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First off first thread on Dakka so if its not the sort of thread that should be in this section or even on these forums please just let me know.

On to my point, please someone explain to me why GW employed a man who by his own admission does not like Space Wolves to write the Space Wolves perspective of the Battle of Prospero? No Space Wolves for 149 pages of the book is a travesty.

I don't see your point. You might want clarify a little more.

probably because no-one wanted to do it and he was cheap.

Mr Nobody wrote:I don't see your point. You might want clarify a little more.

In Prospero Burns it takes an amazing amount of time (149 pages) before we actually see a space wolf, Dan Abnett has said before that he doesn't like Space Wolves, this to me doesn't seem to be a coincidence. So why ask a writer who doesn't like the subject to write a book?

because he's a good writer, simple enough ...

Because his name is Dan Abnett. Which will sell books.

Half of the Black Library authors are terrible. I mean, turbolasers. And space marines wielding multilasers. And Eldar surfing into battle on rhinos.

Dashofpepper wrote:And Eldar surfing into battle on rhinos.

?!?!?!????

i've only really heard of:

C. SMultilaser (This pleases him). Gotmultilaser

What book is this where a SPESS MAHREEN wields a multilaser?

coolyo294 wrote:What book is this where a SPESS MAHREEN wields a multilaser?

This old wikipedia article should help

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassern_S._Goto&oldid=356156440

and the current one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassern_S._Goto (non vandalized)

Ah, I miss the vandalized version. So awesome.

One of the comments is "what is all this multilaser stuff?"

I personally find the Rhino that turns into a Land Raider that turns into a Razorback the best.

I just give a little chuckle when I noticed little errors:
Rynn's world:
page 273, line 15 "cycled down the barrels of his assault cannon"
page 272, line 15 "barrels of his assault cannon"
page 271, line 10 & 11 "cycling his assault cannon"
page 260, line 14 & 15 "cycled the clustered barrels of his auto-cannon"
wait, what?

There's something i don't get with mr multilaser, his writing is substandard to begin with... but he can never, ever create an appealing character, that you actually care about / emphasise with. Abnett seems to do this in his sleep.

yep. Even I can do that in my army fluff. I bet, if you wandered around britain asking everyone to write a 40k novel, give them the info, and leave them for a year, 90% of them can do better than C.S.hit.

OH trust me, creating appealing characters and developing them is hard work. Very, very, hard work. SOmetimes it's completely hit or miss...the same character you fall in love with will be despised by your readers and vice versa. So yeah...I won't rip into him for bad characters, nor will I say he's so bad that all the world can write better than him. What makes him bad for me is his inability to remem his own details, as wel as a flagrant disregard for the background.

It's just that Black Library forgot Sturgeon's law, and instead of sticking to the top 10% started digging a little deeper, and started digging into the crap.

ChrisWWII wrote:OH trust me, creating appealing characters and developing them is hard work. Very, very, hard work. SOmetimes it's completely hit or miss...the same character you fall in love with will be despised by your readers and vice versa. So yeah...I won't rip into him for bad characters, nor will I say he's so bad that all the world can write better than him. What makes him bad for me is his inability to remem his own details, as wel as a flagrant disregard for the background.

It's just that Black Library forgot Sturgeon's law, and instead of sticking to the top 10% started digging a little deeper, and started digging into the crap.

not all the world- 90% of it.
He is still the worst writer I have seen.
C.S.hit IMO.

C.S.hit has written [one] good short story. One. It's in the "Let the Galaxy Burn" collection, I forget the name, but it's about the administratum menial, and the Vindicare assasin.

hey, it's catching on! EVERYONE! C.S.HIT!
Now fly, my internerds, go and spread something stupid that will end up how it always does- facebook-ese teen crap! fly!

shrike wrote:hey, it's catching on! EVERYONE! C.S.HIT!
Now fly, my internerds, go and spread something stupid that will end up how it always does- facebook-ese teen crap! fly!

95% of teens say c.s.goto if your one of the.... (seriously those sigs/comments annoy the hell outta me)

Me too. I like a sig of my own creating- fat bunny. he's trying to stop bunny from dominating the world by being sigged instead.

shrike wrote:Me too. I like a sig of my own creating- fat bunny. he's trying to stop bunny from dominating the world by being sigged instead.

That bunny could also be a Mogwai... i hope he isnt eating after midnight

C.S Goto?

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Thought I'd share his aproved portrait.

It pleases him.

Leave the guy alone. At least he writes. I don't care if he doesn't obey all the canon of background like a good little thrall. I think he tries to add some imagination to a very generic backdrop and yeah, that may annoy some purists who worry about whether or not its a multilaser or a gattling laser or a lasblaster or etc etc. Its fantasy fiction in space for gods sake, it doesn't have to make sense. It's not like he is defying the laws of physics in true hardcore Science Fiction type genre, he's just telling a story. In my mind, orcs had black skin and red eyes, as Tolkein described them, until GW came along and insisted they were green and everything about them was green. Now they are Greenskins. Let the imaginations do what they want rather than trying to apply the anal rules of a fictional reality to each and every author who tries his hand creating something within such a limited and restrained pre-existing universe.

Gibbsey wrote:

shrike wrote:Me too. I like a sig of my own creating- fat bunny. he's trying to stop bunny from dominating the world by being sigged instead.

That bunny could also be a Mogwai... i hope he isnt eating after midnight

"he isn't a mogwai, look- *pours water and crisps over it*- see? It's just an innocent littl-aaaaaargh!"
>comms end<

VikingScott wrote:C.S Goto?



Thought I'd share his aproved portrait.

It pleases him.

Nice. It pleases no-one. dead pic.

shrike wrote:
Nice. It pleases no-one. dead pic.

Check it again.

I don't think it was worthy of a facepalm.

you edited it after I posted, as my quote proves. it was worthy of a facepalm.
and what is with "this pleases me"?

You're now worthy of my huge ignore list.

Good bye.


Go complain about someone else who is not as technologically adept as you think you are.
Vikings don't do technology duh. Thus mistake with my image tags.

Never heard of this nonsense about Rino surfing Eldar, but a Multilaser wielding SM seems quite plausable.

Guitardian wrote:Leave the guy alone. At least he writes. I don't care if he doesn't obey all the canon of background like a good little thrall. I think he tries to add some imagination to a very generic backdrop and yeah, that may annoy some purists who worry about whether or not its a multilaser or a gattling laser or a lasblaster or etc etc. Its fantasy fiction in space for gods sake, it doesn't have to make sense. It's not like he is defying the laws of physics in true hardcore Science Fiction type genre, he's just telling a story. In my mind, orcs had black skin and red eyes, as Tolkein described them, until GW came along and insisted they were green and everything about them was green. Now they are Greenskins. Let the imaginations do what they want rather than trying to apply the anal rules of a fictional reality to each and every author who tries his hand creating something within such a limited and restrained pre-existing universe.

If your consistant fine, but he isnt. You have assault cannons turning into autocannons and rhinos turning into land raiders turning into razorbacks. (also wasnt he the author to have them riding ONTOP of the transports? )
If your not following the fluff fair enough artistic license and all, but it does need to be consistend and it does need to make sense


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shrike wrote:and what is with "this pleases me"?

It's "this pleases him" and it was all over his blog apparently, as in c.s. goto lives in california this pleases him.

And yeah rhino surfing Eldar??!??!? where did that come from