The adventures of wily Commissar Cain, his malodorous aide Jurgen, and the 296th Valhallans have proved great favourites among Black Library fans. This omnibus edition is an attractive introduction to a very popular series.
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Sandy Mitchell is a pseudonym for British author Alex Stewart. He has written science fiction and fantasy, television scripts, comics, and gaming material. His television credits include the BBC’s high tech espionage series Bugs.
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Dark humor at its best,
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This review is from: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Paperback)
Even thought the WH 40k universe can be a dark and trecherous landscape Sandy Mitchell's character has a way of projecting his own sort of humor on every situation. The book takes place over the first three installments in Commissar Ciaphos Cains adventures along with a few short stories.
The best part of Mitchell's books is that they are humorous but not to the point of absurdity. The author does a good job of interjecting humor into most situations will stil being able to maintain a sense of suspense, adventure, or tension. The characters are well thought out and even though a good portion of the book is written from the point of view of Commissar Cain, the natual and self depricating style and angle from which it is written draw you into Cains world and psyche and make you root for him even though you get the sense that like the rest of us he only ends up in the most heroic of situations only be accident and only claims credit when it is advantagous and his original intentions are misconstrued.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Ciaphas Cain is My Hero,
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This review is from: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Paperback)
Sandy Mitchell is brightest gem in the Black Library treasure trove, and this collection demonstrates why. His Ciaphas Cain series is hilarious, rich with background flavor, and action-packed when it needs to be. More so than any other Black Library author, his books are compulsively re-readable. His characters will stick with you, giving you a few good laughs just by remembering them. What more can you ask for in a book about from a book based on a tabletop strategy game? It's almost too good to be limited by being a part of a tie-in series. Fortunately, Warhammer 40,000 is a very strong background and Mitchell knows how to play to its strengths even while tweaking its faults.
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Not your average Dark Library offering,
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This review is from: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Paperback)
Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Ciaphas Cain)
While this is in no way a great piece of literature, it is a departure from the monotonous, grinding, slaughter-fests that are the typical offering from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Sandy Mitchell does an excellent job of taking the reader to a far different mindset and writes from a first-person perspective (something that is typically hard to pull off correctly) quite well. Ciaphas Cain is more of a narcissistic character study from an off-kilter mind than a blood-and-guts war story, although there is some of that thrown in for good measure as well. An apt subtitle to this compendium could be something like (Self-preservation, or how I learned how to run like hell!) While there are some noteworthy titles from other authors writing for the Black Library, no other author has actually pulled me into the Warhammer 40K universe as completely as this one. This is a very human perspective thrown against the backdrop of Aliens, Demons, and Genetically modified Super-Humans, and even the dark humor was written surprising well into the story. This series really pulls you onto the battlefields, and into the intrigues, and the plot and the writing style keep you submerged there.
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