Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | John Lambshead

John Lambshead was born in 1952 in Newquay, Cornwall. Newquay is the surf capital of Europe and a popular seaside holiday resort. He was educated at Newquay Grammar School and read Applied Biology at Brunel University of Technology in West London. He did a short stint as a management trainee at Marks & Spencer selling women's lingerie before joining The Natural History Museum to study for a PhD in marine ecology. He is a research scientist in marine biodiversity and he has a visiting chair at Southampton University. He is married to a lady from Newquay, who is an arts graduate from London University, and they have two grown up daughters.

He started writing commercially in 1984, designing a series of computer games including David Gemmel's Legend, Frederick Forsyth's Fourth Protocol and Return To Oz. John was editor of Games & Puzzles. He has written a number of wargaming books including Fall of the West and The Hammers Slammers Handbook.

John writes the Lucy series of stories for Baen including Lucy's Blade and As Black As Hell.

The Temple of Thorns Full Story From: She sat cross legged on a wool sack in the small cult room and prayed.

As Black As Hell Full Story From: Gaston was used to waiting. The unofficial motto of the British Army was 'hurry up and wait.' Gaston had reached the rank of sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment—the Queen's own Royal goon squad, not bad for the illegitimate son of a Charing Cross streetwalker.