While engaged in a mission to destroy sslyth breeding grounds and stall their invasion of Imperial territories, Zameon Gydrael encounters an ancient foe of the Dark Angels Chapter – one of the legendary Fallen.
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It's not easy being a Dark Angel. Keeping all those secrets is tough enough even amongst other Dark Angels, but in the Deathwatch, it can be deadly. When Gydrael spots a Fallen in the midst of a vital alien-hunting mission, his decision to place Chapter above duty probably isn't going to end well for him... or anyone else.

In the upper reaches of Theron, vast arco-refineries harvest the volatile atmospheric lightning storms, and it was this that brought the orks. The Space Wolves sent by Kjarl Grimblood to relieve the Adeptus Mechanicus defenders fight valiantly – none more so than the fierce young Blood Claw Drenn – but it is the expertise of the assigned Deathwatch kill-team that promises to turn the greenskin tide. Even so, Drenn's reckless actions once again draw the wrath of his commander, and the self-styled 'Redblade' must pay the price...
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It's a look at one of the ways in which the Deathwatch recruit – and shows how they fight alongside other Space Marines, in this case Space Wolves who're not keen on playing nicely with others.

The Raven Guard embark on missions of subterfuge and stealth to defeat the forces of Chaos.

The Raven Guard are Space Marines like no other. The sons of Corax fight their battles with stealth and speed rather than fury and flame. As shadows of death, they appear behind enemy lines and strike without mercy or restraint. Chaos engulfs the Sargassion Reach, and Captain Koryn’s Raven Guard lead the fight against the pestilent forces of Nurgle. But they are not alone, the Brazen Minotaurs – led by the headstrong Captain Daed – aiding them in their mission. Can the two Chapters bring their wildly different tactics together to defeat the foe and save the Sargassion Reach from damnation?

Humanity's front-line defenders, the Imperial Guard, are aware of the risks to their bodies in defending the species, but they did not count on the damage to their souls. Reprint.

The heretical forces of Chaos fight back in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, cutting off Imperial forces. Gaunt and his men must recapture the key world Phantine, in order to save the Emperor's beleaguered forces. Now available in a brand new edition, with awesome new cover art.

In the Chaos-infested Sabbat system, Imperial Commissar Gaunt must lead his men through as much in-fighting amongst rival regiments as against the forces of Chaos.For a thousand years, the Sabbat Worlds have been lost to the Imperium, claimed by the dread powers of Chaos. Now, a mighty crusade seeks to return the sector to Imperial rule. And at the forefront of that crusade are Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only – better known as Gaunt’s Ghosts. Trapped in the grinding trench warfare of Fortis Binary, the Ghosts find themselves drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the crusade’s leader, Warmaster Macaroth. With enemies all around them and no one to trust, Gaunt and his men must find a way to save the warmaster and prevent the Sabbat Worlds Crusade from falling into anarchy – even if it means waging war on their supposed allies.Read by Toby Longworth.

Commissar Gaunt and his Ghosts return to action on a mission to a distant shrine world to bring back a priceless spiritual relic, the remains of an ancient saint who first led humankind to the stars, but the forces of Chaos will do anything to stop them. Original.

More machine than Space Marine, the Iron Hand Ennox Sorrlock has still become a formidable weapon of the Deathwatch Chapter. His mind is a logic engine with only one purpose – to slay the xenos. But when Chaplain Cassius offers him the chance to take part in a new mission against the same dark eldar raiders who crippled him and slaughtered all his brethren so many years before, Sorrlock’s lack of emotional response is... unexpected. Will he do his duty, or is he simply biding his time in order to confront the foul creature known only as the Black Spider?
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It's a portrait of an Iron Hands Space Marine who joins the Deathwatch for all the wrong reasons – but he might just be able to turn that into victory against the eldar. Then again, he might not...

Brother-Codicier Jensus Natorian of the Blood Ravens has served the Deathwatch for many years, bringing his psychic talents to bear against the hated xenos on countless battlefields. However, when his original Chapter request aid in combating a genestealer infestation within the space hulk Endless Despair, he is compelled to answer this new call to duty in person. Will an unexpected reunion with his old mentor, Librarian Captain Lanneus, on board the hulk herald the beginning of greater cooperation between the Chapters, or something much darker?
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A Space Marine Librarian turned against his brothers by the power of the Hive Mind? Sounds like a winning read to us.

The third installment in this series from Gameshop's Warhammer 40,000 finds Commissar Gaunt and his Legion, or "Ghosts", back in Alien Worlds, embroiled in an ancient and deadly civil war between the nine noble houses of the shattered planet of Verghast.

Jetek Suberei is a true son of Chogoris. With his trusty cyber-eagle Vengla at his side, he races over the open plains on his assault bike, undertaking long range missions for the Deathwatch with the same feral glee as he once did for the White Scars Chapter. Now, on the bleak, sun-parched world of Ballestae, he ventures into eldar territory to ascertain why the Wild Riders of Saim-Hann have halted their seemingly unstoppable advance. Jetek Suberei will learn all – for is he not the living hurricane, master of the steppes and always first to hunt?
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When the Deathwatch fight in fiction, it's usually in kill-teams – so to see a Deathwatch warrior on his own (apart from his pet cyber-eagle, of course) is something new and different indeed. And when it's a bike-mounted warrior of the White Scars seeking info about the swiftest of eldar, there's a good chance that fast-paced action will follow in his wake.

Tracking his prey through the verdant jungle, Edryc Setorax strikes from the shadows like a phantom. Under the command of the xenos-hating Inquisitor Gravelyn, the Raven Guard veteran is scouting the movements and command structure of eldar exodite forces, trying to ascertain what their mysterious goals might be. But by using his own Deathwwatch kill team as bait, Setorax stumbles upon a much larger struggle, and realises that his own reputation amongst the eldar has become almost the stuff of alien legend…
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It's the tale of a sneaky and stealthy Raven Guard who's not above risking the lives of his Deathwatch team for the good of the mission

The Deathwatch strike cruiser Incontrovertible Truth, en route to Watch Fortress Erioch, carries many kill-teams to their next mission postings, among their number is Antor Delassio, the 'cursed young prince' of the Blood Angels. Without warning, the ship comes under attack by Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion, and it falls to Delassio and his battle-brothers to repel the boarders. But his exemplary record in battle and his righteous hatred of the xenos is marred by the secret shame he carries with him, the curse of his Chapter's bloodline.
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Find out what a Blood Angel does when he's all alone, far from Baal and suffering from the Black Rage. It's the biggest secret of the Chapter, and if Delassio isn't careful, it might just get out...

Deathwatch Chaplain Ortan Cassius, the most honoured battle-brother of the Ultramarines Chapter, is called before a council of watch captains to account for his recent actions – namely the destruction of the Imperial Port Cepheus. With many of his former kill team still unaccounted for, he must justify his use of such extreme measures or face permanent dismissal from the Deathwatch. But Cassius is unconvinced of his superiors’ motives, and begins to delve deeper into the mysterious Ghosar Enigma…
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It's the final instalment in the series, and this time the focus is Chaplain Cassius himself. Discover the hidden past of the future hero of the Tyrannic Wars and his role in one of the most renowned missions of the alien-hunting Deathwatch.

The hive world of Sarastus harbours many secrets, and now many fugitives from the Imperium as well – a rogue Adeptus Mechanicus priest has absconded with several xenos biologis samples, prompting the Inquisition to order an intervention by the Deathwatch. The Salamanders Firedrake Garran Branatar forms part of a specialist Terminator kill-team sent to delve into the darkness beneath Sarastus, bringing the flame and fury of his Chapter in equal measure. But Branatar brings with him the shadowed legacy of his own past as well...
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It's Terminators in a hive world, hunting a tech-priest, and the main character has a secret that could affect the mission.

Engaged in a campaign against the hated greenskins, the Ultramarines bring their righteous fury to the manufactorum city of Skemarchus. Veteran warrior Vael Donatus is hailed as a hero by the young firebrand Chaplain Cassius for employing the expertise of his brethren only recently returned from the hallowed ranks of the Deathwatch. But as the final assault draws near, the judicious and practical methods of the Sternguard seem incompatible with Cassius' own – can the fate of a world really be decided by just one bullet?
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A hero of the Ultramarines before he was famous... Chaplain Cassius kicks ass and takes names as a newly-promoted Chaplain eager to prove himself amongst a load of veterans who think they know better than him. Find out what he was like before he got obsessed with tyranids and see the Ultramarines in a new way.

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom

“Eloquent, clear and profound—this volume is a classic for our times. It draws our attention away from the bright shiny objects of the new colonialism through elucidating the social, material and political dimensions of Artificial Intelligence.”—Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased racial, gender, and economic inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award‑winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us. 
 
Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life chances, and even suggests fascistic solutions to social problems. This book provides an analysis of AI’s deep learning technology and its political effects and traces the ways that it resonates with contemporary political and social currents, from global austerity to the rise of the far right. Dan McQuillan calls for us to resist AI as we know it and restructure it by prioritising the common good over algorithmic optimisation. He sets out an anti-fascist approach to AI that replaces exclusions with caring, proposes people’s councils as a way to restructure AI through mutual aid and outlines new mechanisms that would adapt to changing times by supporting collective freedom. Academically rigorous, yet accessible to a socially engaged readership, this unique book will be of interest to all who wish to challenge the social logic of AI by reasserting the importance of the common good.

Book 3 of the Dark Imperium trilogy

The destinies of primarch and Imperial Regent Roboute Guilliman and his traitorous brother Mortarion come together for the climactic battle of the Plague Wars.

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It's the throwdown you've been waiting for, as Guilliman and Mortarion work out ten thousand years of pent-up resentment in a clash for the ages.

THE STORY
The paths of Roboute Guilliman and his fallen brother Mortarion bring them inexorably together on Iax. Once a jewel of the Imperium, the garden world is dying as the plans of the Lord of Death to use it as a fulcrum to drag the stellar realm of Ultramar into the warp come to deadly fruition.

While Guilliman attempts to prevent the destruction of his kingdom, Mortarion schemes to bring his brother low with the Godblight, a disease created in the Cauldron of Nurgle itself, made with the power to destroy a son of the Emperor.

Primarchs clash on the ravaged landscapes of Iax. The gods go to war and the wider galaxy balances on a knife-edge of destruction. As something powerful stirs in the sea of souls, only one thing is certain – no matter who wins the last great clash of the Plague War, the repercussions of victory will echo through eternity…

The galaxy has changed. Darkness spreads, warp storms split reality and Chaos is everywhere – even Ultramar. As Roboute Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade draws to a close, he must brave the perils of the warp to reach his home and save it from the depredations of the Plague God.

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It's a new beginning for the Warhammer 40,000 universe! Guy Haley crafts a tale of the returned Primarch Roboute Guilliman as he races to save his realm from the servants of Nurgle – it's the perfect accompaniment to the Warhammer 40,000 boxed game!

THE STORY
Fell times have come to the galaxy. Cadia has fallen, destroyed by the onslaught of Chaos. A Great Rift in the warp has opened and from its depths spew daemons and the horrors of Old Night. But all hope is not lost... A hero, long absent, has returned and with him comes the wrath of the Ultramarines reborn. Roboute Guilliman has arisen to lead the Imperium out of darkness on a crusade the likes of which has not been seen since the fabled days of the Emperor. But never before have the forces of Ruin amassed in such numbers, and nowhere is safe from despoliation. From the dreaded Scourge Stars come the hordes of the Plaguefather, Lord Nurgle, and their pustulent eye is fixed on Macragge. As the Indomitas Crusade draws to an end, Guilliman races to Ultramar and a confrontation with the Death Guard.