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First Contact Day 2016 postponed
A quick update: the organizers of the FIRST CONTACT DAY 2016 convention in Telford I was scheduled to attend with fellow STAR TREK writers Una McCormack and Larry Nemecek have announced that the ...
New book day - Star Trek: The Latter Fire
New book day is always the best day. .
Horus Heresy Weekender 2016
Welcome to February; hopefully this month will have less blood on its hands, but it is kicking off with a bang (or more accurately, a dakka) as the HORUS HERESY WEEKENDER 2016 event happens up in...
Tales of the Knights Errant
Since Monday, Black Library have been running one of their regular 'Quick Reads' weeks, releasing a digital eBook short story each day for direct download from the BL website. This week's storie...
Something Borrowed (2016 Edition)
We're reaching the end of January, and that means it's time for the gift that keeps on giving (to writers, editors, illustrators et al). The Public Lending Right. For those unfamiliar with the P...
Deus Ex Is Freedom
I'd like to think that all the nice people out there who read this blog have of course already played the excellent DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, which I am proud to say got me a BAFTA nomination fo...
2K15 Games
And so it ends for another year, as my last list-o-stuff presents the games that ate my free time in 2015 - but that said, while I played a third more games than I did in 2014, strangely it felt ...
2K15 Movies
The fun never ends here at RED FLAG, as I desperately try to quantify the passage of my years with lists of things; today's vision of months past takes stock of all the feature films I absorbed, ...
2K15 Books
After the self-refection comes the inevitable list-o-rama: Part One - Books! Does anyone out there read these? I'm not sure, but be honest at this stage, I'm just doing this as a way to keep sco...
Fifteen'd
And we're done. Wow. It's not an exaggeration for me to say that 2015 did its absolute best to try and stop me from getting out with my sanity in one piece; but now I stand on the shores of 2016,...
Make Your VOW OF FAITH
Nathaniel Garro has undoubtedly been one of the breakout character of the HORUS HERESY saga, and ever since he appeared in THE FLIGHT OF THE EISENSTEIN, fans have been asking when he was going to...
Christmas Bundles!
You can stay bundled up this Christmas - digitally, that is - with a bunch of mega-package offers from Black Library's WARHAMMER 40,000 and HORUS HERESY ranges, available over the next week or so...
The Official Horus Heresy Reading Order
With the epic scope of the HORUS HERESY fiction, it's sometimes daunting to new readers who want to come into the saga and enjoy the various novels, novellas, short stories and audio dramas. So ...
I Speak Games
In what has now become something of an annual pre-Christmas tradition, Siobhán Thomas of the London South Bank University - she's Senior Lecturer and Course Director of the BA (Hons) Game Cultur...
DEUS EX gets AUGed
DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED is due out next year, and the anticipation has been high since we first busted out our reveal trailer; but one thing a decade and a half of working in the games industry ...
The Blood Angels Collection
Another week and another re-release from out of the blue (or maybe red, in this case); Black Library have compiled all four of my WARHAMMER 40,000 Blood Angels novels - DEUS ENCARMINE , DEUS SANG...
SCI FI Bromley on Saturday
Ah, Bromley; you might not think it, but this leafy London suburb has always a dash of science fiction running through its streets. HG Wells spent a troubled childhood there before going on to wr...
Hear THE VOICE
Like John Farnham once said, we can write what we wanna write, and a few years back I wrote "THE VOICE", a short story for the HORUS HERESY anthology TALES OF HERESY. Featuring characters from m...
You Are Hearing Me Talk... To Cloud City Casino
Earlier this month I was pleased to be interviewed by Michael and Bruce over at the CLOUD CITY CASINO podcast, which is part of THE STAR WARS REPORT and dedicated to all things gaming-related in ...
STAR TREK - THE LATTER FIRE cover
It's only been a couple of weeks since my STAR TREK: TITAN novel SIGHT UNSEEN hit the stores, but now I can reveal Tony Mauro's amazing art for my next work of STAR TREK fiction, a novel set duri...
GARRO RETURNS!
Over at Warhammer World this weekend a whole bunch of new HORUS HERESY stuff is being shown as part of Games Workshop's Open Day event - and among those things was the first official announcement...
You Are Hearing Me Talk...to Literary Treks
Top chaps Dan Gunther and Matt Rushing, the genial hosts of TREK.FM's LITERARY TREKS podcast, have put up their new show this week - and it features me talking about my newest STAR TREK: TITAN no...
You Are Hearing Me Talk....About DISNEY INFINITY & STAR WARS
So DISNEY INFINITY 3.0 has been out for a couple of weeks now, and the STAR WARS prequel-era TWILIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC playset I worked on has been joined by the RISE OF THE EMPIRE playset from th...
DEUS EX & DARK FUTURE interviews
Recently I chatted to the GAME DEBATE website about a couple of futuristic game projects I've been working on - DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED and DARK FUTURE: BLOOD RED STATES - and they've now posted...