Product Description

Deep within the twisted hell-storms of the warp lies the daemon world of Torvendis, a planet damned by the dark powers of Chaos. Savage battle has raged for so long that the very bedrock of the planet is formed from strata of crushed bodies. The arrival of a mysterious stranger threatens to upset the balance of power currently held by Lady Charybdia, princess of Slaanesh, precipitating a bloody revolution. But are the stranger's motives as straightforward as they appear or do the fickle powers of Chaos have one last trick to play?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153015 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'Great SF from a very dark future.' - Starlog '(Counter's) style is very strong.' - Enigma

About the Author
Ben Counter has made several contributions to the Black Library's Inferno! magazine, and has been published in 2000AD and the UK smal press. Daemon World is his second novel.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
After finishing Bens previous book, Soul Drinker, I was mildly annoyed he had not followed immediately with another tale of that Space Marine Chapter, and instead chosen to write Daemon World, of which I knew nothing about, fearing he might have changed tack and tried something different to the massive battle scenes and unending action that littered his debut.
Well, I had no need to worry, as if you drop Daemon World on the floor, any page it lands open on will be dripping with bloodshed and the screams of war. The action is excellently orchestrated again. The battles are large scale and grand at times, close and dirty in others. Ben vividly sets up his battlefield, then goes hell for leather pitting every undesirable agent of chaos from the Warhammer Universe against one another. The result is unrelenting and bloody enCounter once more.

If you are into Warhammer Books you _have_ to read Ben Counter. If you enjoy action heavy sci-fi then the same applies.

Keep them coming.

Intriguing.
Torvendis is a world of massive symbolic stature, existing at the very heart of the Maelstrom. It is a planet with a long and tortuous history. It is currently ruled by Lady Charybdia. Charybdia Keep is the seat of power. The huge keep had not been built by normal materials. Instead, it had been entirely built by what was once millions-upon-millions of living things. During her long reign, Lady Charybdia and her Violators (Chapter of Space Marines) have been ever vigilant and ever devoted to the pleasure god called Slaanesh. When Lady Charybdia notices a recently wrecked foreign spacecraft near the Canis Mountains, she immediately investigates.

Captain Amakyre of the Word Bearers arrives at Torvendis searching for one of his Chapter called Karnulon. Karnulon is a Chaos Marine from pre-Heresy, which was over ten thousand years prior. Karnulon is a renegade. No one knows why Karnulon came to Torvendis and Amakyre does not actually care. Amakyre's entire focus is on locating and capturing the renegade.

The daemon prince Ss'll Sh'Karr once ruled Torvendis. All believed it to be long dead. In truth it resides in a temple-prison. Karnulon intends to release Ss'll Sh'Karr. It would be the first in a cycle of events that would end in ultimate victory.

**** Author Ben Counter is a great writer with his own legion of fans. I can be considered one of that number. However, this time the author is more long-winded than normal. The plot develops very slowly and for much of the story there are parts that seem meaningless. (The key word there is "seem".) Yet when the battle scenes happen, they are fantastic. Some readers will have a problem with the writing style, but it is all very well written. In a word: intriguing. ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

good fun!
I'l keep this short and sweet. It was a good idea for a book, a chaos world that blended the medievil feel of warhammer in a 40k gallaxy. Lot's of epic and gory battles which is to be expected in a book about chaos. Read through it very quickly, as it painted a magical and wrong world in my mind. I liked Ben Counter Soul Drinker book but to be fare I liked this book far more