Hammer and Anvil
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 410
- ISBN-13
- 9781849700665
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hammer and Anvil reunites the same two leads five years later, in 2011, at 410 pages, on a different, necron-haunted world where a mission to reconsecrate a lost Ecclesiarchy outpost wakes something that should have stayed buried.
Key facts about Hammer and Anvil
James Swallow wrote Hammer and Anvil, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2011. The book has 410 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781849700665 to find the main one.
Hammer and Anvil is book 2 of 2 in the Sisters of Battle series. The series has 2 published books. However, the series starts with Faith and Fire (2006).
Additionally, James Swallow writes Blood Angels: Rafen, The Horus Heresy and Marc Dane as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night is the latest published James Swallow book on file, from 29 April 2025.
About James Swallow
James Swallow is a London-based British author and scriptwriter, born in 1969, whose career spans novels, comics, video games, radio and television. He is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestseller, a BAFTA nominee, and the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series. See every James Swallow book in order.
Its place in Sisters of Battle
Hammer and Anvil is book 2 in the Sisters of Battle series. It follows Faith and Fire. See the full Sisters of Battle reading order.
James Swallow's Sisters of Battle novels were, for years, the primary prose showcase for the Adepta Sororitas -- the Imperium's order of armoured, faith-driven warrior nuns -- centred on Sister Miriya of the Order of Our Martyred Lady and the Hospitaller Verity. Faith and Fire (2006) sends Miriya's squad to investigate a suspiciously quiet world and into a conspiracy involving a heretical scientist and forbidden xenos technology, forcing the Sisters to confront an enemy that undermines their faith as much as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849700665
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849700658