Q140450192

This author record is listed in our database under the identifier Q140450192 — a Wikidata reference number left unresolved during data import. Research identifies the person as Christian Dunn, also credited as Christian Z. Dunn or C. Z. Dunn, a British editor and writer closely tied to Games Workshop's Black Library imprint and its Horus Heresy line.

Dunn cut his teeth editing the Inferno! and Warhammer Monthly anthology magazines before spending years as Commissioning Editor at Black Flame and Solaris, two other genre-fiction imprints. He later returned to Black Library as Range Development Editor, where he ran the e-book, print-on-demand, and audio drama ranges and was credited with discovering and developing new writing talent for the Warhammer universe — meaning his influence on the Horus Heresy's expansion runs through the writers he commissioned as much as through his own fiction. As C. Z. Dunn, he also wrote short stories and audio dramas within the Horus Heresy setting, including contributions collected in Age of Darkness and other Black Library anthologies. He is based in Nottingham, England.

Because his output is concentrated in shorter Horus Heresy fiction and audio dramas rather than mainline novels, a reader encountering his name is most likely to meet it via one of the series' anthology volumes rather than a standalone book.