Alex Stewart (writer)
Alexander Michael (born 14 November 1955 )[1] is a British writer. His best known work is fiction written under the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell—Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels, including the Ciaphas Cain series.
A full-time writer since the mid-1980s, the majority of his work (as Sandy Mitchell) has been tie-in fiction for Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 science fiction lines, as well as a novelisation of episodes from the high tech thriller series Bugs, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter under his real name.
He has also contributed some Warhammer roleplaying game material (including , the first tie-in book to the Dark Heresy roleplaying game[2]) as well as a number of short stories and magazine articles.
He lives in the North Essex village of Earls Colne, with his wife and daughter.[3]
As a member of the Midnight Rose Collective he edited the Temps and EuroTemps collections of short stories with Neil Gaiman.
Selected works[]
Warhammer 40,000[]
In the Warhammer Universe, as ISFDB catalogues it, Sandy Mitchell is the sole author of Ciaphas Cain and Dark Heresy series (both listed completely here).[4]
- Ciaphas Cain series
Novels, all published by Black Library
- For The Emperor (2003)
- Caves of Ice (2004)
- The Traitor's Hand (2005)
- Death or Glory (2006)
- Duty Calls (2007)
- Cain's Last Stand (2008)
- The Emperor's Finest (2010)
- The Last Ditch (2012)
- The Greater Good (2013)
- Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies (2018)
Omnibus editions: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Black, 2007), the first three novels plus short fiction; Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium (Black, 2010), the next three novels plus short fiction.[4]
Short fiction:
- "Fight or Flight", first published in the Black Library magazine Inferno! (Nov–Dec 2002); collected in Hero of the Imperium
- "The Beguiling", Inferno! (Mar–Apr 2003); in Hero of the Imperium
- "Echoes of the Tomb", Inferno! (Mar–Apr 2004); in Hero of the Imperium
- "Sector 13", Bringers of Death (Black, 2005), anthology; in Defender of the Imperium
- "Traitor's Gambit" (Black, 2009), limited edition chapbook for UK Games Day; in Defender of the Imperium[4]
- Dark Heresy series
- Scourge the Heretic (Black Library, 2008)
- Innocence Proves Nothing (2009)
Other[]
- Short fiction[citation needed]
- "A Mug of Recaff" - published in Hammer and Bolter 20[clarification needed]
- Old Soldiers Never Die (Novella) - to be released in November 2012.
- "The Smallest Detail" - published in Black Library Weekender (Anthology)
- "The Little Things" - published during the Black Library Weekender 2012
- Audio dramas
- Dead in the Water (July 2011)
- The Devil You Know (April 2014)
- Other
- " Good Man" - published in Sabbat Worlds (Anthology) (2010)
- "Hidden Depths" - published online in April 2014
- "Shooting the RIFT" - published by Baen in 2016
References[]
- ^ "Stewart, Alex, 1958–". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2014-07-27. Citing the British Library name authority file.
- ^ Mitchell, Sandy (2008-02-04). Scourge the Heretic. Black Library. p. 416. ISBN 1-84416-512-4.
- ^ "Sandy Mitchell at the Black Library". Archived from the original on 2007-04-06.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Warhammer 40,000 – Series Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
External links[]
- Alex Stewart at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Sandy Mitchell at Library of Congress Authorities, with 0 catalogue records
- LCCN nr92-16790 – Alex Stewart at LC Authorities
- 1958 births
- 21st-century British novelists
- Living people
- People from Earls Colne
- Warhammer 40,000 writers
- British male novelists
- 21st-century English male writers