Black Flame (publisher) explained
Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. Black Flame was devoted to publishing cult fiction in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. On 25 April 2008 Black Flame officially closed down.
The rights to Black Flame's 2000 AD titles have been bought by Rebellion Developments and were made available in eBook format in November 2009. However, the rest of the Black Flame titles remain out of print.
Publications
Black Flame published novels from licensed properties: New Line Cinema and Rebellion Developments, owners of 2000 AD comic. They also revived the Dark Future cyberpunk series, created by Games Workshop (with both new books and reprints).
The books are typically “further adventures” using the pre-established characters, but in the case of New Line there are also a select number of film novelizations.
New Line
- Jason X: The Official Novelization (Pat Cadigan, January 2005)
- The Experiment (Pat Cadigan, January 2005)
- Planet of the Beast (Nancy Kilpatrick, June 2005)
- Death Moon (Alex Johnson, November 2005)
- To The Third Power (Nancy Kilpatrick, April 2006)
- Final Destination
- Dead Reckoning (Natasha Rhodes, 2005)
- Destination Zero (David McIntee, 2005)
- End of the Line (Rebecca Levene, 2005)
- Dead Man's Hand (Steve Roman, 2005)
- Looks Could Kill (Nancy A. Collins, 2005)
- Death of the Senses (Andy McDermott, 2006)
- Wipeout (Alex Johnson, Unpublished)
- Final Destination I: The Movie (Natasha Rhodes, 2006)
- Final Destination II: The Movie (Nancy A. Collins, 2006)
- Final Destination III: The Movie (Christa Faust, 2006)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Pool Guy/Memphis (Jay Russell, June 2004)
- Upgrade/Sensuous Cindy (Pat Cadigan, June 2004)
- Sunset/Into the Light (Paul Woods, October 2004)
- Chosen/The Placebo Effect (K.C. Winters, March 2005)
- Burned/One Night At Mercy (Christa Faust, July 2005)
- Others Books:
2000 AD
- Dredd vs Death (Gordon Rennie, October 2003,)
- Bad Moon Rising (David Bishop, June 2004,)
- Black Atlantic (Simon Jowett and Peter J Evans, June 2004,)
- Eclipse (James Swallow, August 2004,)
- Kingdom of the Blind (David Bishop, November 2004,)
- The Final Cut (Matt Smith, January 2005,)
- Swine Fever (Andrew Cartmel, May 2005,)
- Whiteout (James Swallow, September 2005,)
- Psykogeddon (Dave Stone, January 2006,)
- ABC Warriors
- Bad Timing (Rebecca Levene, June 2004,)
- Prophet Margin (Simon Spurrier, December 2004,)
- Ruthless (Jonathan Clements, April 2005,)
- Day of the Dogs (Andrew Cartmel, July 2005,)
- A Fistful of Strontium (Jaspre Bark and Steve Lyons, October 2005,)
- Durham Red (all by Peter J. Evans):
- The Unquiet Grave (August 2004,)
- The Omega Solution (May 2005,)
- The Encoded Heart (October 2005,)
- Manticore Reborn (January 2006,)
- Black Dawn (July 2006,)
- Rogue Trooper
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- Nikolai Dante (all by David Bishop):
- From Russia with Lust: The Nikolai Dante Omnibus (672 pages, March 2007,) collects:
- The Strangelove Gambit (January 2005,)
- Imperial Black (August 2005,)
- Honour Be Damned (March 2006,)
- Fiends of the Eastern Front (all by David Bishop):
- Fiends of the Eastern Front (672 pages, February 2007,) collects:
- Operation Vampyr (December 2005)
- The Blood Red Army (April 2006,)
- Twilight of the Dead (August 2006,)
- Fiends of the Rising Sun (July 2007,)
- Anderson: Psi Division (all by Mitchel Scanlon):
- Fear the Darkness (February 2006)
- Red Shadows (May 2006)
- Sins of the Father (February 2007)
- Caballistics, Inc. (all by Mike Wild):
- Hell on Earth (August 2006,)
- Better the Devil (March 2007,)
- Sláine (all by Steven Savile):
- Slaine the Exile (December 2006,)
- Slaine the Defiler (September 2007,)
See also
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