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Warped Galaxies #4
Warhammer Adventures: Der Planet der Orks
The fourth book in the Warped Galaxies series. An exciting new series of sci-fi books for middle-grade reeaders from Black Library. Brave champions and the forces of the Imperium battle alien beasts and mechanical tyrants accross the gulf of space.
Still searching for the Emperor’s Seat, Zelia, Talen and Mekki arrive on the jungle planet of Weald. Accompanied by the ingenious Fleapit and the dashing Rogue Trader Amity, Zelia and her friends become embroiled in a war between two brutish tribes of green-skinned orks! Only by using their wits can they hope to survive this savage encounter…
Still searching for the Emperor’s Seat, Zelia, Talen and Mekki arrive on the jungle planet of Weald. Accompanied by the ingenious Fleapit and the dashing Rogue Trader Amity, Zelia and her friends become embroiled in a war between two brutish tribes of green-skinned orks! Only by using their wits can they hope to survive this savage encounter…
142 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 30, 2020
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Cavan Scott
844 books436 followersis a freelance comic writer and author. He is best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from both Doctor Who and Star Wars, as well as comics and novels for Vikings, Pacific Rim, Sherlock Holmes, and Penguins of Madagascar.
Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.
Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.
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November 10, 2025
Es spricht für unsere lokale Bibliothek, dass ich dort die Warhammer Adventures entdeckt habe. Diese Buchreihe richtet sich an Kinder. Warhammer und Kinder?! Ja, genau das habe ich auch gedacht und deshalb musste ich es ausprobieren.
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass ein Warhammer-begeistertes Elternteil das Kind damit in diese Welt einführen kann. Die Geschichte ist actiongeladen, rasant und voller Orks. Die Orks sind hier tatsächlich in etwa so wie in den typischen Warhammer-Geschichten.
Auch wenn das Lesen für mich einigermassen unterhaltsam war und für die Kiddies einige witzige Szenen eingebaut sind, so bleibt für mich doch ein fader Nachgeschmack. Warhammer für Kinder? Die Umsetzung hier passt für mich irgendwie nicht (und das liegt nicht nur daran, dass sich immer wieder leicht überholter Rollenbilder bedient wird).
Die ganze Thematik von Warhammer 40K wurde abgeschwächt, was einerseits sein muss, andererseits immer noch vorhanden ist, denn darauf basiert diese Welt einfach. Für Erwachsene und auch bei Jugendlichen denke ich, ist das Verständnis dafür, wie diese Zukunftsvision funktioniert und auch für die kritischen Untertöne vieler Romane vorhanden. Aber bei so jungen Menschen geht dies noch nicht in dem geforderten Ausmasse.
Deshalb bin ich skeptisch. Da ich aber weder ein Elternteil bin, noch pädagogische Erfahrung aufweisen kann, ist dies einfach mein ganz persönlicher Eindruck davon.
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass ein Warhammer-begeistertes Elternteil das Kind damit in diese Welt einführen kann. Die Geschichte ist actiongeladen, rasant und voller Orks. Die Orks sind hier tatsächlich in etwa so wie in den typischen Warhammer-Geschichten.
Auch wenn das Lesen für mich einigermassen unterhaltsam war und für die Kiddies einige witzige Szenen eingebaut sind, so bleibt für mich doch ein fader Nachgeschmack. Warhammer für Kinder? Die Umsetzung hier passt für mich irgendwie nicht (und das liegt nicht nur daran, dass sich immer wieder leicht überholter Rollenbilder bedient wird).
Die ganze Thematik von Warhammer 40K wurde abgeschwächt, was einerseits sein muss, andererseits immer noch vorhanden ist, denn darauf basiert diese Welt einfach. Für Erwachsene und auch bei Jugendlichen denke ich, ist das Verständnis dafür, wie diese Zukunftsvision funktioniert und auch für die kritischen Untertöne vieler Romane vorhanden. Aber bei so jungen Menschen geht dies noch nicht in dem geforderten Ausmasse.
Deshalb bin ich skeptisch. Da ich aber weder ein Elternteil bin, noch pädagogische Erfahrung aufweisen kann, ist dies einfach mein ganz persönlicher Eindruck davon.
October 17, 2020
This is a review of the audio book as read by David Tennant.
The story itself is the weakest of the stories so far. It is not bad however, and the Orks are used to their greatest comedic extend and some of the antics are hilarious.
This is nothing to take serious, however. The Orks are more like the comedy Orks we got in earlier 40k editions and not the grim dark we have today.
This said-
listening to the audio book certainly was the most fun of all the books.
David Tennant is absolutely BRILLIANT.
He is really going for it and him voicing all the Orks, doing all the shouting and the accents is simply hilarious.
This is totally worth it just for listening to Tennant playing two hordes of crazy Orks.
The story itself is the weakest of the stories so far. It is not bad however, and the Orks are used to their greatest comedic extend and some of the antics are hilarious.
This is nothing to take serious, however. The Orks are more like the comedy Orks we got in earlier 40k editions and not the grim dark we have today.
This said-
listening to the audio book certainly was the most fun of all the books.
David Tennant is absolutely BRILLIANT.
He is really going for it and him voicing all the Orks, doing all the shouting and the accents is simply hilarious.
This is totally worth it just for listening to Tennant playing two hordes of crazy Orks.
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September 13, 2020Orks, cockney accents, OTT fight scenes, hair squigs...what more could you ask for?
Oh yeah, betrayal. Although I'm not sure I trust either of the adults in this so book 5 is going to be interesting even before you add the servants of Nurgle into the mix
Oh yeah, betrayal. Although I'm not sure I trust either of the adults in this so book 5 is going to be interesting even before you add the servants of Nurgle into the mix
December 20, 2024
Warhammer Adventures: Stories from the Far Future
By Cavan Scott
What?! A Warhammer series for kids?!
If you’re familiar with Warhammer you may be just as surprised as I am because of the fictional series’ “grim dark” setting in their hundreds of novels. If you aren’t familiar, be prepared, Amazon and Henry Cavil have teamed up to bring Warhammer 40,000 to the big screen, and it’s not long before the franchise becomes mainstream.
Full disclosure- I am a big Warhammer nerd. I was ecstatic to read these, and I have to say, the quality is just as high as the other novels in their catalogue.
This series follows a group of kids as they are thrown into a race for their lives, trying to get a mysterious alien device into the right hands. I was happy to see that this is a 6 part series, rather than 6 individual stories. The archetype themes are all there: a loner that learns to appreciate those around him, a tech genius that becomes appreciated, and kid holding onto hope against all odds while searching for her mother.
As far as the Warhammer lore goes, I was surprised how much they were able to fit in. And they don’t hold back. It’s all there as a fantastic introduction to this universe. Which is where Christian families may start to take issue. It is the grim dark far future, in 40,000th millennium, and things are not good. There is a worshipped emperor referred to as the “God-Emperor”, there are labotamized slaves, mass planetary executions, bloodthirsty aliens, psychic powers, and war. Lots of war. And these books do not shy away from it, it’s all there, even if toned down a bit. In general there is some violence, some scares, and use of psychic powers.
Each book also includes illustrations, a glossary, and the audiobooks are narrated by David Tenet of Dr. Who fame.
Still interested? I’ll bring up the themes and ⚠️ Parental Warning ⚠️ content of each book individually below.
1. Attack of the Necron-
-A thug “cursed”
-A young protagonist “Swore” beneath his breath.
-Explains that the Mechanicus worship a spirit they believe lives in all machines: “Communicate with the machine spirits that dwell inside vehicles and cogitators”
-Someone is “a pain in the nether regions”—To speak against the emperor is “heresy”, shows faith in emperor and explains that the “emperor protects”,“Prayers” answered and guided by the emperor.
-Surprisingly lots of Warhammer lore
-some violence as planets are destroyed and lives lost in alien attacks.
-Meditating at an alter.
2. Claws of the Genestealer
-Galactic Compendium in back talks about psykers, while giving great info on Wahammer lore and world building.
3. Secrets of the Tau
-Addresses mankind’s hatred for xenos races. And hypocrisy of another race’s “greater good” philosophy.
-Adult character says “get the damn thing back myself”
-Heard “Drunken” singing in a marketplace
-Good teamwork theme.
4. War of the Orks
-explores unfolding story of the characters’ histories
-More good pointing out irony of war
-Ork says, “They don’t give a fig for” nature.
-Ork slang like, “Zogging amazing”
-a little Violent as the Orks try and sometimes succeed in killing each other.
5. Plague of the Nurglings
-Psyker has ability to track people by touching an object that someone has touched.
-Violent
-learn about the demons that live in the warp as they come into reality and attack.
6. Tomb of the Necron
-kids have to deal with a witchy old Psyker that can take youth of another and control spiders,
-Kids actually put into dangerous situations.
By Cavan Scott
What?! A Warhammer series for kids?!
If you’re familiar with Warhammer you may be just as surprised as I am because of the fictional series’ “grim dark” setting in their hundreds of novels. If you aren’t familiar, be prepared, Amazon and Henry Cavil have teamed up to bring Warhammer 40,000 to the big screen, and it’s not long before the franchise becomes mainstream.
Full disclosure- I am a big Warhammer nerd. I was ecstatic to read these, and I have to say, the quality is just as high as the other novels in their catalogue.
This series follows a group of kids as they are thrown into a race for their lives, trying to get a mysterious alien device into the right hands. I was happy to see that this is a 6 part series, rather than 6 individual stories. The archetype themes are all there: a loner that learns to appreciate those around him, a tech genius that becomes appreciated, and kid holding onto hope against all odds while searching for her mother.
As far as the Warhammer lore goes, I was surprised how much they were able to fit in. And they don’t hold back. It’s all there as a fantastic introduction to this universe. Which is where Christian families may start to take issue. It is the grim dark far future, in 40,000th millennium, and things are not good. There is a worshipped emperor referred to as the “God-Emperor”, there are labotamized slaves, mass planetary executions, bloodthirsty aliens, psychic powers, and war. Lots of war. And these books do not shy away from it, it’s all there, even if toned down a bit. In general there is some violence, some scares, and use of psychic powers.
Each book also includes illustrations, a glossary, and the audiobooks are narrated by David Tenet of Dr. Who fame.
Still interested? I’ll bring up the themes and ⚠️ Parental Warning ⚠️ content of each book individually below.
1. Attack of the Necron-
-A thug “cursed”
-A young protagonist “Swore” beneath his breath.
-Explains that the Mechanicus worship a spirit they believe lives in all machines: “Communicate with the machine spirits that dwell inside vehicles and cogitators”
-Someone is “a pain in the nether regions”—To speak against the emperor is “heresy”, shows faith in emperor and explains that the “emperor protects”,“Prayers” answered and guided by the emperor.
-Surprisingly lots of Warhammer lore
-some violence as planets are destroyed and lives lost in alien attacks.
-Meditating at an alter.
2. Claws of the Genestealer
-Galactic Compendium in back talks about psykers, while giving great info on Wahammer lore and world building.
3. Secrets of the Tau
-Addresses mankind’s hatred for xenos races. And hypocrisy of another race’s “greater good” philosophy.
-Adult character says “get the damn thing back myself”
-Heard “Drunken” singing in a marketplace
-Good teamwork theme.
4. War of the Orks
-explores unfolding story of the characters’ histories
-More good pointing out irony of war
-Ork says, “They don’t give a fig for” nature.
-Ork slang like, “Zogging amazing”
-a little Violent as the Orks try and sometimes succeed in killing each other.
5. Plague of the Nurglings
-Psyker has ability to track people by touching an object that someone has touched.
-Violent
-learn about the demons that live in the warp as they come into reality and attack.
6. Tomb of the Necron
-kids have to deal with a witchy old Psyker that can take youth of another and control spiders,
-Kids actually put into dangerous situations.
November 4, 2020
Zelia, Talen and Mekki have survived the Tau attack on the spacestation and have a possible location for Zelia's mother, the Emperor's Seat. With the help of the ingenious xenos Fleapit and the Rogue Trader Amity they have a line on a possible location for the rendezvous the planet Weald a jungle planet home to a mountain sized monument to the God-Emperor.
Unfortunately it's also home to two waring tribes of the brutish xenos called Orks.
A fun addition to the series but perhaps also the most juvenile of them so far. The Orks are very much played for laughs and so never feel like a real threat to the kids in the way the Necron or the Genestealers did. But it's still a solid book and builds well on what has gone before and leaves room for more to follow. Which has to be the Eldar or Chaos I would think. I really can't see them featuring the Dark Eldar as the main villains.
Unfortunately it's also home to two waring tribes of the brutish xenos called Orks.
A fun addition to the series but perhaps also the most juvenile of them so far. The Orks are very much played for laughs and so never feel like a real threat to the kids in the way the Necron or the Genestealers did. But it's still a solid book and builds well on what has gone before and leaves room for more to follow. Which has to be the Eldar or Chaos I would think. I really can't see them featuring the Dark Eldar as the main villains.
September 21, 2022
Entertaining enough on a first read, but in the structure of the series as a whole it's essentially a filler episode. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...
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October 18, 2020This one was really cool and fun to read.
March 21, 2021
This one didn't hit me as well as the other books in the series. The Orks felt more comedic than actually scary and that felt as if it was not in the correct universe. Whilst there was a lot going on the Wwaaar did not feel like it was true and the battles didn't feel right. Whilst I enjoyed the differences I wish a little more would have been explained about their magic system though it worked well with the ideology of children. Am looking forward to the next book and can only hope that it really grows and shows slightly more of the darker side.
June 16, 2020
Another fast paced action packed read. Very entertaining.
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