Ice Guard (Novel)
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| Author | Steve Lyons | |
| Publisher | Black Library | |
| Series | Imperial Guard | |
| Preceded by | Desert Raiders | |
| Followed by | Gunheads | |
| Released | January 2009 | |
| Pages | 288 | |
| Editions | 2009 softcover: ISBN 9781844166725 | |
Ice Guard is an Imperial Guard novel by Steve Lyons and was first published in January 2009.
Story Description
After the withdrawal of Imperial troops is ordered from the ice world of Cressida, a squad of Valhallan Ice Warriors led by the indomitable Colonel Stanislav Steele are sent on a rescue mission to find a stranded Imperial dignitary and bring him off-planet to safety. But the occupying Chaos forces are everywhere, bent on the annihilation of the natives. If that wasn't bad enough, Stanislav and his troops face a race against time as Imperial Battleships in the upper atmosphere are preparing to virus bomb Cressida, destroying all life upon the planet.
Summary
In a race against time, a unit of the Valhallan Ice Warriors storms a Chaos-held city to rescue a captured Imperial dignitary, before Exterminatus consumes the entire world.
After the withdrawal of Imperial troops is ordered from the ice world of Cressida, a squad of Valhallan Ice Warriors led by the indomitable Colonel Stanislav Steele are are sent on a rescue mission to find a stranded Imperial dignitary and bring him off-planet to safety. But the occupying Chaos forces are everywhere, bent on the annihilation of the natives. If that wasn't bad enough, Stanislav and his troops face a race against time as Imperial Battleships in the upper atmosphere are preparing to virus bomb Cressida, destroying all life upon the planet.[1]
Trivia
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- Part of the story description on the Black Library website is mistyped ("...Stanislav Steele are are sent...")
See also
Sources
- 1: Black Library: Ice Guard (last accessed 13 December 2025)
| Imperial Guard Omnibus: Volume One / Shield of the Emperor | Fifteen Hours • Knee Deep • Better the Devil • Death World • Rebel Winter • The Citadel |
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| Hammer of the Emperor | Desert Raiders • Ice Guard • Mercy Run • Gunheads • A Blind Eye • Waiting Death |
| Honour Imperialis | Cadian Blood • Redemption Corps • Dead Men Walking • Regicide • Down Amongst the Dead Men • Hunters • The Mouth of Chaos |
| Glory Imperialis | Imperial Glory • Iron Guard • Commissar • The Siege of Fellguard • The Hour of Hell • Monolith |
| Other Novels and Short Stories | Baneblade • Straken • Stormlord • Shadowsword |
| Audio Dramas | Waiting Death |
