Catalog Page for Games Workshop’s “Dark Future” Novels
The ads from the eighties were amazing (see one of the ads here), and it was clear that Games Workshop had high hopes for their Dark Future car combat game. The game never really found a strong footing, but as this catalog page shows us, the company didn’t shy away from supporting the Dark Future world with a series of novels.
Black Library returned to the Dark Future world in 2005, reprinting older titles and expanding the line with new books. You can find some of the books at Amazon.com*, but I have to warn you: I’ve tried to read this series multiple times, and each time I find myself a bit lost and confused. Maybe I’ve just never given the fiction my full attention, or it may be that there’s something disruptively off about the works. As the Wikipedia entry reports:
“They [Black Library] updated the setting to 2021, and released several new titles. However, while several pop-culture references were updated in the books, some lines retain their original wording, and now seem out of place (such as when character Jazzbeaux thinks of the millennium coming around in five years’ time in ‘Route 666’).”
Well, regardless of the whys behind my inability to get into the novels, I’m totally gonna try and read one of these again and see if things finally click for me.
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