Broken City

Authors

Robert Rath, Gary Kloster, Chris Wraight, Jonathan D. Beer, Gareth Hanrahan, Noah Van Nguyen

Take another stroll through the back alleys and seedy dens of Varangantua, an Imperial hive city riddled with lawless gangs and filled with the ever-present stench of death. Start with the novella Bleedout, and finish up with six short stories from a variety of Black Library authors, both old and new.

Format

Novel

Era

Classic 40k

Varangantua is broken. Vast, ancient, and crumbling, the city is a breeding ground for crime and corruption. Gangs and criminal cabals rule over massive, lawless territories, and many who claim to enforce the Law are complicit in allowing this rot to spread. The labyrinthine bureaucracy of the Imperium strangles those few idealists who seek to bring order. All the while, deadly, forgotten things lurk in the dark corners of Varangantua’s decaying districts, just waiting to be unearthed…

Robert Rath

Robert Rath is an author and screenwriter from Honolulu, Hawai'i. As an author, he's known for working with the publisher Black Library, writing fiction set in the worlds of Warhammer. His work for them includes the necrons novel THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, the assassins novel ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER, the war epic THE FALL OF CADIA and numerous short stories. Since 2018 he's served as Head Writer of the animated YouTube show Extra History, where his scripts have attracted over 200 million views. He lives in Hong Kong with his family, amid and a growing pile of models he *swears* are for research.

Gary Kloster

Gary Kloster is a writer, a librarian, a martial arts instructor, and stay-at-home father. Sometimes all in the same day, but seldom all at the same time. He lives in the midwest of the United States, surrounded by corn and beset by cats. His stories have appeared in Analog, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, Fantasy Magazine, and many others. He has also written a number of books for the Warhammer 40K and Age of Sigmar universes.

Chris Wraight

Chris Wraight is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His first novel was published in 2008. Since then, he’s published books set in the Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40K, Horus Heresy and Stargate:Atlantis universes.

Jonathan D. Beer

Jonathan D. Beer is a science fiction writer living in Edinburgh, UK. His work in the Warhammer 40,000 universe for Black Library includes the novels The King of the Spoil and Dominion Genesis, and a range of short stories.

Gareth Hanrahan

Gareth Hanrahan’s three-month break from computer programming to concentrate on writing has now lasted fifteen years and counting. He’s written more gaming books than he can readily recall, by virtue of the alchemical transmutation of tea and guilt into words. He lives in Ireland with his wife and three children.

Noah Van Nguyen

Noah Van Nguyen is a freelance writer who lives in the US with his wife. His tales set in the Mortal Realms include the novels Godeater's Son and Yndrasta: The Celestial Spear and the novella Nadir from the Warhammer Underworlds anthology Harrowdeep. He has also written several stories set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, including Elemental Council, ‘The Last Crucible’, and the Warhammer Crime stories ‘No Third Chance’ and 'Carrion Call'. When he’s not writing, Noah enjoys studying foreign languages and exploring far-off lands.