The Iron Star (Anthology Short Story)

The Iron Star is a short story published in the Gaunt's Ghosts series that was originally part of an anthology. The Iron Star was published as part of the Sabbat Worlds anthology in October 2010, and was later re-published as a stand-alone e-book.

Synopsis
Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads the Tanith First-and-Only – his Ghosts – in the defence of a bridge on an unnamed planet deep in the Sabbat Worlds. But something is wrong: long-dead Ghosts live again, and time isn't running as it should. Worst of all, the spoiled-meat sky with its iron star is affecting Gaunt. He is exhausted, and his eyes hurt...