Black Library 2017 News/Rumours Thread : Xmas Advent

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**VeteranNoob**

Rob did Serp Beneath. Graham did Seventh Serpent out wide this release cycle (added that for me)

**alphaecho**

Up for pre-order on the UK Amazon site:

Guilliman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roboute-Guilliman-Ultramar-Heresy-Primarchs/dp/1784964417/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1459358948&sr=8-2&keywords=guilliman

Leman Russ
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leman-Russ-Great-Heresy-Primarchs/dp/1784964492/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DFBNHREAEWJ96S7VGK5

**BrookM**

Oh my me.. http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/eisenhorn-trilogy-hb.html

If I wasn't on a budget and I didn't already own both the omnibus and the re-released trilogy, I'd be all over this one.

**Knockagh**

I bought that one straight away! Lovely job BL, my old copies look pretty beat up. I smell a Ravenor set followed by Bequin???

**BrookM**

Bah, they need to finish the Bequin trilogy first.

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/HH-pop-up-book.html

The Horus Heresy Pop-up Book

Watch the heroes and villains of your favourite series enter the third dimension with this unique Horus Heresy product.

READ IT BECAUSE
You'll see the artwork of the Horus Heresy in a whole new way... As you turn each page, you'll be immersed in Neil Roberts' amazing covers as never before, as your favourite characters rise up before you. It's a unique experience and you'd be a fool to miss out!

See Neil Roberts' art from the covers of the bestselling Horus Heresy series as never before! The new Horus Heresy Pop-Up Book features selected artwork from the series presented in a whole new way... with pop-up characters! Turn the page and see Horus, the Emperor, Guilliman and more of your favourite characters come to life (or at least rise up into the third dimension) before your very eyes!

.not bad

**jonolikespie**

reds8n wrote:
http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/HH-pop-up-book.html

The Horus Heresy Pop-up Book

Watch the heroes and villains of your favourite series enter the third dimension with this unique Horus Heresy product.

READ IT BECAUSE
You'll see the artwork of the Horus Heresy in a whole new way... As you turn each page, you'll be immersed in Neil Roberts' amazing covers as never before, as your favourite characters rise up before you. It's a unique experience and you'd be a fool to miss out!

See Neil Roberts' art from the covers of the bestselling Horus Heresy series as never before! The new Horus Heresy Pop-Up Book features selected artwork from the series presented in a whole new way... with pop-up characters! Turn the page and see Horus, the Emperor, Guilliman and more of your favourite characters come to life (or at least rise up into the third dimension) before your very eyes!

.not bad

Oh god... Given the way BL has been going recently I really fell for that.

**Warhams-77**

Daemonifuge gets re-released:

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Daemonifuge-Graphic-Novel

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/new-titles/new-coll/space-marine-30-bundle.html

Space Marines: 30th Anniversary Mega Bundle

For One Month Only!
30 tales for £30

Celebrate 30 years of Space Marines with 30 great stories from the Black Library archives featuring mankind's dauntless defenders – at a truly amazing price.

READ IT BECAUSE
It's an essential collection of stories featuring no fewer than 29 different Space Marine Chapters, written across 25 years. What better way could there be to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Adeptus Astartes?

This digital bundle includes the following eBooks in a zip file:

A Son's Burden by Andy Smillie
Altar of Cyrene by Lucien Soulban
Black Dawn by C L Werner
Bloodline by James Swallow
Cause and Effect by S P Cawkwell
Cover of Darkness by Mitchel Scanlon
Crossed Swords by Ben Counter
Crucible by John French
Culling the Horde by Steve Parker
Deathwing by Bryan Ansell & William King
Devil's Trappings by Nick Kyme
Dishonoured by Ray Harrison
Doom Flight by Cavan Scott
Exhumed by Steve Parker
Flesh by Chris Wraight
Hell Night by Nick Kyme
Kraken by Chris Wraight
The Long Games at Carcharias by Rob Sanders
None More Loyal by Mike Lee
Penumbral Spike by Ben Counter
Remorseless by Josh Reynolds
The Dread Sentinels of Dorn by Rob Sanders
The Rite of Holos by Guy Haley
The Shadow of the Beast by L J Goulding
The Trial of the Mantis Warriors by C S Goto
The Tribute of Flesh by David Annandale
Tower of Blood by Tony Ballantyne
Two Kinds of Fool by Graham McNeill
With Baited Breath by George Mann
Within These Walls by C Z Dunn

**Nicky J**

It's an essential collection of stories featuring no fewer than 29 different Space Marine Chapters, written across 25 years. What better way could there be to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Adeptus Astartes?

er, stories featuring 30 Space Marine Chapters, maybe...?

**totalfailure**

Nicky J wrote:

er, stories featuring 30 Space Marine Chapters, maybe...?

Well, there are in fact 30 stories for thirty years. Only 29 Chapters, though, as the Crimson Fists are stars of two of the stories....

**Knockagh**

Eisenhorn all sold out. That's the fastest limited edition sale since I don't know when. Usually they sit for months and months. Still waiting on mine arriving, gggrrrr

**BrookM**

To celebrate 30 years of Space Marines, we've compiled a list of the top 30 Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines from Black Library stories.

Well, we tried: we actually came up with so many that we couldn’t fit them all in a list of 30!
Who’s your favourite Space Marine from a Black Library tale?

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/new-titles/new-novs/night-lords-trilogy-hb.html

looks great -- and is a great read

...some new stories though would be good eh ?

**VeteranNoob**

I am Alpharius!

**BrookM**

The trilogy is amazing and although it's tempting to get it again, I think my original one is already awesome enough:

IIRC Red's copy is also signed, making it the second he ever signed.

**reds8n**

Indeed, and many thanks for that !

**reds8n**

It's not Bl as such but....

https://www.blackgate.com/2016/03/29/win-a-copy-of-the-emperors-railroad-first-book-of-the-dreaming-cities-by-guy-haley/

Two weeks ago we had a look at Tor.com‘s impressive catalog of recent fantasy titles, and gave away free copies of each of their March releases. Today, we’d like to do something just as exciting: give you a chance to win one of three advance copies of Guy Haley’s new novella The Emperor’s Railroad, the opening installment of a terrific new adventure fantasy series, The Dreaming Cities.
What’s it about? Zombies! City States! Prehistoric beasts! Mutants and machine relics! Check out this awesome description.
Global war devastated the environment, a zombie-like plague wiped out much of humanity, and civilization as we once understood it came to a standstill. But that was a thousand years ago, and the world is now a very different place.
Conflict between city states is constant, superstition is rife, and machine relics, mutant creatures and resurrected prehistoric beasts trouble the land. Watching over all are the silent Dreaming Cities. Homes of the angels, bastion outposts of heaven on Earth. Or so the church claims. Very few go in, and nobody ever comes out.
Until now…
How do you win a copy? Easy! Just send an e-mail to john@blackgate.com with the subject “The Emperor’s Railroad.” That’s all it takes! Three winners will be drawn at random from all qualifying entries, and each will receive one of our precious advance proofs.
All entries become the property of New Epoch Press. No purchase necessary. Must be 12 or older. Decisions of the judges (capricious as they may be) are final. Not valid where prohibited by law, or anywhere postage for a trade paperback is more than, like, 10 bucks (practically, that means US only).
The Emperor’s Railroad will be published by Tor.com on April 19, 2016. It is 177 pages, priced at $12.99 in trade paperback and $2.99 for the digital edition. The cover is by Chris McGrath.
Quinn returns in The Ghoul King, to be be published by Tor.com on July 12, 2016. It is 176 pages, priced at $12.99 in trade paperback and $2.99 for the digital edition. The cover is by Chris McGrath. Here’s the description:
The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world – whatever that means, any more – to restock his small but essential inventory.
After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot.
But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many…
Thanks to Tor.com for making the contest possible! For more details on Tor.com‘s entire novella line, check out their online catalog:
New Releases
Coming Soon
Free Short Fiction — hundreds of free short stories and novelettes at Tor.com
We’ve previously covered a baker’s dozen Tor.com novellas; see the complete list below.
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Last Witness by K. J. Parker
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
The Builders by Daniel Polansky
Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
The Shootout Solution by Michael R. Underwood
The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Patchwerk by David Tallerman
Check out the first ten Tor.com novellas (with sample chapters!) here.
See all of our coverage of the best in upcoming fantasy here.

Read several of Mr Haley's non BL books and enjoyed them immensely --... TBf his BL books have been good too

**Alpharius**

Only 177 pages?

For $12.99?

Is that page count right?

Anyway, it certainly sounds interesting enough - a bit like 40K meets Vampire Hunter D so...

...I'm in!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

reds8n wrote:
It's not Bl as such but....

https://www.blackgate.com/2016/03/29/win-a-copy-of-the-emperors-railroad-first-book-of-the-dreaming-cities-by-guy-haley/

Two weeks ago we had a look at Tor.com‘s impressive catalog of recent fantasy titles, and gave away free copies of each of their March releases. Today, we’d like to do something just as exciting: give you a chance to win one of three advance copies of Guy Haley’s new novella The Emperor’s Railroad, the opening installment of a terrific new adventure fantasy series, The Dreaming Cities.
What’s it about? Zombies! City States! Prehistoric beasts! Mutants and machine relics! Check out this awesome description.
Global war devastated the environment, a zombie-like plague wiped out much of humanity, and civilization as we once understood it came to a standstill. But that was a thousand years ago, and the world is now a very different place.
Conflict between city states is constant, superstition is rife, and machine relics, mutant creatures and resurrected prehistoric beasts trouble the land. Watching over all are the silent Dreaming Cities. Homes of the angels, bastion outposts of heaven on Earth. Or so the church claims. Very few go in, and nobody ever comes out.
Until now…
How do you win a copy? Easy! Just send an e-mail to john@blackgate.com with the subject “The Emperor’s Railroad.” That’s all it takes! Three winners will be drawn at random from all qualifying entries, and each will receive one of our precious advance proofs.
All entries become the property of New Epoch Press. No purchase necessary. Must be 12 or older. Decisions of the judges (capricious as they may be) are final. Not valid where prohibited by law, or anywhere postage for a trade paperback is more than, like, 10 bucks (practically, that means US only).
The Emperor’s Railroad will be published by Tor.com on April 19, 2016. It is 177 pages, priced at $12.99 in trade paperback and $2.99 for the digital edition. The cover is by Chris McGrath.
Quinn returns in The Ghoul King, to be be published by Tor.com on July 12, 2016. It is 176 pages, priced at $12.99 in trade paperback and $2.99 for the digital edition. The cover is by Chris McGrath. Here’s the description:
The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world – whatever that means, any more – to restock his small but essential inventory.
After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot.
But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many…
Thanks to Tor.com for making the contest possible! For more details on Tor.com‘s entire novella line, check out their online catalog:
New Releases
Coming Soon
Free Short Fiction — hundreds of free short stories and novelettes at Tor.com
We’ve previously covered a baker’s dozen Tor.com novellas; see the complete list below.
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
Sunset Mantle by Alter S. Reiss
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Last Witness by K. J. Parker
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
The Builders by Daniel Polansky
Domnall and the Borrowed Child by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
The Shootout Solution by Michael R. Underwood
The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Patchwerk by David Tallerman
Check out the first ten Tor.com novellas (with sample chapters!) here.
See all of our coverage of the best in upcoming fantasy here.

Read several of Mr Haley's non BL books and enjoyed them immensely --... TBf his BL books have been good too

I gave this a go Sadly the postage cost apparently make mailing a 'win' to the UK impossible, but he did say he's look into the possibility of a digital version if I did win (so if you're only interested in a print version you probably need to be in the USA)

**Hulksmash**

Well I just started the Beasts Arises series. And I'm really enjoying I Am Slaughter. Definitely a different and interesting Imperium. It's good enough I'll get the second book. I do wish they weren't the equivalent of less than 200pgs once you set aside the font size and type set but it's a minor gripe.

**Kanluwen**

THE STORY
It is the 41st millennium, and an upstart alien empire has emerged on the Eastern Fringe. After a few skirmishes to retake human worlds from these blue-skinned invaders, the time has come to strike against the so-called Tau Empire. At the forefront of the Damocles Crusade stand the Ultramarines, commanded by Captain Atheus, the Chapter’s Lord Executioner. With his loyal sergeants Numitor and Sicarius by his side, Atheus vows to exterminate the aliens… But the cunning xenos commanders, Farsight and Shadowsun, have other plans.

READ IT BECAUSE
It's a look at an early encounter between the Tau and the Imperium, shown from both sides. See how both races view each other, through the eyes of some of their greatest heroes as they clash over the fate of a world. Plus, it's a rare chance to see Farsight when he was still loyal to the Ethereals and fighting alongside Shadowsun.

Written by Phil Kelly

This went up

**reds8n**

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Home/primarchs-remind-me.html

hey look ! A special edition ...

**Yaraton**

...No doubt for special people only to be re-printed for the rest of us who don't buy into BL schemes anymore.

**foostick**

I can actually see limited editions working for these, fans of a particular Legion can get the specific ones they like.

They should scrap them for the Heresy, just means people are waiting ages in some cases for a reasonably priced version of something to fill in the gaps. I've still not read of the Tallarn arc due to the main part of that being a limited edition.

**Hulksmash**

I'd probably grab my primarch in a limited edition. Not gonna lie.

**reds8n**

... One worries what Perturabo's one will be written on, and if it'll rust ?

Might be some heading issues with Ferrus' one, whilst Russ' one smells awful if you get it wet.

There will be regular/non collectible versions of these a short time after the special editions go on sale.

And BL said, via FB that the legacy/MMPB version of Deathfire will be on sale end of this/start of next month.

Finally !

**BrookM**

I wonder if AD-B will be doing the Night Haunter novel.

One can hope right?

**Alpharius**

I'm actually more excited for the "Primarchs" series than for the rest of the 'proper' HH stuff.

I'd rather we get those stories, and more on the beginnings of the Emperor's rise to power and the early stages of the Great Crusade than...just about anything else BL might put out.

**Azreal13**

reds8n wrote:
... One worries what Perturabo's one will be written on, and if it'll rust ?

Might be some heading issues with Ferrus' one, whilst Russ' one smells awful if you get it wet.

Fulgrim.

Eew.