Henry Zou

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Henry Zou is an Australian Black Library author, apparently of Chinese descent. Intuitively, we can assume this makes him one of the space communists, though the only one with a bad accent. Also note that he is certainly not Chris Wraight.

Zou had a short career at Black Library, having wrote a single short story and the Bastion Wars series, which was actually a trilogy. While his books had a fair amount of weak characterization and some stereotypical antagonists, he wrote decent books with some pretty brutally kick-ass combat scenes. We should know, Dan Abnett commented on those battles, and who the hell are you to contradict Dan Abnett?

His fans had ask what happened to him after that, and the answer: fuck if we know! He may have tried to shave his head in a desperate bid to improve his writing skills, and went into hiding when a mishap with a set of hairclippers made him look like C.S. Goto. The point is, when do we get some more delicious fycelene and bloodsplatter?

The Books

Emperor's Mercy is about an inquisitor running around the sector, followed by his two henchman and a sexy French inqisitrix, trying to keep a step ahead of Chaos worshiping space pirates trying to seek out an mythical superweapon that turns out not to be so mythical. Also, a midget general of the Imperial Guard tries to upstage an Inqiusitor Lord. Rather than handling the way any inquisitor in any other novel would have, the =I= guy tries to play it cool (we're saying the outcome you guessed at is drawn out rather than done immediately). The Blood Gorgons Chaos Space Marines also make a small appearance.

Flesh and Iron has an Imperial force trying to put down an Chaos insurgency on a backwater swamp world. The force is composed of a regiment of space cajuns, combined heavy armor/mechanized infantry regiment, a ye olde maritime naval force, and headed by an evil Ecclesiarchal cardinal with his personal force of Sisters of Battle. Through the book, the space cajuns roam through the jungles heroically getting shot to death by both sides of the conflict, the mechanized infantry and cavalry sat around doing fuck-all, the navy managed to get a few ships close just enough to the shore to get blown to shit under the cardinal's trollfaced orders. The evil cardinal spends time abusing his minions, and presumably looking in the mirror to twirl his mustache and work on his evil laugh when he's offscreen; while his SoB probably had orgies when he told them not doing so is heresy. In the end the evil cardinal turns out (SPOILERS) to be evil, and then the Blood Gorgons show up again and wreck shit. Not as planned.

Blood Gorgons is about the Blood Gorgons. Go figure.