegrown' novel series The Crown of the Blood has been released via Angry Robot.

Currently living in Nottingham, Gav shares his home with his loving and very understanding partner - Kez, and their beautiful little boy - Sammy.

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Hunt in the Dark: 5 stars

Honour of the Third: 3 stars

Holder of the Keys: 3 stars

Battle Brothers: 4 stars

All Must End: 4 stars

Accept No Failure: 4 stars

A good Dark Angels anthology, but almost all short tales are tie-ins/lost chapters/"Deleted-Extended scenes" to the Legacy of Caliban trilogy Ravenwing and Master of Sanctity novels.
Better reading them in the Legacy of Caliban Omnibus, after reading Angels of Darkness and The Purging of Kadillus novels.

[Andrei88 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it more then Sons of Corax, it had fights and character moments, the last story was a bit of a downer and I remember reading it in another collection.

[Ken Giles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not my favourite of his books but still an enjoyable read.

[James Mckernan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great short stories, ties in well with other DA books and audio dramas

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of entertaining, fast-paced short stories centred on the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter that was, for me at least, marred by a number of distracting proofing and editing errors that really pulled me out of the experience; the kind of errors that a spell check would have flagged let alone a professional editor. For a book so beautifully bound and presented, containing some really good sci-fi writing, it's a real shame for it to be let down by poor editing.

[Cory Rathbun · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great collection of stories. I particularly liked the one with Harahel, and the one with Gideon & Cassiel. The Apothecarion needs more stories!

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting series of shorts focused on the 1st Legion, if you like the Sons of the Lion I would recommend this.