Callum Davis Audiobooks

Chem Dog: Warhammer 40,000 from the ranks of a penal legion

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

19 listener ratings

Who is Callum Davis?

Chem Dog belongs to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is a genre in itself before it is a setting: a far future of endless war, where the humans are frequently as frightening as whatever they are fighting. The novel picks one of the least glamorous corners of it, a penal legion, and follows a newly posted commissar sent out with a kill team into ork-held ground.

Our shelving lists it under science fiction and fantasy, and the science fiction half is the honest one. Callum Davis is an author we know through this book and this universe alone, and the writing suggests somebody comfortable with the grimmer register the setting demands rather than a tourist visiting it.

Callum Davis in audiobooks

Richard Reed reads the nine hours and twenty-eight minutes, a performance with the grit and the range that military science fiction of this kind lives on: distinct voices for a squad, and enough control to keep the action legible.

Ratings are still thin on the ground, so the score is an early signal rather than a settled one. No prior reading is required beyond a tolerance for the setting’s bleakness, which makes it a reasonable first Warhammer listen. The audiobooks gathered below will get you started.