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Ciaphas Cain: The Anthology

Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000

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Ciaphas Cain: The Anthology

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Phillipe Bosher
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A Ciaphas Cain Anthology

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy.

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Ciaphas Cain doesn’t mean to be a hero – he just can’t seem to help it. While trying to escape certain death, he somehow achieves unlikely victory after victory in the wildest and most dangerous warzones of the galaxy, to hilarious effect.

THE STORY

Ciaphas Cain is a true hero. Brave, stalwart, uncompromising, a cool head under fire...or is he? His legend has spread far and wide, but only Cain himself knows the truth behind his long and storied career.

Until now.

Inquisitor Amberley Vail once more delves into the Cain archive to present a selection of the man’s greatest and strangest exploits. From Cain and the Valhallan 597th hunting down the source of a warp-tainted infection that threatens to overwhelm the world of Lentonia with a starving horde of undead, to his early years with the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery fending off a tyranid invasion on a barren mining world, to the mysterious death of a fellow commissar that sees Cain’s life at risk (once again) as the killer’s attention turns to him...

CONTENTS

This anthology contains the novella Old Soldiers Never Die and the following short stories:

- Fight or Flight
- The Beguiling
- Echoes of the Tomb
- Sector Thirteen
- Traitor's Gambit
- A Mug of Recaff
- The Smallest Detail
- The Little Things
- Last Night at the Resplendent
- The Bigger They Are
- The Only Good Ork
- Three Questions
- Rotten to the Core

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Narrated by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory and Phillipe Bosher. Running time 6 hours, 28 minutes (approx).

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Ever wonder about all those references to Cains past life or the time in between books? Wonder no more! At last you can "read" them all for yourself and enjoy some of the moments that made Cain the Hero of the imperium he is

A must for Cain enthusiasts

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Lots of fun short stories rounding out the career of Caine and Jurgen. Really enjoyable.

Thoroughly good fun

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The use of jurgens point of view did add some extra perspective to the overarching story

a sequence of enjoyable short stories

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Love this, a real refreshing take on life in the Imperium. So reminiscent of Blackadder goes forth at times it's so well written and performed. A bit of light in the grim dark of the 41st millennium.

Blackadder goes to the 41st millennium.

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As good as you'd expect from this serie, both in writing and performance. A wonderful listen.

Consistently Great

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To be honest there's nothing to dislike, a great listen and c'mon, space blackadder and baldrick, enough said.

It is a great audio book in its entirety, very much worth owning, great story, narration and lore tid bits.

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A nice collection of short stories and novellas. A few staring just Jurgen, which are a treat. A particular favourite moment was one involving a Nurgle cult and Jurgen, who upon stumbling across Jurgen pay him no attention due them thinking he’s one of them because of his smell.

As usual Ste is on top form portraying Caiphas and Jurgen.

Another top notch entry.

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Great collection of short stories with excellent VA and performance as always from the Caiphus Cain series. Easy recommendation for any fan of the series.

Great collection of story nuggets.

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having consumed the Gaunt's Ghost books (also excellent) I started with the Ciaphas novels and now have a new favourite hero of the Imperium. May the Emperor be praised.

I thought you couldn't get better than Gaunt

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This is lighthearted for the grimdark 40k setting, due to the comedic tone of the protagonist narrator. The conceit is that you are reading a hitherto undiscovered personal account of the heroic Ciaphus Cane, in which he reveals his focus on self preservation at all costs, as historians debate how much of his narrative is true and how much is humility. If you like 40k and want something with some real personality, you will enjoy this.

Great collection, humorous, fun character

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