Battle of the Fang By Chris Wraight (June 2011)
Echoes of the past and hints of the future… That is why I love Battle of the Fang so much. That, and the book gives a sense of closure to some of the events that started in A Thousand Sons, in fact it’s hard not to call A Thousand Sons, Prospero Burns, and Battle of the Fang a trilogy and the best thing about it is; you realize that the story doesn’t stop here. You finish this book and it becomes apparent that these warriors are destined to fight on, down through the millennia, eternally engaged in a struggle in which neither side can actually win. I know this is a tagline for the Warhammer 40k Universe but, I’ve never seen it more vividly described than in this book. It is the existence of humanity in the year 40,000 put into the microcosm of the conflict between the Thousand Sons and the Vlka Fenryka aka The Rout, more infamously known as the Space Wolves. Just like the rest of the known universe, circumstances of the heresy have doomed both chapters into becoming “stillborn and unrealized” shadows of what they once were and could have been. There is tragedy here, sure as shit, and bravo to Mr. Wraight for capturing it so vividly. The destruction of Prospero, the breaking of Magnus, the departure of Russ, the Wolf Brothers… it all comes to a head in this novel. Something that took me by surprise in this book was the amount of Easter eggs and teases Wraight crammed into it. It literally left me drooling for more. For me, Chris Wraight is the most exciting new Black Library author to come along since Aaron Dembski Bowden and there were some great new authors who released 40k stuff this year. I’m really hoping he writes an entire Heresy novel sometime soon and there was a bit at the end of Battle of the Fang where he seems to be setting up some further Space Wolf stuff. Please tell me Chris Wraight is going to write more on the Space Wolves!!!
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