Death World

mass market paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Dec. 25, 2006 by Games Workshop.

ISBN:
9781844163984

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3 stars (1 review)

The Catachan jungle fighters of the Imperial Guard are an elite regiment that specializes in destroying the Emperor's foes on the most dangerous worlds of the Imperium. Their training is really put to the test when a squad is sent to the death world of Rogar III in response to an ork incursion. But as well as dealing with the green-skinned orks they must do battle with the planet itself and the mysterious figures that stalk them across the deadly terrain. Deathworld is an action-packed tale of survival in the grim, far-future!

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Death World review

3 stars

Collected into the Shield of the Emperor omnibus, Death World is about a Catachan Jungle Fighter and his squad sent on a mission to help fight Orks on a newly declared death world. This is the second book in the omnibus and is accompanied by the short story Better the Devil. We open the novel on Lorenzo, our protagonist complaining about struggling to sleep in space, and excitedly waiting to be deployed on Rogar III, a newly declared Death World. His squad gets sent on a mission to kill Big Green, the Ork’s warboss, and most of the book follows this squad with their Commissar. This squad is 12 men strong, and I feel we don’t have that much time to actually develop them all that much. They are kind of just stereotypical gruff soldiers in the style of those from Predator, and their stereotypical by the books commissar. Lorenzo …

Subjects

  • Science Fiction
  • War & Military
  • English Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - Adventure
  • Science Fiction - Military
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Science Fiction - General