Кстати, немного оффтоп, но таки прочтите, что написал Йэн Уотсон
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For me the secret of writing Warhammer 40,000 fiction, and making it believable, was to go completely over the top in style and also in content - to be lurid and brooding and hyperbolic and generally crazy, although in an elegant, ornate way where a dark of the disembodied floating head of John the Baptist.) beauty pervades the atmosphere as in a painting by Gustave Moreau. (Some years earlier I wrote a story about Moreau's painting Just to be educational, I put in passages in Latin. For some comic relief, as Shakespeare has a fool in the tragedy of King Lear, so I created Grimm the squat. (Subsequently, I understand that tyranids ate all the squats, which is a shame.) And I enjoyed myself enormously, and I grew fond of my brave, mad characters. I became deeply involved in their destinies, and to this day I still think of them - particularly since by the end one is very insane, another is dead, and one is hopelessly lost; which suggests that perhaps I ought to write a fourth volume some time to rescue them from lunacy, death and solitude. For a while, anyway. In the 41st Fortunately I was able to switch on my own psychosis in the morning at the same time as I switched on my computer, then switch millennium, where all is whelmed in darkness, any moderately happy ending seems unrealistic. it off again later in the day - or else I might have been possessed by Chaos! Something similar happened to me when I was writing my novel about the UFO experience, Miracle Visitors. Reports began to appear in the local newspaper of UFO sightings closer and closer to where I was writing. If I didn't finish the book soon, who knows what might happen to me?
I was so happy with the resulting 40,000 books that I used my own name on them. Other tech-scribes used pseudonyms. They preferred to distance their Games Workshop fiction from their ''real'' artistic endeavours, but I didn't feel this way - and as it turns A kindly reviewer once wrote that I resemble HG Wells ''in invention, and impatience''. I also quite resemble him physically too, out, my 40K novels appear to be the most popular things I've written in terms of sales and fan mail. consequently I have appeared as HG Wells at various events in England, Romania and Italy. But I do not mention a similarity to Wells out of egotism - perish the thought! I mention it because HG Wells is actually the chief inventor of modern-day wargaming. In 1913 Wells published a book entitled Little Wars, a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and to that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books; with an Appendix on Kriegspiel. In that book is a photograph of a layout which Wells built for what he called ''The Battle of Hook's Farm''and behold, there's a very similar photo of a layout for a fight between orks and Space Marines. Gosh. So my resemblance to . In an early Games Workshop manual, Rogue Trader, lo Wells in various respects holds true in the realm of Warhammer 40,000 too!
Wells's reason for pioneering wargaming to be played on a carpet or table or lawn was, in his words, ''to show that Great War, real war, is the most expensive game in the universe and is a game out of all proportion''. He goes on to say that to the blundering insanity of war he opposes the striving for Utopia, and that excitable self-proclaimed patriots and adventurers should be locked up in a room to play wargames to satisfy themselves.
Well, almost immediately the First World War happened. The trenches, the slaughter. To be followed by Hiroshima and Dresden, Fortunately, yes, it is. So far. But just as the daemonic visions of Hieronymus Bosch compare to horrors in the Netherlands a few Vietnam, the Congo, the Twin Towers… Is the universe of the year 40,000 actually madder than ours? hundred years ago, so perhaps Warhammer 40,000 compares to our own recent history. At the moment we are semi-enlightened and fairly civilised, on the whole. In a few hundred more years, who knows? If the climate changes radically, if resources run out and are not replenished, if jihads succeed, if x, y, and z, might there be a new Dark Age? Might our own daemons stalk a ravaged world?
To write stories set in the deranged future of 40K is to adopt, for a while, the medieval mind of Bosch - if Bosch could have written space opera.
Ian Watson, 18th March 42,004