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Friday 16th of July, 2010
Interview with the author of Space Marine
Earlier this year, once it had been cleared by the Inquisition, we took time out to ask a few questions to the legend that is Ian Watson, to celebrate the Print-on-Demand re-issue of Space Marine.
Looking back now, would you say you were still happy with Space Marine or, knowing what you know now, would you change anything about it?
Personally I’d change nothing about the book itself, since changing it would lose freshness and spontaneity. I do myself regard Space Marine as part of the Inquisition War series – and indeed it is thus in the gigantic Hungarian language omnibus edition – since my Space Marine, Lexandro d’Arquebus, plays a role in Harlequin and then a major role in Chaos Child.
Read the rest of the interview.
Posted by The Black Library Team
Comments
Entomophobie said:
Very nice interview. It's interesting to hear retrospective comments from early author like Ian Watson. If a 40K novel required now an encyclopaedic study, what about a Warhammer Time of Legend project? ; )
July 16th, 2010
Richard said:
Just finished reading this, absolutely brilliant. Is great to go back and read some of the early format books. its got a gritty element to the 40K universe that the new books dont seem to have.
August 5th, 2010