Warhammer originally started out as a miniature table top fantasy rule system in the early 80's if I remember right, then latter 80's they came out with the first edition of the RPG rule set for pen and pencil gaming.
Warhammer is Games Workshop's property and it's made to sell lots of miniatures. It's still pretty popular today although what used to be metal miniatures has gone to more plastic type materials. I think the RPG is now produced by another company that licenses it from Games Workshop. So it's still alive in a somewhat different edition. Their miniature side though has always been their bread winner. Not sure how well their books are doing although I've seen more of both the fantasy side and their Warhammer 40k being published lately it seems like. And a far about of older ones being reissued in deluxe volumes. They also have a SF version called Warhammer 40k as well. And both have a lot of spinoff products of various types. Keith ________________________________ From: Raymond Feist/New ATT <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:21 PM Subject: Re: New Sci Fi book? On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Christopher Grouse <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed that the genre has leant toward the fantasy side rather than SF > (I'm not going to demean it by calling if 'sci fi'), over the last few years > I've enjoyed SF by Jack Campbell and David Feintuch, both of which I > discovered by accident. Also the Asimov, Julian May and Arthur C Clarke stuff > is awesome! > It IS a shame, as SF still has so much to offer the reader, and it does make > a change from the fantasy stuff too. For me, I don't care that science has > proved some of the older works of SF wrong or made some things sound silly or > even made SF less interesting through technological progress, if the book is > well written and has deep and interesting characters, then I'll read any of > it, even HG Wells or Jules Verne. > > Ray, speaking of licensed stuff, have you come across any of the Warhammer > 40k SF books in the USA? My friend got me into these, I started with a series > of books called 'The Horus Heresy', which is an ongoing series by various > authors, all based around the history of the 40k universe, very action packed > and quite dark and violent, but thoroughly good books with great characters > and an epic plot. I didn't even know that the books were based on the > Warhammer Role playing games until another friend told me... Haven't read any Warhammer. If I recall, that's a basically British RGP that spun off some serious license stuff, like Wizards of the Coast did in the US. Best, R.E.F.
