Yeovil, Genevieve, and Warhammer

[Tau Zero]

I've been trying to buy the Vampire Genevieve series by Jack Yeovil, which is currently out of print. These books all state that they are "Warhammer Novels."

I can find no explanation of what this actually means. I am marginally aware of the computer game by that name.

What are Warhammer Novels? How do they relate to Vampire Genevieve?

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

A Warhammer novel basically means that the book is set in the "Warhammer" fantasy world developed by Games Workshop (the only one I ever read was one about a Giantslayer called Gotrek).
I don't know how they relate to the character you're talking about (as I'd never heard of her) but it may just be that he was given licence to create that story/character within that universe.

The Black Library is the name for the division of Games Workshop that deal with it's novels so you can either try there for back issues/out of print or through the usual second hand bookstores etc.

Oh and interestingly (to me at least), Jack Yeovil is the pen-name of Kim Newman a fairly famous film journalist in the UK. I was not aware of that

 

[C. Craig R. McNeil]

Everything said above is correct

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Futher info on Warhammer, the GW books were trade size pb editions

Drachenfels was a GW
Genevieve Undead was a Boxtree pb edition (normal size)
BOXTREE was a uk publisher based in London.

Also the Dark Future books were good J.Yeovil(Kim N.) also pub.by GW.

Other Authors:-
Brian Craig = Brian Stableford
David Ferring = David S. Garnett

Beasts in Velvet J.Y. but not a Genevieve one. Pub. GW & Black Library
there is a Genevieve story in Silver Nails which is a collection by J.Y.
3 Anthologies Edited by David Pringle at least two contain Genevieve stories.
Ignorant Armies
Wolf Riders
Red Thirst
All Pub. by GW and Boxtree and most probably B/Library
hope that is some help to you, there are a couple of book dealers in and around London who stock used editions.

 

[Tau Zero]

So are these books stand-alone? Will i be missing some aspect of the story Warhammer players would understood but i'll miss?

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I don't play the games, but if you start with Drachenfels which is the 1st novel

while Genevieve is 3 short linked stories.
although there is a pre-equal short to Dracenhfels in Red Thirst collection.

some of the Dark Future books are linked to each other but I can't remember if Genevieve pops up in any of them.

 

[Silent Speaker]

I believe that there's a Genevieve omnibus out (Black Lib. eventually does this with some of their long series) that contains all? some? of the series.

Although you will probably get a general picture of the warhammer universe by just reading these books, you can try going to the games-workshop website (or just wikipedia) if you "get lost" in that world.

There's another Vampire series, if that's what you're looking for (set in the same "universe"-though probably at a different time in the chronology) that deals with the rise of the infamous vampire counts of Sylvania ("aristocracy of the night" and all that )--anyone who plays/reads warhammer stuff surely knows for what happens from there . Written by a different author, however. Looks promising though
First one's called "Inheritance".