open
Upgrade to a better browser, please.

Search Worlds Without End

Advanced Search
Search Terms:
Author: [x] Gav Thorpe
Award(s):
Hugo
Nebula
BSFA
Mythopoeic
Locus SF
Derleth
Campbell
WFA
Locus F
Prometheus
Locus FN
PKD
Clarke
Stoker
Aurealis SF
Aurealis F
Aurealis H
Locus YA
Norton
Jackson
Legend
Red Tentacle
Morningstar
Golden Tentacle
Holdstock
All Awards
Sub-Genre:
Date Range:  to 

Gav Thorpe


The Crown of the Blood

Crown / Empire of the Blood: Book 1

Gav Thorpe

He had brought his master's Empire to the furthest reaches of the world. All had fallen before him. Now he longs for home.

But home isn't what it was. Could it be that everything he's fought for all those years has been a lie?

A sweeping fantasy of immense battles, demonic magic and dark politics.

The Crown of the Conqueror

Crown / Empire of the Blood: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

Ullsaard has won the crown.

But when he is confronted with a truth too shocking to contemplate, he has to make the impossible choice between power and honour.

And now the real battle has begun in this stunning sequel to The Crown of the Blood, packed with gargantuan battles, demonic magic and treacherous politics.

The Crown of the Usurper

Crown / Empire of the Blood: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

The stunning conclusion to the epic Crown of the Blood trilogy.

Ullsaard rules the known world. All are subject to his will.

Yet even as another king bows before him, there are those who would wrench his empire from beneath him. He must risk losing the lands he has conquered to confront a foe far more powerful than any he has faced before.

As alliances shift and old enemies return, will he save the empire he has given his life to, or let it fall to ruin?

Path of the Eldar

Path of the Eldar

Gav Thorpe

Omnibus edition collecting together the Path of the Eldar trilogy

The eldar of the craftworlds devote their lives to the pursuit of perfection, following a series of paths which will their actions and decide their fates. Three friends--Korlandril, Thirianna and Aradryan--part company to walk their chosen paths--Warrior, Seer and Outcast--little realising how the actions of one will affect the others, and indeed their world. As Aradryan's choices bring the wrath of the Imperium down upon Alaitoc, it falls to Korlandril and Thirianna to defend their home--if they can avoid becoming stuck on their paths and being lost forever.

Path of the Warrior

Path of the Eldar: Book 1

Gav Thorpe

The ancient eldar are a mysterious race, each devoting their life to a chosen path which will guide their actions and decide their fate. When the artist Korlandril feels the call to war, he abandons peace for the Path of the Warrior. He becomes a Striking Scorpion, a deadly fighter skilled in the art of close-quarters combat. But battle is coming, as Craftworld Alaitoc comes to blows with the vengeful Imperium of Mankind, and the further Korlandril travels down the warrior's path, the closer he gets to losing his identity and becoming an avatar of war. Can he retain his sense of self and still be the weapon Alaitoc needs, or will he be consumed by one of the warrior-spirits of his race?

Path of the Seer

Path of the Eldar: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

The second book in the best selling Eldar series by Gav Thorpe

The ancient eldar are a mysterious race and each devotes their life to a chosen path that will guide their actions and decide their fate. Thirianna abandons her simple existence to embark upon the mysterious Path of the Seer. She will tread a dark and dangerous road that leads her to the otherrealm of the warp, where daemons are made flesh and nightmares are manifest. For only there can she realise her psychic abilities. After unleashing her powers in battle and communing with the spirits of her craft world, Thirianna turns her skills to discerning the future amidst the myriad strands of fate. Her visions reveal a great threat descending on Alaitoc, and both the living and the dead will march to war to defend it.

Path of the Outcast

Path of the Eldar: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

Aradryan has chosen to leave his sheltered life on Craftworld Alaitoc and walk the Path of the Outcast, seeking the myriad pleasures and threats the wider galaxy has to offer. Still unfulfilled as a ranger, he is lured into the life of a star pirate, bringing him into conflict with the Imperium of Man. A chain of events is set in motion that could have catastrophic consequences for Alaitoc, forcing Aradryan to take drastic action if his old home is to survive.

The Purging of Kadillus

Space Marine Battles: Book 6

Gav Thorpe

The Dark Angels battle the might of an ork Waaaagh!, led by the feared warboss Ghazghkull Thraka.

Faced with an ork invasion of Piscina IV, the 3rd Company of the Dark Angels believes the threat to be minimal. As enemy numbers continue to increase, their commander, Captain Belial, insists that his Company are strong enough to resist. But Scout-Sergeant Naaman knows just how dangerous this foe can be, and when a renewed greenskin offensive takes the Dark Angels by surprise, the orks swarm towards Kadillus Harbour. Little do the Dark Angels know of the technological power available to the xenos, and the true scale of the threat they face. Belial, Naaman and their fellow Astartes fight a desperate siege at Kadillus, knowing that they must hold out until Imperial reinforcements arrive or the planet will be lost.

Azrael

Space Marine Legends: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

Supreme Grand Master Azrael of the Dark Angels is forced into an uneasy alliance with the eldar to keep his Chapter's secret past safely buried.

The Dark Angels Chapter sprang from the First Legion of Space Marines to fight and die at the Emperor's side. But over ten thousand years, even the most staunchly loyal warriors of the Imperium can fall from grace, and the Dark Angels guard their own murky secrets most carefully - only Supreme Grand Master Azrael knows them all. A legend among Space Marines, he has fought for centuries and ever at the forefront of battle.

Now, with the enigmatically alien eldar as his uneasy and unlikely allies, he must tread the fine line once more between the pursuit of victory, and keeping the Chapter's past safely buried...

The Emperor Expects

The Beast Arises: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair

As ork ships lay waste to world after world, heading inexorably towards Terra, Imperial citizens despair. The High Lords become desperate to prove that victory is possible, no matter the cost. A massive Navy fleet is assembled--their mission to make a definitive strike against the orks at Port Sanctus, an area of enemy-held space. But when the Imperial armada arrives, they find themselves outclassed and outmanoeuvred--can human courage and faith possibly prevail against such terrible odds?

The Beast Must Die

The Beast Arises: Book 8

Gav Thorpe

The imperium has been brought to the edge of extinction by an ork invasion of unprecedented scale and depth. Piecemeal strikes againstthe invaders prove totally ineffective - for every ork fleet destroyed, five more appear. The only solution is to find and kill the orks' warlord - The Great Beast. Surely if its leader is killed, the greenskins' empire will fall apart in an agony of infightng and confusion. Koorland assembles a mighty army, but when they arrive on the orks' home world, the forces for the Imperium discover they have disastrously underestimated the might and integrity of their enemy.

Deliverance Lost: War within the shadows

The Horus Heresy: Book 18

Gav Thorpe

After his legion is decimated during the Istvaan landing and the initial battles of the Heresy Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard, returns to Terra. Here he attempts to find a way to restore his legion.

Angels of Caliban: Emperors and Slaves

The Horus Heresy: Book 38

Gav Thorpe

The Dark Angels Legion go to war, and their primarch's brutal actions threaten to tear apart the fragile alliance of Imperium Secundus.

With the Dark Angels spread across a hundred systems, primarch Lion El'Jonson stands as Lord Protector of Ultramar--though his true motives are known to few indeed, and old rivalries on the home world threaten to tear the Legion in half. But when word comes of the Night Lords' attack on Sotha, the Lion's brutal actions bring Imperium Secundus once again to the brink of civil war. Not even the most fearsome warriors of the Dreadwing, nor any arcane secret of the Order, can guarantee victory if he sets himself against his loyal brothers.

Corax: Nevermore

The Horus Heresy: Book 40

Gav Thorpe

As the Horus Heresy gathers pace, the Raven Guard primarch Corax and the remnants of his once mighty Legion now wage an entirely different kind of war--liberating worlds oppressed by the traitor forces.

After Isstvan, after Deliverance, the Raven Guard still endure. Their primarch Corvus Corax has rallied countless warriors to his banner, striking back at the forces of the Warmaster on every front--from the degenerate hereteks of the Mechanicum to the cruel legionaries of the Sons of Horus, none shall escape his wrath. But although Corax has managed to stall the physical corruption of his own Space Marines, what of their spirit? And what sinister end must await those who dwell forever in the darkness?

This collection contains all of Gav Thorpe's tales of the Raven Guard in the Horus Heresy--the novellas Soulforge and Ravenlord, along with the short stories 'The Shadowmasters', 'The Value of Fear' and 'Raptor'. Also included is the brand new novella Weregeld, bringing Corax's legend to its grim conclusion.

Lorgar: Bearer of the Word

The Horus Heresy Primarchs: Book 5

Gav Thorpe

The fifth title in The Horus Heresy: Primarchs series, delving into the story of Lorgar, primarch of the Word Bearers Legion and the first of the Emperor's sons to fall to Chaos.

Most devoted of all the primarchs, it was Lorgar who first fell to the lure of Chaos. Once known as Aurelian, this golden son of the Emperor of Mankind found himself an outcast because he worshipped his father as a god. Humbled before the ruins of Monarchia, chastened and brought low, Lorgar yearned for deeper meaning. He found it in the power of Ruin and thus began the descent into heresy. His fate had not always been so. On Colchis, his adopted birth world, Lorgar was not always the zealot, though his path would be nurtured by one: the priest Kor Phaeron.

The First Wall

The Horus Heresy: The Siege of Terra: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

Book 3 in the Global best selling Horus Heresy Siege of Terra series

The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus's vast armies at bay. In Perturabo, the Traitor siegebreaker, Dorn faces an adversary worthy of his skill. A terrible, grinding attrition ensues. The crucial battle for the Lion's Gate spaceport is at the heart of this conflict. With it in their possession, the Traitors can land their most devastating weapons on Terran soil. Dorn knows it must not fall. But with enemies attacking from within as well as without and the stirrings of the neverborn drawn to the slaughter, can the Imperial defenders possibly prevail?

Legacy of Caliban

The Legacy of Caliban

Gav Thorpe

Omnibus edition of the Legacy of Caliban trilogy, featuring the mysterious Dark Angels Space Marines.

Descendents of the First Legion, the Dark Angels are peerless warriors with a knightly heritage from their sundered home world of Caliban. Amongst their hallowed ranks are the lightning fast Ravenwing and the stalwart Deathwing. But the Legacy of Caliban is dark, and the need for atonement is great and echoes through the ages. Ever do the Dark Angels hunt the mysterious Fallen, their greatest shame and their darkest secret.

This omnibus edition contains the novels Ravenwing, Master of Sanctity and The Unforgiven, along with the short story collection Lords of Caliban.

Ravenwing

The Legacy of Caliban: Book 1

Gav Thorpe

Upon steeds of adamantium and steel, the Ravenwing of the Dark Angels bring death to the foes of the Imperium in the first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Gav Thorpe.

The Ravenwing stand apart from the rest of the Dark Angels Chapter--these dynamic Space Marines take to the battlefield upon steeds of adamantium and steel, and swoop from the skies in lightning-fast speeders to bring death to the foes of the Imperium. Led by the heroic Master Sammael, they prosecute war where their battle-brothers cannot, and are ever at the forefront of the Dark Angels' campaigns.

Master of Sanctity

The Legacy of Caliban: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

More secrets of the Dark Angels are revealed as the Legacy of Caliban trilogy continues.

The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels Space Marines continues. Interrogator-Chaplain Asmodai sees treachery and deceit everywhere he turns--while this serves him well in his hunt for the Fallen, it also strains the Chapter's relations with their Imperial allies. With their true quarry now seemingly within their grasp, Brothers Annael and Telemenus find themselves at the forefront of a new operation that could shake the Imperium itself to its very core.

The Unforgiven

The Legacy of Caliban: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

The gripping conclusion to the Legacy of Caliban series

The Legacy of Caliban echoes down through the ages, and the secretive mission of the Dark Angels continues: to atone for the sins of their forefathers and capture all of the renegades and heretics known as the Fallen. With the most famous of these Fallen Dark Angels--the elusive Cypher--now firmly in their grasp after his unexpected surrender, the Dark Angels are given fresh hope that they can redeem themselves in the eyes of the Emperor. But what game is Cypher playing? What plans does he have? And can the Dark Angels ever really atone, or will they always remain the Unforgiven?

Warbeast

The Realmgate Wars: Book 7

Gav Thorpe

Lord-Celestant Arkas Warbeast of the Celestial Vindicators returns to restore order to the lands that he ruled in his mortal life, lands now befouled by the verminous hordes of the skaven Clans Pestilens.

The once noble tribes of Ursungorod in Ghur have almost entirely fallen to Chaos, and an infestation of Clans Pestilens skaven has amassed in the caverns beneath the snowy tundra. There, Poxmaster Felk is on the brink of opening a vital realmgate--but Sigmar intends to seize this portal for himself. Arkas Warbeast, Lord-Celestant of the Celestial Vindicators, was once a mortal ruler of these lands. Now, with the aid of the Knights Excelsior, he has returned to free his kingdom from the clutches of Chaos and claim the realmgate in his God-King's name. But first he must vanquish the ghosts of his past and overcome his own conflicted nature, in order to unleash the beast within.

Grudge Bearer

Warhammer

Gav Thorpe

Dwarf King Throndin Stoneheart of Zhufbar is dead; betrayed upon the field of battle. as his son barundin takes up the mantle of King, he must fulfil a mighty oath of vengeance. In an epic tale that spans centuries, Grudge Bearer follows Barundin as he battles his way through enemies on a desperate quest to avenge the wrongs against his father and save his people from a terrible war against the dark forces of Chaos.

The Life of Sigmar

Warhammer

Gav Thorpe
Matt Ralphs

The legend of Sigmar, warrior-god and central hero in the Warhammer fantasy mythology, is told for the first time in this book. Accompanying the exciting story and wonderful design are fantastic drawings and stylish presentation, which add an authentic flavour and depth to this mythical subject.

The Claws of Chaos

Warhammer: Slaves to Darkness: Book 1

Gav Thorpe

In this first book in a new trilogy, Kurt Leitzig, a knight in the Count of Ostermark's bodyguard, hides his shameful past as the son of a family condemned and burned by witch-hunters. However, when another with hunt brews, Kurt discovers that when the powers of Chaos become involved he cannot trust those closest to him--perhaps not even himself.

The Blades of Chaos

Warhammer: Slaves to Darkness: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

Following the cataclysmic events in "The Claws of Chaos, Kurt Leitzig sits uneasily as the chosen warrior of the Gods. With the villagers of Fjaergard becoming angered by his life of luxury, Kurt is forced to prove his mettle. Promising riches beyond their wildest dreams, Kurt sails off with a war party to the fabled lands of Araby, where he discovers a seemingly deserted city of rising pyramids, forgotten tombs--and an newly awakened army that has been dead for thousands of years....

The Heart of Chaos

Warhammer: Slaves to Darkness: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

Once a noble warrior of the Empire, Kurt Leitzig has fallen prey to the evil clutches of Chaos, and his former lover, Ursula, must risk everything to raise an army to stop him from being transformed into a daemon that would destroy the Warhammer world, in the fantastical conclusion of the Slave to D

The Doom of Dragonback

Warhammer: Time of Legend

Gav Thorpe

The latest book in the popular Time of Legends series

War with the elves has ended in bloody stalemate, great quakes have broken the peaks, and the enemies of the dwarfs are rising in vast numbers. Far removed from this grief, however, are the dwarfs of Ekrund, great underground city of the Dragonback Mountains, convinced that no foe will ever breach their walls. Amongst them, the Angbok clan continues to mine their gold, until war threatens Dragonback and decisions must be made that could change their way of life forever. Whether by exile or extinction, a great doom is coming...

The Curse of Khaine

Warhammer: Time of Legend: The End Times: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

The End Times are coming. With Naggaroth besieged by the hordes of Chaos, the Witch King Malekith makes the decision to abandon the Land of Chill and make one final attempt to seize the throne of Ulthuan.

As the druchii march upon the soil of their ancestral home once again, long-laid plans come to fruition and treachery blooms, bringing Malekith closer than ever to his goal. All that stands in the Witch King's way is the Regent of Ulthuan, Prince Tyrion, and the darkness within Malekith's own soul, the call of the Curse of Khaine.

The Sundering

Warhammer: Time of Legend: The Sundering

Gav Thorpe

Omnibus containing Malekith, Shadow King, Caledor

Malekith

Warhammer: Time of Legend: The Sundering: Book 1

Gav Thorpe

The third book in the Time of Legends series begins the epic tale of the Sundering. Malekith triggers a tragic sequence of events that plunges the realm of the elves into a civil war from which they will never recover.

Shadow King

Warhammer: Time of Legend: The Sundering: Book 2

Gav Thorpe

When his family is betrayed and slain, Alith Anar, ill-fated prince of the Nagarythe, is forced to walk a dark path. With the island of Ulthuan in the grip of a civil war with their evil counterparts, the druchii, Alith Anar follows his destiny to become the Shadow King. Hunting his enemies from the darkness, he is now on a quest for vengeance that will never end.

Caledor

Warhammer: Time of Legend: The Sundering: Book 3

Gav Thorpe

Ulthuan is burning. Its peoples are scattered, its lands in ruin. Under the iron fist of the Witch King dark elves sack and pillage. His desire is nothing short of total domination and the utter extinction of the high elves. Skies blacken with the wings of dragons and smoke occludes the sun. Daemons crawl from their hell-pits, hungering for souls. Through the fires of civil war, a general becomes a king. Prince Caledor takes up the Phoenix Crown and with it the hopes of all of Ulthuan. Though it is a burden unwished for, he is the last heroic thread that can unite the realm of the true asur. Darkness closes, filled with the screams of war. Dead elves soak the land in blood, anointing a spell of unbinding, a cataclysm intended to end the very world.

Can't find the Gav Thorpe book you're looking for? Let us know the title and we'll add it to the database.