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The Traitor and the Alien

Warhammer 40,000

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The Traitor and the Alien

By: Aaron Demski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, Anthony Reynolds, John French, Josh Reynolds, Ben Count, Ian St. Martin, Gav Thorpe, Rob Sanders, Andy Smillie, Guy Hayley
Narrated by: John Banks, Gareth Armstrong, Sean Barrett, Robin Bowerman, Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Annemarie Gaillard, David Seddon
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About this listen

A Warhammer 40,000 Audio Drama Collection

Traitor Space Marines and xenos races with their own hopes for galactic conquest pose endless threats to humanity, and this collection of audio dramas takes you deep into their territory with full-cast recordings.

Listen to it because: learn more about legendary characters from the ranks of the xenos and the Traitor Astartes, including Ahriman of the Thousand Sons, Fabius Bile of the Emperor's Children, Asurmen of the Craftworld Aeldari and more. Explore these fan-favourite characters as written by Black Library stalwarts including Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French and Guy Haley.

Contents:

  • Throne of Lies by Aaron-Dembski Bowden
  • Perfection by Nick Kyme
  • Chosen of Khorne by Anthony Reynolds
  • Ahriman: The First Prince by John French
  • Fabius Bile: Repairer of Ruin by Josh Reynolds
  • Key of Infinity by John French
  • Heart of Decay by Ben Counter
  • The Embrace of Pain by Ian St Martin
  • Asurmen: The Darker Road by Gav Thorpe
  • Howl of the Banshee by Gav Thorpe
  • The Path Forsaken by Rob Sanders
  • Heirs of the Laughing God: A Deadly Wit by Gav Thorpe
  • Heirs of the Laughing God: Death's Mercy by Gav Thorpe
  • Hand of Darkness by Gav Thorpe
  • The Kauyon by Andy Smillie
  • Klaw of Mork by Guy Haley
  • Prophets of Waaagh! by Guy Haley
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This is a very neat collection of short audio dramas for someone with at least a little bit of prior knowledge about the 40K universe. It might be confusing if you don't yet have a handle on the various Chaos god factions, what a Harlequin or Assassin is, etc. There were a couple less interesting ones but all in all I found them quite engaging to listen to. The sound effects are really well done, whether lasgun fire and clashing steel during a battle, or the echo of footsteps down the halls of a great warship. Most the voices are excellent, though a couple I did find a little hard to hear.

Fun Warhammer Dramas

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If loyalists bore you as much as me there is plenty of entertainment here. I think it's worth it for the two harlequin stories alone, I'd love an entire book of them.

Cegorach Approves

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I bought this specifically for the Harlequin audio dramas, but was pleasantly surprised by what else it had to offer. The quality of audio editing and writing may shift from story to story, but there were some real stand outs, some of which I'd recommend even if it weren't in a bundle. If you're craving a more heretical perspective - or have interest in a particular story on its list - its worth giving this collection a try, and hopefully you'll discover something you mightn't have otherwise!

Great deal, good stories

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eldar stories are the let down seem very human but aside from that, ork stories are best and it was great value

chaos is awesome

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the first few were average, the harlequin stories were phenominal and it rounded out well with prophets of waaaggghhh

the first fewbaudio drama performances were kind of average

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Love the performances by all involved, my favourite is Prophets of the Waaagh, proper orky.

Excellent

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found that some stories were hard to listen to with too much background sound effects to make it easy to listen to.

bit disappointed

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