Alex Stewart (writer)
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Alexander Michael Stewart (born 25 July 1958) is a British writer. His best known work is fiction written under the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell—Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels, including the Ciaphas Cain series.
A full-time writer since the mid-1980s, the majority of his work (as Sandy Mitchell) has been tie-in fiction for Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 science fiction lines, as well as a novelisation of episodes from the high tech thriller series Bugs, for which he also worked as a scriptwriter under his real name.
He has also contributed some Warhammer roleplaying game material (including Scourge the Heretic, the first tie-in book to the Dark Heresy roleplaying game{{cite book|last=Mitchell|first=Sandy|title=Scourge the Heretic|publisher=Black Library|date=2008-02-04|pages=416|isbn=1-84416-512-4}}) as well as a number of short stories and magazine articles.
He lives in the North Essex village of Earls Colne, with his wife and daughter.{{cite web|url=http://www.blacklibrary.com/author.asp?id=67 |title=Sandy Mitchell at the Black Library |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406224212/http://blacklibrary.com/author.asp?id=67 |archivedate=2007-04-06 }}
As a member of the Midnight Rose Collective he edited the Temps and EuroTemps collections of short stories with Neil Gaiman.
Selected works
=Warhammer 40,000=
In the Warhammer Universe, as ISFDB catalogues it, Sandy Mitchell is the sole author of Ciaphas Cain and Dark Heresy series (both listed completely here).[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?7837 "Warhammer 40,000 – Series Bibliography"]. ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
;Ciaphas Cain series
Novels, all published by Black Library
- For The Emperor (2003)
- Caves of Ice (2004)
- The Traitor's Hand (2005)
- Death or Glory (2006)
- Duty Calls (2007)
- Cain's Last Stand (2008)
- The Emperor's Finest (2010)
- The Last Ditch (2012)
- The Greater Good (2013)
- Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies (2018)
- Ciaphas Cain: Vainglorious (2023)
Omnibus editions: Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Black, 2007), the first three novels plus short fiction; Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium (Black, 2010), the next three novels plus short fiction. Ciaphas Cain: Saviour of the Imperium (Black, 2018) followed, collecting a further three novels. An anthology reprinting Ciaphas Cain short stories is due to be released in early 2025.
Short fiction:
- "Fight or Flight", first published in the Black Library magazine Inferno! (Nov–Dec 2002); collected in Hero of the Imperium
- "The Beguiling", Inferno! (Mar–Apr 2003); in Hero of the Imperium
- "Echoes of the Tomb", Inferno! (Mar–Apr 2004); in Hero of the Imperium
- "Sector 13", Bringers of Death (Black, 2005), anthology; in Defender of the Imperium
- "Traitor's Gambit" (Black, 2009), limited edition chapbook for UK Games Day; in Defender of the Imperium
;Dark Heresy series
- Scourge the Heretic (Black Library, 2008)
- Innocence Proves Nothing (2009)
=Other=
;Short fiction{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
- "A Mug of Recaff" - published in Hammer and Bolter 20 {{clarify|date=July 2014|reason=more Ciaphas Cain? or other?}}
- Old Soldiers Never Die (Novella) - to be released in November 2012.
- "The Smallest Detail" - published in Black Library Weekender (Anthology)
- "The Little Things" - published during the Black Library Weekender 2012
;Audio dramas
- Dead in the Water (July 2011)
- The Devil You Know (April 2014)
;Other
- " Good Man" - published in Sabbat Worlds (Anthology) (2010)
- "Hidden Depths" - published online in April 2014
- "Shooting the RIFT" - published by Baen in 2016
References
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[http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92016790.html "Stewart, Alex, 1958–"]. Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2014-07-27. Citing the British Library name authority file.
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External links
- {{isfdb name|10630}}
- {{LCAuth|no2010200413|Sandy Mitchell|0|ue}}
- {{LCCN|nr92016790}} – Alex Stewart at LC Authorities
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Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:People from Earls Colne
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Warhammer 40,000 writers