Black library news and rumours (including Horus Heresy stuff)...

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**BrookM**

BL is really taking steps to keep people in the loop, just look at their Twitter feed and their Facebook account, almost daily updates and links on things, not to mention sneak peeks and whatnots.

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

Isn't it awesome when a company keeps interest going with regular updates, sneak previews and embraces new technology to let loose snippets of what they've got planned for the future.

Much better than stonewalling the customer base, treating the internet like a necessary evil and keeping them in the dark about fething everything.

**Flachzange**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Isn't it awesome when a company keeps interest going with regular updates, sneak previews and embraces new technology to let loose snippets of what they've got planned for the future.

Much better than stonewalling the customer base, treating the internet like a necessary evil and keeping them in the dark about fething everything.

Qft!
Brook said it all. They make sure that the customers know whats goin on. Look at their current "site". Its nothing but a list of upcoming stuff. Cant go wrong with that really.

I also just got a notice from amazon. Both, A thousand Sons and Solhunter (both were due out beginning of March) are supposed to be shipping December 22nd. Woot

**Kanluwen**

Whoa. Soul Hunter comes out THIS month?

**Flachzange**

Its what my amazon preorder says, yes!

**BrookM**

We'll just have to see what happens when the new BL site goes live early 2010, though I've got a feeling BL will be keeping up the constant stream of Facebook posts and Tweets because it works so bloody well. But with their site back up again, at least we'll be getting a better preview of what's to come, with pictures!

**reds8n**

reds8n wrote:

November :
Zombieslayer by Nathan Long

which I'm looking forward to already.

Got Sons of Dorn and Shadowking by the bedside, just finished Dark Creed, another cracking chaos book, with the Imperium giving as good as they get for once really. All 3 of the Word Bearer books are worth picking up if you're a chaos fan.

**Flachzange**

Still waiting for Dark Creed sadly, but I absolutely agree with you. Great series! I have really enjoyed the first two.

Finally got through my finals, so I now actually have the time to read some of the books Ive been getting lately lol

**BrookM**

I'm still waiting for Maelstrom to send me Shadow King sadly.

I did finally get to read Innocence Proves Nothing. A fun read, but Sandy sucks at making you feel worried about his characters much. Great dialogue though, poor action sequences.

**Kanluwen**

BrookM wrote:I'm still waiting for Maelstrom to send me Shadow King sadly.

I did finally get to read Innocence Proves Nothing. A fun read, but Sandy sucks at making you feel worried about his characters much. Great dialogue though, poor action sequences.

Waiting for Amazon to send me Shadow King here

Love Alith-Anar's story, hoping it works out well.

**BrookM**

I really enjoyed the first novel, can't see why people hate Gav so much.

**Thanatos_elNyx**

reds8n wrote:
November :
Zombieslayer by Nathan Long

When are tehy going to bring out Snotlingslayer?
He has killed near everything else!

**Alpharius**

Thanatos_elNyx wrote:
reds8n wrote:
November :
Zombieslayer by Nathan Long

When are tehy going to bring out Snotlingslayer?
He has killed near everything else!

Good one!

I just laughed out loud, and got weird looks - but it was worth it!

**reds8n**

1 3rd of the way through Shadow King now, and enjoying it very much.

Meanwhile..more covery goodness...

**Malika2**

Oh my...now that;s a muscular Commissar, he kind of likes like the Kurgan from Highlander or Peter Steele from Type O Negative in a Commissar's uniform!

**Dark Lord Seanron**

Woot! More Cain ^^

**Flachzange**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:Woot! More Cain ^^

qft

**Alpharius**

Malika2 wrote:Oh my...now that;s a muscular Commissar, he kind of likes like the Kurgan from Highlander or Peter Steele from Type O Negative in a Commissar's uniform!

Possibly riffing on the theme of the series - the Imperial Truth vs. Reality?

**BrookM**

I see BL is really milking Cain just like Gaunt. Ugh.

At least the Empire series is still being continued. It's okay so far, especially Reiksguard was good.

**Death By Monkeys**

Yeah, but at least the Cain novels have a better sense of humor about themselves than the Gaunt novels do.

What's up with the combi-flamer in Firedrake? Where's the barrel for the bolter?

**reds8n**

Yes it was wasn't it ?

I enjoyed Iron Company too, although that was a little more predictable.

I think with the Cain covers are indeed supposed to be overly muscled and a tip o' the hat to Conan et al as an added joke given the characters actual cowardice and self interest.

**BrookM**

The Cain covers are supposed to be the sort of propaganda that lies about the man. Cain is made more muscular and his laspistol is replaced by a bolter to make him stand out more as the so-called Hero of the Imperium. I wouldn't call Cain a coward though, in the end, yawn, his intentions are noble and not always self-serving. Sandy can write fun dialogue but his action sequences are rather dull and not exciting one bit, same with his Dark Heresy novels really: great setting and fun word bubbles, but meh on the action.

I found Iron Company okay, if a bit too predictable and a bit hmm, odd. The ideas were sound, but too cliché in the end.

**reds8n**

Not BL/GW as such, but there's an interview with James Swallow about writing tie in fiction and novelisations here.

**BrassScorpion**

A Thousand Sons (Horus Heresy)
(Mass Market Paperback)
416 pages
$8.99 on Amazon.com, eligible for free shipping
Release date is somewhere between late Feb. to early March.

**reds8n**

..hell yeah...

**skrulnik**

That cover is awesome.

What is the story about?

Automatically Appended Next Post:
It looks like a Custodes and a possessed Word Bearer.

**Platuan4th**

Death By Monkeys wrote:What's up with the combi-flamer in Firedrake? Where's the barrel for the bolter?

It's above the Flame nozzle. It only looks confusing, because the nozzle's guard extends up to cover the barrel. That weird cutaway curve at the top is where the barrel, you can see the tip pointing out.

**BrookM**

reds8n wrote:..hell yeah...

I liked his Cadians novel, I hated his Crimson Fists short where you had really young astartes doing grown up stuff. I'm not sure what to make of this.

**skrulnik**

BrookM wrote:
reds8n wrote:..hell yeah...

I liked his Cadians novel, I hated his Crimson Fists short where you had really young astartes doing grown up stuff. I'm not sure what to make of this.

Didn't read that. But did you ever read Ender's Game? It worked for that story.

**Scottywan82**

Must know what first Heretic is about.....