More cover goodness

He’s not happy. He’s really not happy.

On the other hand, I really am. I don’t think anyone’s captured the Iron Hands better in artwork. You wouldn’t mess, would you?

BL have put the blurb for the book up on the website, so there’s no harm repeating it here:

After decades spent in the service of the Chaos god Slaanesh, the ruling classes of the Contqual sub-sector have finally brought true damnation upon their people – innumerable hordes of foul and lascivious daemons swarm from a tear in the fabric of reality to embrace their mortal pawns and drive them on to ever more depraved acts of worship. It falls to the merciless Space Marines of the Iron Hands Chapter to cleanse these worlds of the warp’s unholy taint, and it is upon the surface of Shardenus that the fate of a billion lost souls will be decided.

Out July 2011

So that’s the deal: bionic super-soldiers duking it out with crazed daemonic hordes on the hell-world of Shardenus. It won’t be pretty, but it will (hopefully) be a lot of fun. For those interested, I’m still not quite at the finish line with this one, but am trying to get it done before the Christmas break. It’s a hard slog, as always, as things near completion, but images like the above certainly help restore energy levels.

As many of you will know, the Space Marine Battles cover series are created by Jon Sullivan, whose website is here. Take a look for more luscious images of the far future, including the fantastic images he created for Battle of the Fang – who could forget the sight of Bjorn in action?