an interview in November 2008 if he can imagine Orcs: First Blood on film, Nicholls answered: Fit For Purpose and Orcs: Bad Blood In the same interview, Stan Nicholls said: The sequel of Orcs: First Blood is Orcs: Bad Blood, which includes Bad Blood: Weapons of Magical Destruction, Bad Blood: Army of Shadows and Bad Blood: Inferno. The books have been published (in the UK) by Gollancz. The first volume, Weapons of Magical Destruction, was published in the UK in December 2008; volume two, Army of Shadows, appeared in October 2009. Inferno, the final volume, was published in the UK on 29 December 2011 (the German edition, from Heyne, is already out, and the US edition, from Orbit, appears in April). (By 2010 the first trilogy, and books 1 and 2 of the second trilogy, had achieved over 80,000 UK library borrowings.) At the novel's start, orc leader Stryke and his retired warband, the Wolverines, are living an idyllic, if slightly boring, life in Ceragan, the orcs' true dimension. While Stryke and his buddy Haskeer are out hunting, they encounter a startling magical lightshow that heralds the appearance of someone arriving in their dimension. The human envoy dies only moments after arriving (due to a bad case of Knife in the Back), but he carries an enchanted stone that relays a message to the startled orcs: in yet another dimension, orcs are being brutalized and tortured by an invading human force, and they need a heroic band to step in and save them. References Notes Bibliography Stan Nicholls (January 2011) (17,75 × 10,5 cm). Orcii: Legiunea tunetului (Legion of Thunder). Nemira. . Stan Nicholls (May 2010) (17,75 × 10,5 cm). Orcii: Războinicii furtunii (Warriors of the Tempest). Nemira. . External links Author's web site Orcs: Forged for War - the book "is the first graphic novel in Stan Nicholls' beloved Orcs universe." It "is an original story—a new entry in this series, not an adaptation of old material." British fantasy novels Fantasy novel series Orcs in popular culture