reds8n wrote:.. err.. "Angel Exterminatus"

1hadhq wrote:

reds8n wrote:.. err.. "Angel Exterminatus"

This one?

Spoiler:

The Primarchs

page 110:

'it will be better than wondrous,' said Fulgrim, leaning down to kiss Lucius on each scarred cheek. 'For in the heart of its millions reflections I will meet the gaze of the Angel Exterminatus and the Galaxy will weep to behold its terrible beauty'.



page198:

A beeing of chaos assails Ferrus, and there he :

...
perceived two words:
Angel...
Exterminatus....

'and the heavens burnt with its refulgent beauty'...

So EmporersChildren ....and the Iron Warriors are thrown in too?
Is it about the mirrors ?

Alpharius wrote:In your misguided and incorrect opinion, sure!

This 'mystery' is anything but, and the fact that it is continuously 'talked around' is goofy and 1,000,000 times more "Derp" than not revealing the secret(s) about them.

Hulksmash wrote:Gonna be awesome!!!! I'm glad ABD is handling it.

Now if we could get an Iron Warrior book..[u].....That short story just wet my appetite.

BrookM wrote:From AD-B's blog:

The opening to Betrayer.

Just Dave wrote:I loved that.
I really like how he's addressed one of queries of the community - that the Wolves, not the World Eaters, were the executioners - all the while making the Wolves and World Eaters seem coooool.

Gorlak wrote:

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/betrayer-prologue/

A shadow fell across Skane, blocking out the weak sun as a Legio Audax Warhound passed

automatonsleuth wrote:Awwww, I just discovered that Pariah will be released in hardback first At least Salvation's Reach is coming out in paperback at the same time,or I would go well and truly mental. Or, y'know, end up buying the hardback at full price, which I normally avoid at all costs.

BrookM wrote:

automatonsleuth wrote:Awwww, I just discovered that Pariah will be released in hardback first At least Salvation's Reach is coming out in paperback at the same time,or I would go well and truly mental. Or, y'know, end up buying the hardback at full price, which I normally avoid at all costs.

This doesn't come as a surprise seeing as they did the same with the Ravenor trilogy and that this is Abnett, most of his new stuff is in hardback first.

At last! I can tell you about some of the very exciting things that I know about and that you don’t, or rather didn’t know until now!

Today I can finally reveal not one, but two of my Black Library novels. In case the picture above doesn’t give it away, one is Skarsnik, about the infamous night goblin warlord.

I’m a big Warhammer fan, as you might know. I started playing in 1984 with the first edition of the fantasy game. That’s right, when there was none of this new fangled Warhammer 40,000 business and Toughness values were represented by letters. I was 11. I’m now 39, so I’ve been playing for 28 years. And I still play. I love it. (Playing for so long puts on odd perspective on things – I bought myself a little birthday gift on Wednesday, a box of plastic bikers for my 40k ork army. I’ve wanted these for ages. To me they are “new models”. They came out five years ago).

I’ve always been a massive greenskin fan, leading orcs and goblins since day one. For years they lost, but the last half decade has been kind to my green minions and they now win more often than not. It helps that Skarsnik himself is my army general. Want to see my army list? Here it is.

Skarsnik’s Stabbas

(I date all my army lists when I draw them up. This is the most recent variation on Skarsnik’s army, but it really doesn’t change that much. The last game I played with this was 7/5/2012. It represents but a small proportion of my greater goblin horde. No, I don’t have any orcs in my army, although I have Ruglud’s Armoured Orcs prepped for painting because they are very cool. Other orcs can go feed my squigs. Literally).

Naturally I was well up for it when Nick Kyme at The Black Library suggested I write a novel about Skarsnik. Nick worked for me when I edited White Dwarf magazine, now I kind of work for him. A strange reversal, but a fruitful one. Our earlier association means he knows full well how much I like my goblins.

I’ve put up a page on Skarsnik here with a brief breakdown of the plot, so I won’t repeat myself, but I will tell you some of what I am trying to do with the story. A lot of people see goblins as funny, comic relief characters (why, just check out The Black Library’s own blog post to see how prevalent this attitude is). Granted, they are funny, but they are also vicious, wicked, baby-eating horrors of the first degree. “Ooh! Look at the funny goblins”, gamers say. Yeah well, you wouldn’t want to be bound to spiky stick in a stinky cave with a lot of them standing around you. They’d have knives, and they’d be laughing. Not so funny now, are they?

Come to think of it, you probably don’t want to face mine on the battlefield either.

So, I wanted to capture both sides of this character. You’ll see how amusing and horrifying goblins are as we watch Skarsnik trick, wheedle and stab his way from sporeling to king of Karak Eight Peaks. For non-goblin fanatics there is plenty of skaven and dwarf action, with a little bit of the Empire thrown in. Truly, Skarsnik i’s a cornucopic fantasy delight.

Now to the other project. Sharp eyes might have seen this on Amazon. Yes, I’ve also written a Warhammer 40,000 novel called Baneblade. It’s about the tank of the same name. Although I wrote this book quite a while ago, and it is actually out some time before Skarsnik, the arcane nature of publishing dictates that I can say only that it’s about a young lieutenant of a noble house who joins a veteran baneblade crew. And that’s your lot.

By the Emperor, there’s more! I’m also writing another book for BL called [REDACTED] about the [REDACTED] and the [REDACTED] who must [REDACTED] before [REDACTED] and the [REDACTED] is [REDACTED]! I’ve not finished writing that yet but I’m having a lot of fun with it. More later when I am free to talk.

Of course, none of this is out for a while, so why not (blatant plug time! Please forgive me, I have to eat) check out my Richards & Klein books. A buddy-cop adventure series set in the 22nd century that pairs a dour, ex-military German cyborg with a wiseass super computer in a trenchcoat. Click here for more on both books, and free R&K short stories “The Nemesis Worm” and “Ghost”. You may also like Champion of Mars, an epic tale spanning millennia from the next century to the far, far future of the Red Planet.

There are further free short stories here on the site (of varying vintage, so perhaps not me at my best, but still interesting). There are some others you can buy if you wish at The Angry Robot Trading Company.

Right, you’ve been good and read my pleading for you to buy my books. In return, please feel free to ask me anything about anything – including these hot, newly announced BL titles – in the comments. Games, journalism, GW, Mantic, SFX, White Dwarf, whatever. I will answer what I am allowed to. Think of it as an interview by you, if you like.

If you’re into wargaming, you might want to follow me on this blog and/or on twitter, as there will be another announcement on the little toy men front soon. Plus there’s all the SF/Fantasy/Horror reviews, interviews, features and so forth you get regularly on this site. On twitter you might have to put up with a bunch of stuff about dogs, beer, social issues, the environment and children, but I do talk about gaming, SF and writing sometimes.

Thank you for your attention. Guy out.

We already knew The Primarchs was awesome, but now it’s official!

The Latest Horus Heresy title has become the 7th book in the series to make the New York Times bestsellers list. To celebrate, we’re releasing a brand new Horus Heresy eShort by author Graham McNeill.

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