William King also known as "Bill King" is the writer of a number of successful science-fiction

Science fiction

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 and fantasy

Fantasy

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 books, most notably in Games Workshop

Games Workshop

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's Warhammer

Warhammer Fantasy (setting)

Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...

 and Warhammer 40,000

Warhammer 40,000

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 series, all published by GW's fiction arm, The Black Library

Black Library

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. His most memorable characters, Gotrek and Felix

Gotrek and Felix

Gotrek and Felix are a pair of characters in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, appearing in a series of novels written primarily by William King, secondarily by Nathan Long....

, have appeared in a series of novels, beginning with Trollslayer, a collection of previously published and new short stories. His next-most-famous character is Ragnar Blackmane, a Space Marine

Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000)

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 from the Warhammer 40,000 game setting universe (although the character was already in existence in the game and background material, King took him and expanded his history in the novel series).

Prior to moving to the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, King spent a number of years as a designer for Games Workshop

Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...

, contributing to their game universes (where much of his fiction is also set). He has also written a tetralogy of books featuring the Death's Angels which are currently available in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, Spain and Germany.
He married his long-time girlfriend Radka on September 24, 2005 and currently lives in Prague with his family.

Novels

Gotrek and Felix

Gotrek and Felix

Gotrek and Felix are a pair of characters in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, appearing in a series of novels written primarily by William King, secondarily by Nathan Long....

 Novels

• Trollslayer
• Skavenslayer
• Daemonslayer
• Dragonslayer
• Beastslayer
• Vampireslayer
• Giantslayer

Ragnar Blackmane Novels

• Space Wolf
• Ragnar’s Claw
• Grey Hunter
• Wolfblade

Terrarch Tetralogy

• Death's Angels
• Tower of Serpents
• The Queen's Assassin
• Armies of the Dead

Other Works

• Farseer
• Laughter of Dark Gods (short stories anthology)

Short stories

• "Green Troops"
• "Red Garden"
• "Visiting the Dead"
• "Skyrider"
• "The Price of Their Toys"
• "The Laughter of Dark Gods"
• "Geheimnisnacht"
• "Wolf Riders"
• "Dark Beneath the World"
• "Uptown Girl"
• "Deathwing" (with B. Ansell)
• "Devil’s Marauders"
• "Skaven
  Skaven
  Skaven are a race of man-sized anthropomorphic rat-creatures in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. They were officially introduced as a new Chaos race in 1986 by Jes Goodwin....
  
  's Claw"
• "Easy Steps to Posthumanity"
• "The Mutant Master"
• "In the Belly of the Beast"
• "Ulric
  Ulric (Warhammer)
  Ulric is a fictional deity in the Warhammer Fantasy setting, and is partially drawn from some real world analogies, particularly Odin and Thor...
  
  ’s Children"
• "Blood and Darkness"
• "The Mark of Slaanesh"
• "The Ultimate Ritual" (with N Jones)
• "The Wrath of Khârn"
• "Redhand's Daughter"
• "The Guardian of the Dawn"
• "The Servants of the Dark Master"

External links

• William King's official website
• William King's official blog
• The Black Library official website