Black Library, publisher of the Warhammer series and others, is beginning ebook publishing in October. As part of the launch, they’re also going to start publishing a download-only short fiction magazine, to be called Hammer and Bolter.
It will be a mix of tie-ins to their existing lines, serializations of upcoming BL novels, and other fiction. Lined up for the debut issue, they have a brand new Dan Abnett short story, “a sneak peek at the first Chapter of Prospero Burnsa good three months in advance of its publication date. Ben Counter and the Soul Drinkers storm back onto the page with the first two chapters of Phalanx—the Black Library’s first ever serialized novel that will be published in its entirety over H&B’s first year of publication. Anthony Reynolds contributes an entire novella continuing the adventures of Calard from his Bretonnian Knight novels while Sarah Cawkwell makes her Black Library fiction bow with a tale of the Silver Skulls chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. And Nick Kyme is finally hunted down by The Inquisition and forced to answer questions about his current and forthcoming novels.
“As exciting as all of the above is, possibly the most exciting thing about the first issue is that we have a previously unpublished John Brunner short story featuring none other than Gotrek & Felix! Written twenty years ago, the story has been sitting on various hard drives for the past two decades and, as far as we’re aware, is the last remaining unpublished story by the Hugo Award-winning author who sadly died in 1995.”
Each issue will be priced at £2.50, but they’ll be giving away the debut issue for free. See this post for more information.