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Ciaphas Cain: The Anthology

Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000

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Ciaphas Cain: The Anthology

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Phillipe Bosher
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A Ciaphas Cain Anthology

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy.

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Ciaphas Cain doesn’t mean to be a hero – he just can’t seem to help it. While trying to escape certain death, he somehow achieves unlikely victory after victory in the wildest and most dangerous warzones of the galaxy, to hilarious effect.

THE STORY

Ciaphas Cain is a true hero. Brave, stalwart, uncompromising, a cool head under fire...or is he? His legend has spread far and wide, but only Cain himself knows the truth behind his long and storied career.

Until now.

Inquisitor Amberley Vail once more delves into the Cain archive to present a selection of the man’s greatest and strangest exploits. From Cain and the Valhallan 597th hunting down the source of a warp-tainted infection that threatens to overwhelm the world of Lentonia with a starving horde of undead, to his early years with the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery fending off a tyranid invasion on a barren mining world, to the mysterious death of a fellow commissar that sees Cain’s life at risk (once again) as the killer’s attention turns to him...

CONTENTS

This anthology contains the novella Old Soldiers Never Die and the following short stories:

- Fight or Flight
- The Beguiling
- Echoes of the Tomb
- Sector Thirteen
- Traitor's Gambit
- A Mug of Recaff
- The Smallest Detail
- The Little Things
- Last Night at the Resplendent
- The Bigger They Are
- The Only Good Ork
- Three Questions
- Rotten to the Core

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Narrated by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory and Phillipe Bosher. Running time 6 hours, 28 minutes (approx).

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Ever wonder about all those references to Cains past life or the time in between books? Wonder no more! At last you can "read" them all for yourself and enjoy some of the moments that made Cain the Hero of the imperium he is

A must for Cain enthusiasts

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I truly think that Sandy Mitchell is one of the best 40K Authors.

He brings humour in such a dark grin universe, This anthology fills in the games between all the books. #

Sometimes I think Sandy just looks about the room when thinking of a Character name, "ohhh look Winnie the pooh book from Son/Daughter" = Winneth Pooh or Eeyour Dedonki, I feel its playing with the reader a lot. The fact that Eeyour DeDonki is the author of Memoirs of a Pessimist made me giggle.

Or a member of the Adaptus Mechanicus. "Atomic batteries to power, Turbines to speed". A refence to the the 60s show Batman.

Predator refences with "If it bleeds we can kill it"

The books are full of cute call backs and references that make it the series worth reading above all other authors.

I wait and wait for the third book of Penitent by Dan Abnett, but Mitchell just pumps out better books more often.

Fills in the gaps

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All good as usual great stuff with multiple small and not so small stories just enough to listen to on a short car journey to work

Great variety

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As good as you'd expect from this serie, both in writing and performance. A wonderful listen.

Consistently Great

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Always wanted to know the background to some of the references mentioned in the Cain novels. Enjoyed ever bit of it.

Great listen

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