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Black Library Advent Calendar 2018 #11
The Deserter
Advent Calendar 2018: Day Eleven
A chance encounter with a stranger known only as "The Deserter" might be just what Corenne needs as she struggles to survive in Necromunda's underhive.
LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE
It's a tale of faith, hope and sheet dumb luck from the underhive, filled with fascinating characters and chance encounters.
THE STORY
In the underhive of Necromunda, the only law that really matters is that might is right and unless you can defend what's yours, someone else will claim it. That's what happened to Corenne. When the Thunder Knuckle Posse came, they took control of the Sweet Drop Still, sending her family packing. Now, she wants it back, and a chance encounter with a ragged old man known only as "The Deserter" who claims to have fought in the armies of the vaunted Lord Solar might just be her salvation – or at least revenge.
Running time 27 minutes. Performed by Steve Conlin, Toby Longworth, Carla Medonca & Jo Woodcock.
A chance encounter with a stranger known only as "The Deserter" might be just what Corenne needs as she struggles to survive in Necromunda's underhive.
LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE
It's a tale of faith, hope and sheet dumb luck from the underhive, filled with fascinating characters and chance encounters.
THE STORY
In the underhive of Necromunda, the only law that really matters is that might is right and unless you can defend what's yours, someone else will claim it. That's what happened to Corenne. When the Thunder Knuckle Posse came, they took control of the Sweet Drop Still, sending her family packing. Now, she wants it back, and a chance encounter with a ragged old man known only as "The Deserter" who claims to have fought in the armies of the vaunted Lord Solar might just be her salvation – or at least revenge.
Running time 27 minutes. Performed by Steve Conlin, Toby Longworth, Carla Medonca & Jo Woodcock.
- GenresScience Fiction
1 pages, Audiobook
First published December 11, 2018
About the author
Justin D. Hill
52 books79 followersJustin D. Hill is the creator of Minka Lesk and the author of the Warhammer 40,000 novels Cadia Stands, Cadian Honour, Traitor Rock, Shadow of the Eighth, Hell’s Last and Pilgrims of Fire. His other Black Library fiction ranges from the underhives of Necromunda in Terminal Overkill to the darkness of The Bookkeeper’s Skull and the battlefields of the Space Marines.
He has been part of the Warhammer hobby for most of his life. He bought his first White Dwarf at the age of ten, became a long-time Imperial Guard player, and has accumulated armies, miniatures and rather more unpainted plastic than is probably reasonable.
As Justin Hill, he is an award-winning novelist whose work has three times been nominated for the Booker Prize. In 2001, The Independent on Sunday named him one of the UK's Top Twenty Young British Writers.
Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, he grew up in York and studied Old English and Medieval Literature at Durham University. After graduating, he spent seven years working with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and Eritrea.
Much of his writing career has been devoted to stories about people caught up in the collapse of worlds, from the fall of Cadia to England on the eve of the Norman Conquest, the upheavals of modern China and the aftermath of war in Eritrea.
He travelled overland from China to Europe twice, once on the Trans-Siberian Railway and once through the Hindu Kush. His time in Eritrea ended dramatically in June 1998, when he was airlifted out through a recently bombed airport, with Ethiopian fighter jets circling overhead.
His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a Betty Trask Award, was chosen by The Washington Post as one of the top novels of 2001, and was banned in China. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Ciao Asmara, his account of his years in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
His historical novels Shieldwall and Viking Fire explore the wars and upheavals that culminated in the Norman Conquest. Shieldwall was chosen by The Sunday Times as a Book of the Year, while Viking Fire, which follows the extraordinary life of Harald Hardrada, was a Times Book of the Year.
He was also selected to write Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, the novelisation of the sequel to the Oscar-winning film.
His books have been translated into seventeen languages.
He lives in the foothills of the North Yorkshire Moors, where he still paints and plays Warhammer.
He has been part of the Warhammer hobby for most of his life. He bought his first White Dwarf at the age of ten, became a long-time Imperial Guard player, and has accumulated armies, miniatures and rather more unpainted plastic than is probably reasonable.
As Justin Hill, he is an award-winning novelist whose work has three times been nominated for the Booker Prize. In 2001, The Independent on Sunday named him one of the UK's Top Twenty Young British Writers.
Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, he grew up in York and studied Old English and Medieval Literature at Durham University. After graduating, he spent seven years working with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and Eritrea.
Much of his writing career has been devoted to stories about people caught up in the collapse of worlds, from the fall of Cadia to England on the eve of the Norman Conquest, the upheavals of modern China and the aftermath of war in Eritrea.
He travelled overland from China to Europe twice, once on the Trans-Siberian Railway and once through the Hindu Kush. His time in Eritrea ended dramatically in June 1998, when he was airlifted out through a recently bombed airport, with Ethiopian fighter jets circling overhead.
His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a Betty Trask Award, was chosen by The Washington Post as one of the top novels of 2001, and was banned in China. His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Ciao Asmara, his account of his years in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
His historical novels Shieldwall and Viking Fire explore the wars and upheavals that culminated in the Norman Conquest. Shieldwall was chosen by The Sunday Times as a Book of the Year, while Viking Fire, which follows the extraordinary life of Harald Hardrada, was a Times Book of the Year.
He was also selected to write Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, the novelisation of the sequel to the Oscar-winning film.
His books have been translated into seventeen languages.
He lives in the foothills of the North Yorkshire Moors, where he still paints and plays Warhammer.
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December 12, 2018
First audio for Necromunda! It was fun. I thought I realized how it was going to go and thought it was gonna be really cheesy, but it went a different direction. Still kinda cheesy, but much better than where I thought it was going.
December 12, 2018
Corenne and her mother have been driven out of their home and forced to scrape a living in Dust Falls, scrabbling in the dust and hawking what few possessions they still have. Starving and desperate, Corenne turns to a strange, barely-lucid ex-soldier in the hope that he can help her reclaim her home, but the Deserter seems bound to let her down.
It’s a spot-on Necromunda story, full of rough-edged and worn down characters living on the fringes and somehow surviving, and an engaging opportunity to live inside the everyday struggles of the underhive a little.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/12/...
It’s a spot-on Necromunda story, full of rough-edged and worn down characters living on the fringes and somehow surviving, and an engaging opportunity to live inside the everyday struggles of the underhive a little.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/12/...
October 9, 2023
Despite the production value this was a nothing of a story. Can't give it more than 2 stars.
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