Games Workshop
Entry updated 21 July 2025. Tagged: Publisher, Game.
UK company specializing in fantasy-adventure Role Playing Games, Wargames and models, and publishing the related Magazine White Dwarf (June/July 1977-current) (which see).
Games Workshop's subsidiary, GW Books, under the editorship of David Pringle (with Neil Jones 1990-1991), between 1989 and 1991 produced a range of novels and story collections in three series relating to three of the company's games: Warhammer (Heroic Fantasy), Warhammer 40,000 (heroic fantasy/Space Opera) and Dark Future (Alternate-History/Cyberpunk/car action). Writers who contributed novels included Brian Craig (Brian M Stableford), David Ferring (David S Garnett), Ian Watson and Jack Yeovil (Kim Newman), while the anthologies, edited by Pringle (one with Neil Jones), featured work by these authors and, among others, S M Baxter (Stephen Baxter), Myles Burnham (Eugene Byrne), Ralph T Castle (Charles Platt), Storm Constantine, Charles Davidson (Charles Stross), Sean Flynn (Paul J McAuley), Nicola Griffith, Neil Jones and William King.
Ranging from the conventional to the very offbeat, GW Books' output was superior to the highly successful stream of games-related fictions from the TSR stable (see Game-Worlds), perhaps because Pringle, editor of Interzone, drew on the contributors to that magazine. Further ties continued to appear after Pringle and GW had parted company. Games Workshop also published very many games manuals and two art books: Blood & Iron (1989) by Les Edwards and Ratspike (1990) by John Blanche and Ian Miller. [KN/DRL]
further reading
- Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop (London: Unbound, 2022) [nonfiction: hb/]
links
- Stephen Baxter. "Freedom in an Owned World: Warhammer Fiction and the Interzone Generation" (May/June 2003 Vector) [mag/]
- Picture Gallery
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