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Lord Kragan wrote:
So I got run over by a bus and gave myself quite the amount ofnfree time. Any WHFB recommendatio.
?

Ancient Blood(Strigany culture with a bit of Strigoi vampire actions), Beasts In Velvet(one of the Genevieve novels, the best one IMO even though it has the least of the titular character in it), the Black Plague trilogy from Time of Legends, the Florin & Lorenzo omnibus if you want a bit of light Gotrek & Felix-style adventuring, Doom of Dragonback and Grudge Bearer if you like Dwarfs, and the two Marienburg novels if you can stomach the second book ending on an obvious cliffhanger setup for the third novel that never happened. Alas you'll have to find most if not all of them secondhand on Amazon or elsewhere as I don't know how many BL actually bother to sell any more even as digital.

And as someone who was once clocked about the heid by the big ol' wing mirror on a bus - commiserations

 Looky Likey wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
...and?

More details, please!

Release date, synopsis, etc!

Fulgrim's Primarch book is 20th October, Ferrus is late January, so I would guess Khan is end of March?

byrd9999 wrote:
2 stories named so far for The Burden of Loyalty as Book 48 of the HH series: Wolf King by Chris Wraight and Cybernetica by Rob Sanders.

Tweeted by TrackofWords, and re-tweeted by Laurie Goulding, so probably official.

https://twitter.com/track_of_words

Laurie Goulding has said previously that everything Heresy-related will eventually be available in every format. Whether that will be literally true remains to be seen (hardback or audio drama of Battle for the Abyss, anyone?), i'd guess at the very least that means that every novella and short story will be anthologised in a numbered book eventually, and probably before the final trilogy.

Is it confirmed that it is book 48 yet? Trackofwords wasn't sure... There are a ton of HH books without a number so far, if they put all of those into numbered booked I think we'll see another half dozen at least anthologies. Not least of which there are the collections, which do not have a number: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy_Series#Collections

My guess is that because Laurie Goulding re-tweeted it without correction that it is #48. And the HH Collections have already been chopped up for the numbered anthology sets (e.g. War Without End), so I'd guess that ultimately the Collections will be redundant (apart from any Collector value).

A 60-book HH series is not unlikely.

Lord Kragan wrote:
So I got run over by a bus and gave myself quite the amount ofnfree time. Any WHFB recommendatio.
?

What characters or factions are you most interested in?

Either way, you can't go wrong with the William King Gotrek and Felix books or C.L. Werner's Brunner series. There were a lot of good, entertaining books set in the Warhammer world.

byrd9999 wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
...and?

More details, please!

Release date, synopsis, etc!

Fulgrim's Primarch book is 20th October, Ferrus is late January, so I would guess Khan is end of March?

byrd9999 wrote:
2 stories named so far for The Burden of Loyalty as Book 48 of the HH series: Wolf King by Chris Wraight and Cybernetica by Rob Sanders.

Tweeted by TrackofWords, and re-tweeted by Laurie Goulding, so probably official.

https://twitter.com/track_of_words

Laurie Goulding has said previously that everything Heresy-related will eventually be available in every format. Whether that will be literally true remains to be seen (hardback or audio drama of Battle for the Abyss, anyone?), i'd guess at the very least that means that every novella and short story will be anthologised in a numbered book eventually, and probably before the final trilogy.

Is it confirmed that it is book 48 yet? Trackofwords wasn't sure... There are a ton of HH books without a number so far, if they put all of those into numbered booked I think we'll see another half dozen at least anthologies. Not least of which there are the collections, which do not have a number: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy_Series#Collections

My guess is that because Laurie Goulding re-tweeted it without correction that it is #48. And the HH Collections have already been chopped up for the numbered anthology sets (e.g. War Without End), so I'd guess that ultimately the Collections will be redundant (apart from any Collector value).

A 60-book HH series is not unlikely.

You have read books that Laurie has "edited" right? Accuracy isn't his strong point.

If they are going to give everything a number, even as consolidated anthologies it'll be way more than 60, they haven't even scratched the surface of the collections, novellas, short stories, and audio dramas. I can totally buy them putting everything into collections that aren't numbered so they are available outside of limited edition formats or similar hard to obtain formats as they promised, but I do not buy them needing to give everything a number, that isn't a stated aim I've seen. Besides, a lot of the stuff they haven't yet put into a numbered book happens earlier in the series than the current free numbers, so the entire series would need to be renumbered otherwise the numbers become pointless.

I'm still holding onto them reaching the siege around book 50, that doesn't mean I think the series will finish at that point, just the opposite, it'll never finish as it is too popular a setting. To push out all the required anthologies/collections before progressing the story/slowing progression would reek of stalling.

 Looky Likey wrote:
Is it confirmed that it is book 48 yet? Trackofwords wasn't sure... There are a ton of HH books without a number so far, if they put all of those into numbered booked I think we'll see another half dozen at least anthologies. Not least of which there are the collections, which do not have a number: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy_Series#Collections

Well, there seem to be about 11 short stories, 8 audio dramas and 5 novellas (7 if we count The Honoured and The Unburdened) that have not been published in an anthology so far. Half a dozen anthologies would be possible I guess, but that kind of depends on how many more short stories and such get published in the mean time.

Finally got around to wrapping up the Eight Lamentations.

It was good but..

 BrookM wrote:
Finally got around to wrapping up the Eight Lamentations.

It was good but..

Spoiler:

The end felt a bit cheap, with nobody dead (though many badly mauled), the MacGuffin of ultimate power lost for the time being and seven more to go

Well yes

It does do a lot of great world building and the nods towards things that feel so wrong, like Dwarves who live in forests and using wood instead of stone and iron.

Volker and Vampire Knight Lady is my number one ship of this series!



It does make me want an actual kit for these vampire Knights now.

 BrookM wrote:
It does do a lot of great world building and the nods towards things that feel so wrong, like Dwarves who live in forests and using wood instead of stone and iron.

Volker and Vampire Knight Lady is my number one ship of this series!

Spoiler:

Mainly though because I seriously thought that both the priest and Zara would be dead by the end of the novel.

It does make me want an actual kit for these vampire Knights now.

Oddly enough some part of me thought of the same thing on the shipping aspect. For some reason I can see it happening.

Just finished "Cadia Stands" yesterday.

Fantastic read. Highly suggest.

 BrookM wrote:
Another upcoming legacy format release: http://www.blacklibrary.com/the-horus-heresy/novels/the-silent-war-ebook.html




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The Book Depository has it up for pre-order here at a discount.

picked mine up at my GW store yesterday.


Been rereading the Gaunt's Ghost series over the last couple of weeks, just started "The armour of contempt".

Series has really held up well IMO , although it was a bit terrifying to see that some of the books were 13-14 years old.


https://www.trackofwords.com/2017/10/15/upcoming-black-library-titles-as-of-october-2017/

has some other titbits about other books coming out.

Cheers for the link, especially looking forward to this one, as I knew a sequel would be coming, but never thought BL would green-light it so fast!



'Tis also the season for reprints it seems, though some are in need of some new love, Witch Hunter and Mike Lee's Nagash novels in particular are good stuff.

And this Lukas novel, prequel to his future exploits I suppose, as Sliscus was the one who replaced his heart with a bomb IIRC.

Hah, it's a sad irony that it took GW killing WHFB and Creative Assembly showing them up by making a success of the IP to finally prod BL into producing and reprinting all these omnibuses of Properhammer fiction.

On the plus side, in a few months I'll be able to swap out some of my rattier old paperbacks once these end up on Amazon for pennies(seriously, I will never get why some people turn their noses up at "used" books when there's mint or near-mint copies being practically given away).

AOS novel coming June 2018. I need this book like right now. Still I dig the proto art it was used in the first campaign book. Now we got a bigger image? I really like it. It's also pretty clear this novel is likely linking to the malign portents event. Can't wait for nagash and his forces to punk everyone it's going to be great.




Soul Wars by Josh Reynolds
June 2018 – hardback. Cover not final.

Nagash revives an ancient grudge with the God-King Sigmar as a ferocious new war between the living and the dead shakes the Mortal Realms.

The Mortal Realms tremble with unending war. In Shyish, the Realm of Death, an ancient evil stirs, sensing opportunity. Nagash, the Undying King and God of Death, sets his gaze upon the citadels of the living and the servants of Sigmar, the God-King of Azyr. Allies once, joined together against the machinations of the Ruinous Powers, the two gods now find themselves enemies. Nagash, burning with the need to avenge an ancient slight, calls forth his soulless legions to sweep across the realm he claims as his own and reassert death’s dominion over all things, as the War of Heaven and Death begins anew.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Hah, it's a sad irony that it took GW killing WHFB and Creative Assembly showing them up by making a success of the IP to finally prod BL into producing and reprinting all these omnibuses of Properhammer fiction.

On the plus side, in a few months I'll be able to swap out some of my rattier old paperbacks once these end up on Amazon for pennies(seriously, I will never get why some people turn their noses up at "used" books when there's mint or near-mint copies being practically given away).

What omnibuses are they reprinting? I might need to grab a bunch of them. The omnibuses and trade paperbacks only seem to go up in price used.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Hah, it's a sad irony that it took GW killing WHFB and Creative Assembly showing them up by making a success of the IP to finally prod BL into producing and reprinting all these omnibuses of Properhammer fiction.

On the plus side, in a few months I'll be able to swap out some of my rattier old paperbacks once these end up on Amazon for pennies(seriously, I will never get why some people turn their noses up at "used" books when there's mint or near-mint copies being practically given away).

What omnibuses are they reprinting? I might need to grab a bunch of them. The omnibuses and trade paperbacks only seem to go up in price used.

On top of the Sigmar books, we're getting reprints of Rise of Nagash, War of Vengeance, and Matthias Thulmann, plus a new omnibus of the Ulrika trilogy, and one with a few of the "famous gits of Chaos" novels in it. Hopefully they'll keep going.

 shinros wrote:
AOS novel coming June 2018. I need this book like right now. Still I dig the proto art it was used in the first campaign book. Now we got a bigger image? I really like it. It's also pretty clear this novel is likely linking to the malign portents event. Can't wait for nagash and his forces to punk everyone it's going to be great.




Soul Wars by Josh Reynolds
June 2018 – hardback. Cover not final.

Nagash revives an ancient grudge with the God-King Sigmar as a ferocious new war between the living and the dead shakes the Mortal Realms.

The Mortal Realms tremble with unending war. In Shyish, the Realm of Death, an ancient evil stirs, sensing opportunity. Nagash, the Undying King and God of Death, sets his gaze upon the citadels of the living and the servants of Sigmar, the God-King of Azyr. Allies once, joined together against the machinations of the Ruinous Powers, the two gods now find themselves enemies. Nagash, burning with the need to avenge an ancient slight, calls forth his soulless legions to sweep across the realm he claims as his own and reassert death’s dominion over all things, as the War of Heaven and Death begins anew.

Pretty pumped to see this.

Would those later collections have any shorts that we wouldn't have if we bought the individual books?

Oh Josh Reynolds and Undead - Excited

That's also a great cover.

His fantasy stuff in general is quite good. Really loved the world building he did for Spear of Shadows.

Furthermore his hammerhall novella will be up at the weekender! (i think)

I also noticed that the Rogue Trader audio drama is up for early grabs at the Weekender, nice!

Finished HH: Ruinstorm aka a chance for a Damnation of Pythos to be something more than a complete waste of paper. It is a necessary step to finale and solves many questions but at the same time it could be better written. We actually only have a 4 characters there - Primarchs. The rest could be as well given numbers like Legionnary 45 or creman 32 for all personality they show. It gives us insight into the Primarchs thoughts about future, past, their choices etc. but also spends too much time for bolter porn. A must read which could be so much better in the hands of Abnett etc.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Finished HH: Ruinstorm aka a chance for a Damnation of Pythos to be something more than a complete waste of paper. It is a necessary step to finale and solves many questions but at the same time it could be better written. We actually only have a 4 characters there - Primarchs. The rest could be as well given numbers like Legionnary 45 or creman 32 for all personality they show. It gives us insight into the Primarchs thoughts about future, past, their choices etc. but also spends too much time for bolter porn. A must read which could be so much better in the hands of Abnett etc.

If you could give us all the high points/relevant info here, in spoilers, we'd greatly appreciate it!

Dunno, people keep saying "Dan could've saved this" but I'd rather give it to ADB instead.

How are the Imperial Knight novels? Giant robot action seems like it could be a fun read. Worth picking up?

I liked it, the plot is predictable and done to death, but it's good fun to see how Imperial nobles behave inside and out of the cockpit. Plus it doesn't portray them as immortal death machines, but quite vulnerable and in need of infantry support.

Favourite part, slight spoilers..

Being tropey or predictable isn't a problem as long as it's enjoyable. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to grab it next time I'm hunting for a new book to read.

You're in luck, as a few months from now the sequel will be released. There is also a digital only quick-read that serves as a prequel to the novel itself.

 necrontyrOG wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Are the books SHADOWSWORD and BANEBLADE any good?

I really enjoyed them. Gave a pretty cool view to the running and the crew of a Superheavy with plenty of gratuitious bolter porn.

I enjoyed them too. I can’t stand bolster porn but I really enjoyed this look into the world of tank fighting! I’ve always thought of a tank as an utterly terrifying place to go to war in.