Author Archives: Tim Sweeney

Honour Paid – A Rejected Black Library Submission

Feb 20

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(One of two short stories I submitted to the Black Library last year (the other is being repurposed).  I really like this story, and am very proud of it.  I hope to have the opportunity to write about the Executioners for BL one day)

 

Honour Paid

By Tim Sweeney

They drifted silently toward the end of the world.

Matte black, invisible against the void, the unpowered Thunderhawk Grind-Two-Eight rotated gently along its axis, almost imperceptibly, one downturned wing lifting to allow the passage of a piece of hurtling debris.

Staring at the external sensor display, Veteran-Sergeant Fenan Husq of the Executioners grunted as he saw the twin-headed eagle of the Imperium etched into the detritus flash past, a mere whisper from ripping a hole in the side of the gunship. Read the rest of this entry →

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part IV

Feb 10

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part IV

By Tim Sweeney

IV

-againandagainandagainandagainand-

He awoke in the void.  Eyes wide. Veins bulging. Lips drawn back over gritted teeth.

It all came flooding back.  The becalmed courier vessel.  The weeks spent living with brothers from different Legions.

Betrayal. Bloodshed. Death.

And it was all a lie. Read the rest of this entry →

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part III

Jan 30

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part III

By Tim Sweeney

III

Virhaddon threw himself backwards, crashing to deck while bringing the pistol up to fire between the knees of his armour.

He watched as the Night Lord seemed to flow to the side, impossibly fast even for a Space Marine, each of Usker’s perfectly aimed shots somehow missing by a hairsbreadth. The Iron Hand did not have another chance to fire as Cerck launched himself through the air to tackle the Loyalist to the deck. Read the rest of this entry →

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part II

Jan 26

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part II

By Tim Sweeney

II

‘By the grace of the Phoenician, enough Cerck!’

The Night Lord paid Holcius no mind, kicking an iron shelving unit laden with ammunition, causing it to tumble over as though it weighed nothing. The frame crashed to the deck, accompanied by crunch of flakboard crates and a tinkling cascade of brass shells. Read the rest of this entry →

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part I

Jan 24

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Heresy Ad Infinitum – Part I

By Tim Sweeney

‘Now,’

With but a single word did Heresy begin.

I

He crouched over the body of the Astropath like a starving predator over fresh-caught prey.  The corpse had come apart in his grip, the soul-bonded psyker as frail in death as she had been in life.

‘By all the fires of Nocturne, what did you do?’ Read the rest of this entry →

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Oh. My. Fucking. God.

Jan 8

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Words…they fail me:

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Game of the Year 2011

Dec 28

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My Top 10 Games of the Year for 2011 are now up as a list on Giant Bomb, and can be found by clicking below:

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/tim_the_corsair/game-of-the-year-2011/46-69903/

Tim

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Drabble: The Rictus Grin

Dec 11

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I began this a long time ago as a sort of sequel/spin-off to my story ‘A Smile Like the Emperor’.  For whatever reason, it never stuck with me, and I abandoned it after this short opening.  As I think you learn more from your failures than you do your successes, I thought I would share it here and see what people think.

The Rictus Grin (Unfinished)

by Tim Sweeney

 

“Potential Cael, what say you, then, to a warrior’s life of violence, faithfully serving the Emperor and the Imperium until you finally embrace death?”

The three faces, so human and so utterly pathetic, peered into the soul of the beautifully ruined child before them.

The treacherous little bastard smiled up at his saviours.

“I have seen enough,” Read the rest of this entry →

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Wedding Fever

Nov 25

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Hello to my reader (there’s gotta be at least one person who reads this regularly, right?).

Anyway, just a quick update to explain the lack of anything me-ish being posted on here of late: I’m getting married, and it turns out organising a wedding that is only 6 months from now is a tad time consuming.

Anyway, made some big progress with it and should have some more work and news up shortly.

Cheers!

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Fan F(r)iction Volume 2 now posted @ Giant Bomb

Oct 21

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The second blog post on my travails as a budding author has now been posted up at Giant Bomb and can be found by clicking on this here sentence!

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