Tales of the Old World (131 page)

William King was born in Stranraer, Scotland, in 1959.

His short stories have appeared in
The Year’s Best SF,
Zenith, White Dwarf
and
Interzone.
He is also the author of seven
Gotrek & Felix novels, four volumes chronicling the adventures of the Space
Marine warrior, Ragnar Blackmane, as well as the Warhammer 40,000 novel
Farseer.
He currently lives in Scotland.

Nick Kyme hails from Grimsby, a small town on the northeast
coast of England known for its fish (a food which, ironically, he dislikes
profusely). Nick moved to Nottingham in 2003 to work on
White Dwarf
magazine, but has since made the switch to the Black Library, where he works
as an editor. He’s written several short stories and the Necromunda novel,
Back from the Dead.

Nathan Long has worked as a screenwriter for fifteen years,
during which time he has had three movies made and a handful of live-action and animated TV episodes produced. He
has also written three Warhammer novels featuring the Blackhearts, several
award-winning short stories and the Gotrek & Felix novel
Orcslayer.
He
lives in Hollywood.

Neil McIntosh was born in Sussex in 1957. He has contributed
stories for the Warhammer anthologies,
White Dwarf
and other magazines,
and is the author of several novels.

Hailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a
career in surveying to join Games Workshop, where he worked as a games developer
for six years. In addition to seven novels of carnage and mayhem, Graham has
also written a host of short stories. He lives in Nottingham, England.

Sandy Mitchell is a pseudonym of Alex Stewart, who has been
working as a freelance writer for the last couple of decades. He has written
science fiction and fantasy in both personae, as well as television scripts,
magazine articles, comics and gaming material. Apart from both miniatures and
roleplaying gaming his hobbies include the martial arts of Aikido and Iaido,
rifle shooting, and playing the guitar badly.

Chris Pramas is an award-winning game designer whose
punk-fuelled writing has infected the game industry for over a decade. He is the
founder and president of Green Ronin, a leading publisher of roleplaying games. He is also the
designer of the new edition of
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

Gordon Rennie is the writer of
Missionary Man
and
Glimmer Rats
for
2000AD,
Bloodquest and Kal Jerico for
Warhammer
Monthly,
and other stories for
Inferno!

Neil Rutledge is a veteran of the Games Workshop universe (he
still has some of his first Citadel Miniatures, purchased at eighteen pence
each!). He lives in Carlisle and lectures in science education.

Greeted with the words “Good Lord, it can’t be human!” at the
occasion of his birth, Mitchel Scanlon would in time confound medical experts
and religious leaders alike by mastering the intricacies of human speech and
upright posture. More recently, he has embarked on a career as a writer of
novels, comics and short stories. His previous credits for the Black Library
include
Fifteen Hours, The Loathsome Ratmen
and the comics series
Tales of Hellbrandt Grimm.

Gav Thorpe works for Games Workshop in his capacity as Lead
Background Designer, overseeing and contributing to the Warhammer and Warhammer
40,000 worlds. He has a dozen or so short stories to his name and over half a
dozen novels.

James Wallis started his first magazine at fourteen. Since
then he has been a TV presenter, world-record holder, games designer, political
firebrand, auctioneer, convention organiser and internet commentator. His
proudest moment is being called “slick” by the News of the World. He lives in
London, has no cats, hears everything and does not sleep.

Robert has been an avid Games Workshop enthusiast for as long
as he can remember, and has worked in the computer gaming industry for over 12
years. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and their young son. Robert
is an assistant editor for
Weird Tales
and his fiction has appeared in
Weird Tales
and
Nth Degree.

C.L. Werner was born in New York in 1973. An avid and voracious
reader almost before he could walk, he began trying his hand at writing stories
of his own in grade school and never quite kicked the habit. Extremely interested
in bygone eras, he has been involved in both American Civil War re-enactments
and Wild West stunt shows.

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