Fire Warrior

by Simon Spurrier and Marc Gascoigne

Book Overview

When a powerful Ethereal, one of the secret rulers over the fledgling Tau empire, crash lands behind enemy Imperial lines, a young Fire Warrior is given the task of rescuing his leader from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844160106
• ISBN13: 9781844160105
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Games Workshop(uk)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great, and it was my first warhammer book ever.

When I first took a look at this book I wasn't sure and at many times I wanted to stop reading it but near the end I couldn't stop, for those who are in it for the action ounce you get to the part with the chaos space marines the treats never end. The ending really makes you think and it is funny how much kais changes. For people who like warhammer or just like sci fi action this is a book for you. P.S. Make Sure you understand Tau Language and dialect, oh and bear with my spelling/grammer mistakes.

Don't play the video game, read the book!

In the far future, there is only war, and for a young Tau fire Warrior, Kais, war along with other things, will consume his soul. Battling humans, space marines, chaos and himself, the young fire warrior must defeat every obstacle that is set in front of him. Can he do it?Being a fan of 40k and just about to start an Tau army, I was really excited about reading fire warrior. I don't play video games and could care less about video games, in fact I didn't know this was a video game until I look in the back of the book where they had the advertisment for it. But, fire warrior definitly, filled my expectation. The book starts off extremely well, and like many other black library books, it doesn't take long for the author to throw you into the action. These action sequences are done very well throughout the book, but it's not only action which kept me reading. The character, Kais, is a wonderful character, and the turmoil going on within him was done very well. I really enjoyed reading about him and his development throughout the book.Fire Warrior is a wonderful book, but it does have it's flaws. I felt the book could have been at least 50 pages shorter. Usaully, with black library books it's vice versa, but there was lots of pointless characters introduced, then a page later they would be killed off. The first couple of times the author did this it was pretty cool, but by millionth time you knew what was going to happen and the excitement of it was gone.If you enjoy the 40k world or really like the video game check this book out, I don't think you will be disapointed.

A great addition to the Warhammer 40,000 universe

I thought this book was great, simple as. Theres plenty of character building, even with some of the minor characters. AS you read the book, the perspective changes from young Kais, a Tau Fire Warrior, to the minor characters I mentioned, describing some of the awesome battles from various perspectives. If I had to name one fault with this book, it is that I felt a little let down with the ending, but that beside... an overall great read - a worthy addition to any Warhammer 40,000 collection, well, any book collection.

Substance below the relentless action

Fire Warrior by Simon Spurrier is a novelization of a first-person shooter computer game recently published by Games Workshop. I want to say up front that I refuse to give any book a 5-star rating. I don't believe that any book, no matter how well it's written and/or who wrote it, is perfect. But Fire Warrior is a VERY strong 4-star read. I consider myself relatively well read in Games Workshop (or Black Library) fiction, and while I've found several warhammer novels in the past to be good reads, I consider Fire Warrior to be a singularly unique offering in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K universe. The main character of the novel is a young Fire Warrior named Kais. Kais is a Tau - one of the newest races introduced in the 40K universe. The fact that the primary character of the novel is an alien (or a "xenogen" as the Imperium of man would say), gives the book such a fresh feel that it's a wonder why Black Library and GW waited so long to actually portrait a non-human race in such a fashion. Certainly, other 40k novels have introduced alien (or non-human, therefore "chaos-tainted") characters, but never in the manner that Fire Warrior portrays them... at least as far as my reading of BL fiction goes. Most mainline characters in 40K fiction are human, members of the Imperium (Imperial guardsman or super-human Space Marines), and as such their "perspective" (even if intelligent and considerate) is inherently fraught with "insiderism" weakness. A human being of the Imperium simply cannot, in my view, look upon the Imperium with as fresh a perspective as a Tau "outsider". And so what we have here in this novel is a brand new look at the Imperium, and through the eyes of our sleek Tau fire warrior, we see a gangly, uncontrollable, smelly, oozing race of cybernetic augmetics, once-human servo robots fluttering about on scripted I/O tasks, uber-human Space Marines whose supped-up bodies defy logic, and weird tech-priests who wield auguristic powers that would make any Greek mystic blush. In short, through the eyes of Kais, we see that the human race is threatening to become the very thing that it rails against: Xenogen. With every awkward, brutish lunge into space, humanity is losing its "humanity". Which begs the question of when will the Imperium be rocked by a serious Luddite movement. I tell you, it needs one, or we may wake up one day to find the distance between Order (the Imperium) and Chaos (the heretical followers of Horus) so small as to be indistinguishable. Spurrier all but suggests the very same thing through the inner-mumblings of Kais. During one scene in the novel, as Kais is running for his life, he sees both human and tau body parts strewn along the way, mingling in ghastly flesh heaps, and he wonders... "Here a tau arm lay, knuckles clenched, beside a de-limbed human corpse. There was a symbolism here, perhaps. A sense of unity, a sense of physical sameness. Given a talented enough por'hui journalist, this scene might mean someth

Friggin' awsome

I baught this book because I was waiting for the game to come out, I loved it It is one of the few "inspired by" books that contains an excellent plot and very good writing. I finished it in a day, so I gave it to a friend who also loved it.