GWS-BL3168 Games Workshop Black Library Warhammer 40,000: Genefather

About This Book

Belisarius Cawl has a theory about the pylon network, the structures an ancient race left scattered across the galaxy, and he believes they can be made to blunt the pull of the Great Rift. What he needs is other people's cooperation, which he has never been good at asking for. So he convenes representatives from across the Imperium on the artificial world of Pontus Avernes and prepares to convince them by being obviously right.

Fabius Bile turns up uninvited. He is the only other mind in the galaxy operating at Cawl's level, he has spent ten thousand years on his own project, and his methods make Cawl's look positively conservative, which takes some doing.

The pleasure of the book is that these are two versions of the same man. Both will do anything for the work. The difference between them is where they stopped, and the novel is honest that Cawl stopped later than he likes to admit.

Who It's For

Adeptus Mechanicus collectors and anyone who enjoys the more baroque end of Warhammer 40,000. This is a novel about ideas and rivalry rather than a battle narrative, and both leads are talkers.

Readers who came to Cawl through Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work will find this the direct continuation of that thread. Newcomers can start here; the setup is laid out from scratch.

Reference Numbers

BL3168