Coming soon: Dawn of War Omnibus
Collecting together the epic saga of the Blood Ravens into one giant tome, with some all new material. Expected: March 2008 (UK), April 2008 (elsewhere)
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Welcome to the official website of Cassern S Goto ...
News: the Worldcon interviews from 2006 (On Accuracy in 40K) and 2007 (On Writing 'Tie-In' and 40K) with Cassern are now live in the 'Positions' section.
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Who is CS Goto?
Cassern Sebastian Goto was born in Ireland in 1970, 2nd February. His origins are African Irish. Since being born, he has lived in various countries around the world, including the UK, France, China and the USA. Today he lives on the Pacific coast of California, where he writes novels and teaches Capoeira to pay the rent. Before moving to California, Cassern was a student in Scotland, where it rained a great deal.The weather in California is much better than in the Highlands. He started writing for the Black Library in 2005 and, since then, he has published seven full-length novels set in the war-torn future of WH40K as well as a clutch of short stories. His writing is popular with many BL fans, but he also has a following outside the WH40K community, and his writing is often seen as a point of 'crossover' into (or from) more mainstream science fiction. However, this has made his writing controversial amongst parts of the gaming community who challenge his 'accuracy' within the established rules of WH40K and within aspects of the conventional background material. Cassern addresses some of these issues in Positions, and readers are welcome to join the discussion in Have your say. He plays the guitar badly, but with rhythm. ELDAR PROPHECY -- OUT NOW! When the youthful eldar warrior Naois finally comes of age, he is unaware of the his role in the grand narrative of Kaelor ... unaware of the dark destiny that lies on his shoulders. Having trained in the ancient Aspect Warrior Temple of the Warp Spiders, he seeks to rebuild the lost power of his once-great family. In apparent fulfilment of a secret prophecy, the young warrior and his infant sister wreak destruction across the craftworld, exacting vengeance on those who brought low their ancestors in the fabled House Wars. Naois and the infant Ela Ashbel bring their enemies to their knees. But can the prophecy that drives Naois be trusted, or are there darker forces at work? Eldar Prophecy is a story of revenge and fate that explores the mysterious world of the alien eldar -- a once mighty race that is in the twilight of its existence. It is the first Black Library book devoted entirely to this popular and enigmatic alien civilization. Who are the Eldar?Ancient and mysterious beyond the comprehension of men, the eldar are enigmatic aliens who stalked the stars when mankind's ancestors were first crawling from the primordial seas of Terra. Their magnificent empire spanned the galaxy: their whims decided the fate of worlds and their wrath quenched the fiercest suns. But many millennia ago, these Sons of Asuryan fell prey to sinful pride, decadence and depravity – this was the Fall of the Eldar. From the miraculous potency of their degenerate dreams, a sickening and obscene god was born – the Great Enemy. The psychic implosion of its birth-cries tore out the heart of the eldar empire, leaving a pulsing, bleeding afterbirth of pure Chaos in its place – the Eye of Terror. And now, in the time of the Imperium of Man, the eldar are all but extinct – the last fragments of a shattered civilization plunged into constant warfare as they flee the ever-lustful reaches of the Great Enemy, struggling to suppress the deathly light of their fiery emotions lest the Enemy find them again. Those who managed to escape before the cataclysmic Fall did so on mighty living vessels called Craftworlds; it is on these world-ships that the last remnants of the eldar civilization drift amongst the stars as a scattered and nomadic race. Only a few of the wisest eldar Farseers know how many of the great craftworlds escaped from the Fall. One such craftworld, which fled out into the darkest reaches of the galaxy, hiding in glorious isolation from the Great Enemy in the blindness of nowhere, was Kaelor – The Radiant Eye. It drifted far from the touch of civilization, turning in on itself and incubating its own psychoses until the gravity of its intense psychic resonance gradually drew the attention of precisely those eyes from whom it sought to remain hidden. ‘Eldar Prophecy’ is the story of Kaelor. (from the preamble to 'Eldar Prophecy')
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