Space Marine, by Ian Watson...

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The high shriek of escaping atmosphere had already diminished to a whistle as the injured anus cramped tighter, reflexively, around the girth of the plasteel troop-carrier which had penetrated it.

:shock:

In this part of the book, a jolly space marine squad molests a tyranid ship.
 
phreedh":4fnuc292 said:
The high shriek of escaping atmosphere had already diminished to a whistle as the injured anus cramped tighter, reflexively, around the girth of the plasteel troop-carrier which had penetrated it.

:shock:

In this part of the book, a jolly space marine squad molests a tyranid ship.

Keep going I'm nearly there! :lol:

I've not read Space Marine but I'll never get over the descriptions of the Slanneshi planet in the book Inquisitor I read as a kid, it was all nipples and boobs.
 
"Deploy the Vaseline, Techmarine! I want to be in and out of there as quickly and smoothly as possible!"
 
Ian Watson has always had a way with words, remember he was writing for infused heavy metal teenage boys (I was too), "Uh huh huh huh, he said anus" :grin:
 
Some get me a tissue... :shock:

I've never read any of the Ian Watson books, but I've always wanted to get them but just found other things to spend my limited funds on first heh
 
His 40k stuff is good, although different. Unlike most of the 40k stuff I've read, even from that era, it is much more "manic." Lots of jumping around from point-of-views and lots of long soliloquies as well. Space Marine was a pretty fun read and the Inquisition War trilogy was good, although get the collected version released a couple of years ago if you can as there are two additional short stories inserted in it, one of which I found to be very good.
 
I think Ian Watson's work is the finest that ever graced the GW IP. I first read Space Marine and Inquisitor when they were released and carried on reading them regularly throughout the years in which i wasn't doing wargaming due to being Far Too Grown Up. I love his style. It's so pretentious and yet wonderfully descriptive. His words did more than anyone else's in setting the scene for WH40K in my brain.
 
Love those books. Harlequin was pretty much my introduction to 40k as a universe rather than just a collection of brightly painted plastic men!
 
Ian Watson is still my favourite GW author...no one really captured the mix of sci if and insanity like he did.
 
I dont know how many of you played Advanced Space Crusade, but with the vulva doors and the anally inserted space marine reinforcements and other various orifice opening opportunities I have found/find it to be a schoolboy guffawfest.

I must track down the Watson Inquisitor books, I never read any of his stuff, I didnt know that it was regarded well, penetrated anus/ani or not.
 
This is the one old GW novel that has gotten very difficult/expensive to get a hold of here in the states. I see it listed for north of $20 where I can get pretty much any of the others for 2-3$ when they appear. I will add it to my collection one of these days...but not at that price!

Cheers,

Blue
 
It's actually still available from Black Library.

This is the 'about the book' blurb:

Believe us when we tell you that Space Marine is quite unlike any other Warhammer 40,000 novel you’ve ever read.

First published in 1993 – though completed some years earlier – at a time when the background to the Warhammer 40,000 universe was still in a state of flux and not yet fully coalesced, the book follows three young Imperial Fist recruits from their formative years in the underhive gangs of Necromunda through to fighting as part of the First Company within the bowels (literally!) of a Tyranid bioship.

Not only will you find squats in this novel –Tzeentch-worshiping squats at that – but also Space Marines controlling Titans, Space Marines with lasguns, the Pain Glove and more than a small amount of toilet humour. Oh, and a Zoat. How could we forget the Zoat?

Although the temptation was great to rewrite significant portions of this book to make it conform to current background, as a curiosity piece, an historical snapshot of the Warhammer 40,000 universe circa the early 1990s, this book is invaluable. It also serves as a shining example of what can happen when a respected genre author at the height of his powers is let loose on an established shared universe.
 
yeah, it's on print on demand. i keep meaning to buy it because i only have the original boxtree paperback and it has been read ragged. i don't want it to fall apart when it is so hard to find that edition.
 
I liked Space marine, I enjoyed inquisitor, but the second two are just odd. I really struggled with Chaos child. If I had to give the third book a review in one word it would be 'random'.
 
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