Black Library 2017 News/Rumours Thread : Xmas Advent

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**Knockagh**

Just finished I am slaughter. Took me far longer than it should as its a pretty small book and could easily be finished off in a couple of evenings but I have been busy getting 10000 turkeys finished off for all you hungry folks for Christmas day!

Really enjoyed the book, I'm not a major fights scene / bolter porn fan so the political side was great with the different dynamic of the period it's written in making it all the more interesting! The 32nd mil has a completely different feel to both 30 and 40k, this change in pace was handled superbly by Dan.

The fight scenes were good too, never going to be my favourite bits but still enjoyable and exciting. All in all a good start, looking forward to the rest of the series.

**reds8n**

I read -- and thoroughly enjoyed -- Portents, a Silver Skulls novel by Mamzel Cawkwell, was a e-book release some time ago, nice to have it in the "flesh", if you follow.

Currently on book 2 of the Ahriman series -- books 2 & 3 & Portent coming t'other week thanks to the free shipping.

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Home/the-horus-heresy-teaser.html

Watch out, traitors: Garro is back.
The new novella starring The Horus Heresy's knight in not-very-shining armour will be with us before the year's end. It comes from the pen of none other than 'Flight of the Eisenstein' author James Swallow, and brings Garro's missions for the Sigillite to an epic conclusion (for the time being at least).

.. well ... I'm, very, pleased to get more Garro stuff, although one would be happier with an actual novel than a novella.

Still have to wait and see what we get.

...

**Malika2**

Too bad it's not an audio book like he rest of the Garro series...

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/horus-heresy/hh-feat/hh-2016-calendar.html

The Horus Heresy 2016 Calendar

The first ever Horus Heresy calendar – only 450 available

Live 2016 to the accompaniment of new and classic Neil Roberts artwork with the Horus Heresy Calendar.

READ IT BECAUSE
It's a calendar – always useful – with 12 amazing images from the Horus Heresy, including several that have never been seen before for products that aren't out yet...

DESCRIPTION
Have artwork from the Horus Heresy on your wall for the whole of 2016 with the first ever official Horus Heresy Calendar. Every month brings a new or classic image by Neil Roberts, showcasing some of the finest covers from the series – including a few that have never been seen before.

FEATURES
12 month calendar running from January to December 2016
Large scale artwork – each piece measures 40cm/16" by 30cm/12"
Includes dates of major UK and US holidays
Seven never before seen pieces of art for titles released throughout 2016
Printed on 250gsm gloss paper

**Eldarain**

Not impressed that the Call of Archaon subscription series which was marketed as a savings just got undercut by 8 dollars in novel form the second the last issue came out.

I could understand it if there was a rather large gap between the series conclusion and the novels release but this feels rather like a bait and switch.

I'll be sure to wait for these series to conclude in the future.

**Haighus**

In the BL email telling me about the Garro novella, there was also this snippet:

Black Library wrote:2016 is set to be a great year for all fans of the Horus Heresy. You can look forward to a packed lineup of new novels and stories as the epic series turns towards its final, inevitable conclusion. But before that, there's plenty to round out 2015: a calendar, new Garro and a special Christmas surprise.

That seems... oddly promising. Maybe we will even get some plot progression!

**BrookM**

reds8n wrote:
http://www.blacklibrary.com/horus-heresy/hh-feat/hh-2016-calendar.html

The Horus Heresy 2016 Calendar

The first ever Horus Heresy calendar – only 450 available

Live 2016 to the accompaniment of new and classic Neil Roberts artwork with the Horus Heresy Calendar.

READ IT BECAUSE
It's a calendar – always useful – with 12 amazing images from the Horus Heresy, including several that have never been seen before for products that aren't out yet...

DESCRIPTION
Have artwork from the Horus Heresy on your wall for the whole of 2016 with the first ever official Horus Heresy Calendar. Every month brings a new or classic image by Neil Roberts, showcasing some of the finest covers from the series – including a few that have never been seen before.

FEATURES
12 month calendar running from January to December 2016
Large scale artwork – each piece measures 40cm/16" by 30cm/12"
Includes dates of major UK and US holidays
Seven never before seen pieces of art for titles released throughout 2016
Printed on 250gsm gloss paper

Gah, now this is tempting. I used to have a few of the previous calendars they did back then. This one certainly looks a whole lot sturdier.

**Yodhrin**

reds8n wrote:
No.

He was working on that, but talk is that it's been cancelled/postponed.

Digging about for more concrete facts.

Hoping that, worse case, its maybe been delayed to be released alongside the rumoured DW board game next year.

.. but that's entirely speculation on my part.

Might be some changes to the way BL work anyway it seems :

from Mr Thorpe

Given ongoing/ forthcoming structural changes, that's not going to be quite the same thing in the future. While it's going to take some time for everything to shake out again, the GW Publications bit will be concentrated on main releases and support (so the kind of thing we're mostly seeing at the moment) while BL will be returning to a more 'deepen, broaden the worlds based on the miniatures games' sort of approach. How or if this will affect scheduling, branding, etc, I have no idea.

I'm actually a little depressed to hear they're finally returning BL to the role it found its initial success in and which produced so many rich interesting stories, just in time for it to make no difference to whether the series' and locations I wanted more of(a conclusion to the Marienburg novels, more Brunner and Thulmann, some new Gotrek & Felix-style adventure novels, more Chaos & Dwarf material etc etc) will get more attention.

**Looky Likey**

Haighus wrote:
In the BL email telling me about the Garro novella, there was also this snippet:

Black Library wrote:2016 is set to be a great year for all fans of the Horus Heresy. You can look forward to a packed lineup of new novels and stories as the epic series turns towards its final, inevitable conclusion. But before that, there's plenty to round out 2015: a calendar, new Garro and a special Christmas surprise.

That seems... oddly promising. Maybe we will even get some plot progression!

That would be great news if they manage to wrap it up by next Christmas. A little weirdly timed considering GW have just starting making plastics for the Heresy.

I wonder what they'll do to the final book in the series to make it extra specially limited edition? I'm guessing they'll do a Horus themed one and an Emperor themed one, make collectors buy it twice.

**Haighus**

Well, I wouldn't be that optimistic, it says 'turning towards' not reaching the final conclusion, but it seems it will be getting close at least. I would expect at least a trilogy dedicated to just the siege of Terra though- one for the initial stages as Horus takes the outer system, one for the space battles lifting the blockade on Mars and taking Earth's orbit and the moon, and then the siege itself and the final conclusion we all know is coming...
Kind of mirroring the original trilogy that kicked it all off to be honest.

**Rayvon**

I should imagine that the approach to terra will be a long drawn out affair as well as the actual siege.

I cannot see them ending it in the next two or three years.

I quite like the fleshing out of the story, after all we know how the story ends for the most part, there have not been many of the main books that I have disliked much really, although I am easily pleased where primarchs are concerned !
Personally I am looking forward to hearing more about what happened to Russ and the sixth.

Really wanted a copy of that calender for my wall too, but as usual by the time i got myself home they have all gone.

**reds8n**

Aside from the Advent stories we also now have :

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/blades-of-traitor-sub.html

Blades of the Traitor Subscription

Five Horus Heresy audiobooks for the price of four!

Across the war-torn galaxy, those sworn to Horus's cause shake the Imperium to its very foundations. This collection contains five epic short stories by John French, Guy Haley, Nick Kyme, Graham McNeill and Chris Wraight.

SUBSCRIBE TO IT BECAUSE
The Audio Week: Blades of the Traitor Subscription brings you five epic, action-packed audiobook that drive the Horus Heresy forward. Discover what the Warmaster’s allies are up to as they prepare to march on Terra: sacrifices in the bowels of Molech’s Enlightenment, Legion Navigators delving through the very Eye of Terror and horrific experiments in dark, secret labs.
THE STORY
Across the war-torn galaxy, those sworn to Horus's cause shake the Imperium to its very foundations. Before the traitors' relentless onslaught, the wisdom of ages past is lost and forgotten, daemons hide amongst the common people and the warp's corrupting influence can be seen in almost every facet of the Heresy. For those who would become champions of the new order, there can surely be no redemption – only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods...

ABOUT THIS SUBSCRIPTION
Sign up to the Audio Week: Blades of the Traitor Subscription and whenever a new audiobook in the series is released, your account will be updated with the latest addition.

This subscription includes seven audiobooks, which will be released over the course of the week, one each day, in a zip file. The audiobooks are all taken from the Horus Heresy anthology, 'Blades of the Traitor'.

Monday: Daemonology by Chris Wraight
Tuesday: Black Oculus by John French
Wednesday: Twisted by Guy Haley
Thursday: Chirurgeon by Nick Kyme
Friday: Wolf Mother by Graham McNeill

HOW THIS SUBSCRIPTION WORKS
Whenever a new Audio Week: Blades of the Traitor title is released, your blacklibrary.com account will be updated with the latest MP3 release. You can purchase this subscription at any point during this promotion and you’ll immediately be able to download all the stories released up to that point. Subsequent ones will be added to your account as they are released.

Total running time: 4 hours, 11 minutes

Pretty certain that is 5 audio tales, not 7 as they later claim.

**H.B.M.C.**

... that drive the Horus Heresy forward

And pigs might fly.

**Marshal Loss**

Pigs may indeed fly in 2016 then, because it will be a good year for HH releases. The Gauntlet is coming

**Alpharius**

BL has made 40K and now 30K "Chaos" so boring, I just can't get excited about these releases...

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/pharos-ebook.html

Pharos -- next HH -- available early digitally.

Gonna have to wait, but it is Guy Haley so is very tempting..

also :

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Home/the-librarium.html

**BrookM**

Huh, not cool.

**Yaraton**

I am very tempted to pay $155 to tell BL how badly they suck.

**BrookM**

You didn't read all of it then smarty-pants, as they pick what reviews go up or not.

**Joyboozer**

BrookM wrote:
You didn't read all of it then smarty-pants, as they pick what reviews go up or not.

Yes, but by reading his review, they'd then know they suck!

Seriously, people will pay for the opportunity to review their "novels"?

**Mymearan**

Wait, since when does everyone hate BL? Is it because of HH oversaturation?

**ImAGeek**

Yeah basically, and the focus on limited edition novellas, digital short stories, etc. The actual Heresy series hasn't progressed for ages really.

**Grimskul**

Mymearan wrote:
Wait, since when does everyone hate BL? Is it because of HH oversaturation?

That and having to wade through tedious releases of the hardback and other expensive versions of stories before being able to get the paperback, which by then you'll already have likely forgotten about whatever book you were interested in.

**Theophony**

I thought the HH was over. I honestly stopped caring over a year (maybe 2) ago. Wish they would get back on track, but at this point

**farmersboy**

If I recall, I think we're about halfway through the Heresy?

**MajorWesJanson**

Malika2 wrote:
Too bad it's not an audio book like he rest of the Garro series...

Too bad the Garro stories are not in proper prose.

**Grarg**

Wait..... If pharos is book 34 and deathfure is book 32, what the hell was book 33???????

**H.B.M.C.**

Grarg wrote:
Wait..... If pharos is book 34 and deathfure is book 32, what the hell was book 33???????

Probably a super-special limited edition book that you could only buy between the hours of 10:15am and 10:20am, but only at Warhammer World and only on one Sunday a year and that specific Sunday isn't advertised beforehand.

**TwilightSparkles**

Yeah once the multiple formats, exclusivity, only during a full moon, ebay seller bait style releases began , I gave up. Hardback before softback was fine, that's an established trend. Novellas are ridiculous and before would have simply been a compilation. The story is so disjointed and spread out with snippets hidden in so e titles I'll have to wait years for to get a regular release that it's hopeless.

**farmersboy**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Grarg wrote:
Wait..... If pharos is book 34 and deathfure is book 32, what the hell was book 33???????

Probably a super-special limited edition book that you could only buy between the hours of 10:15am and 10:20am, but only at Warhammer World and only on one Sunday a year and that specific Sunday isn't advertised beforehand.

No, either there's a mistake on the website (perish the thought) or they haven't published it yet. All the numbered books in the series are novels or anthologies, available in the 9 month long issue of hardback/Trade paperback/proper paperback. Ebooks, novella's and limited editions never feature in the numbered series.

Well, that was until 'book' 34, Pharos, which has now completely screwed everything up. Well done BL, you couldn't organise an piss-up in a brewery.