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@overread All BL paperbacks are printed in the U.K. now. They bought a printing business a while back. Only the hardbacks still coming from China. Hopefully they will bring those home soon too. Nice to see indeed.

Ahh I did not know this (or if I did I completely forgot). My only defence is I don't tend to buy any paperbacks from BL. Most of the story books I own are digital or hardback special editions.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/06/aliens-among-us/
So we can expect a true greenskins novel? I did enjoy the short story by the author so I am definitely going to read it.

There is a 3 for 2 sale on Amazon Audible at present for members.


40K audiobooks present are:

Eisenhorn trilogy (Xenos, Malleus, Hereticus).

Primarchs series entries for Guilliman, Leman Russ and Magnus.

Audible also has the Dembski-Bowden Night Lords trilogy, FWIW. Assuming Audible is the same as Amazon Audible, one could pick up the entire trilogy for the cost of two audiobooks...

https://twitter.com/GuyHaley/status/1255039720737976320

I feel I have to butt in here and say that Dark Imperium and Plague War are off sale for a while for reasons that I can't disclose, but which are nevertheless cool. It will be back on sale after a break. There’s nothing sinister going on!

...hmmm ....

In other news - anyone heard anything about the next Inferno reprints? I've a feeling they should have appeared about "now" so just curious if they've got lost in the sea of Corona chaos

Reprints go up alongside the next Inferno! book, which would've been a month ago. They'll go up whenever GW resumes regular services and Inferno! #5 goes up for preorder.

 tinfoil wrote:
Audible also has the Dembski-Bowden Night Lords trilogy, FWIW. Assuming Audible is the same as Amazon Audible, one could pick up the entire trilogy for the cost of two audiobooks...

Yes, it's Amazon.

The 3 for 2 offer pages from the UK site didn't appear to include the Night Lords books at first glance. Which is a shame.

Yeah the only 40k/30k books on the offer were the 3 Primarch ones and the first 3 Eisenhorn ones.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/06/aliens-among-us/
So we can expect a true greenskins novel? I did enjoy the short story by the author so I am definitely going to read it.

I hate how in that article they describe Necrons as '...amongst the more human-ish of mankind’s xenos enemies'.

That illustrates everything which is wrong with the way Black Library and GW represent the Necrons.
They shouldn't have any more resemblance to humans than their basic anatomical form.
The race which was at the height of it's power aeons before the current species crawled from the primordial ooze; which can bend space and time to their will; that walked amongst, and then cast down, multiple god-like races; that have a vastly differing perception of time and mortality to any living race; and have trancended death itself.

Nah. Basically humans.

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/06/aliens-among-us/
So we can expect a true greenskins novel? I did enjoy the short story by the author so I am definitely going to read it.

I hate how in that article they describe Necrons as '...amongst the more human-ish of mankind’s xenos enemies'.

That illustrates everything which is wrong with the way Black Library and GW represent the Necrons.
They shouldn't have any more resemblance to humans than their basic anatomical form.
The race which was at the height of it's power aeons before the current species crawled from the primordial ooze; which can bend space and time to their will; that walked amongst, and then cast down, multiple god-like races; that have a vastly differing perception of time and mortality to any living race; and have trancended death itself.

Nah. Basically humans.

Yeah, Necrons should be even more distant than Eldar. Their way of thinking,their goals etc. should be totally alien to us. The only ones less approachable should be Tyranids.

The blurb on WarCom almost reads like the book would be about the Necrontyr specifically as it describes it.

But then they add, set between 30k to now.
Shame, as a novel pre Necron would be really cool


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First 99p audio I won’t be getting for this weeks offering.
Horus Rising.

Only because I already have it.

Excerpt from the new Lumineth book seems odd. I'm not familiar with the author, but the way the excerpt is written seems off.

It's like everything is overly described. "The enemy was like this, but we were like that. The enemy was like this, or that, or this other thing. Description. Description."
An actual quote from the book: "As one, the front line – Serath among them – took a unified step forward and brought all their greathammers crashing down, almost in unison, upon the front ranks of the servants of Slaanesh." We get it. They were in sync.

I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on the story when its officially released or if they enjoyed any of the author's other works.

In fact, there’s a whole novel on the way about the children of Teclis, fittingly titled Realm-lords and written by Dale Lucas in his Black Library novel debut.

It's the author's novel debut, as per the first introduction to the article.

It's his Black Library novel debut - looks like he has written other things:

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dale-lucas/

including an AoS short?

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/dale-lucas/blessed-oblivion.htm

but I haven't read any of his work...

Nothing out of the ordinary for most of the gw novels. You know it is a BL book when you can literary cross out half of the paragraph and the passage gets ten times better

GaroRobe wrote:
Excerpt from the new Lumineth book seems odd. I'm not familiar with the author, but the way the excerpt is written seems off.

It's like everything is overly described. "The enemy was like this, but we were like that. The enemy was like this, or that, or this other thing. Description. Description."
An actual quote from the book: "As one, the front line – Serath among them – took a unified step forward and brought all their greathammers crashing down, almost in unison, upon the front ranks of the servants of Slaanesh." We get it. They were in sync.

I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on the story when its officially released or if they enjoyed any of the author's other works.

From that excerpt it seems to read the same as some of the recent PA shorts, and some of the HH books, imo like it needs editing. This doesnt make me cringe as much as some of the PA stories though, at least this is just repetitive rather than like they swallowed a thesaurus or use too many adverbs.

I saw a preorder listing for a colorized Bloodquest rerelease. Did I miss a GW announcement?

Hasn't been announced yet, but will get for sure, the second book, Into the Eye of Terror (IIRC that was the title) was one of my first hobby purchases ever.

That was my thinking. Instant purchase. I sold them to a friend who was starting Blood Angels. I don't regret it as it really energized their enthusiasm for the game and background but I do miss having them.

If you are a fan of his Black Library work, author Josh Reynolds confirmed on his Twitter a couple days ago that Fabius Bile:Manflayer will be his last work for Black Library.
https://twitter.com/JMReynolds/status/1260914214421630981

 Eldarain wrote:
I saw a preorder listing for a colorized Bloodquest rerelease. Did I miss a GW announcement?

From Amazon UK:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Bloodquest-Warhammer-000-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1789992281/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589677212&sr=8-1


Colourised version in hardback of the first volume and due for release (at present) on 17 Sep 2020.


Loved the series but there was a distinct style difference between the first volume and the other two parts.

Colin MacNeill jumped from a very distinct pure black and white, simple style to something more, to my eyes, fabulous and deep.

Maybe it was because Warhammer Monthly was just starting and the budget wasn't there for anything more complex.

The Orks in the first episode were very firmly based on the 2nd Ed starter box though.

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/06/aliens-among-us/
So we can expect a true greenskins novel? I did enjoy the short story by the author so I am definitely going to read it.

I hate how in that article they describe Necrons as '...amongst the more human-ish of mankind’s xenos enemies'.

That illustrates everything which is wrong with the way Black Library and GW represent the Necrons.
They shouldn't have any more resemblance to humans than their basic anatomical form.
The race which was at the height of it's power aeons before the current species crawled from the primordial ooze; which can bend space and time to their will; that walked amongst, and then cast down, multiple god-like races; that have a vastly differing perception of time and mortality to any living race; and have trancended death itself.

Nah. Basically humans.

Look, players want to be able to identify with their necrons, to share their motivations, to name them “Chuck” and “Howard”. And we want them to feel they can. That’s just good business.

 totalfailure wrote:
If you are a fan of his Black Library work, author Josh Reynolds confirmed on his Twitter a couple days ago that Fabius Bile:Manflayer will be his last work for Black Library.
https://twitter.com/JMReynolds/status/1260914214421630981

That's a shame, had hoped for more Eight Lamentations.

alphaecho wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
I saw a preorder listing for a colorized Bloodquest rerelease. Did I miss a GW announcement?

From Amazon UK:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Bloodquest-Warhammer-000-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1789992281/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589677212&sr=8-1


Colourised version in hardback of the first volume and due for release (at present) on 17 Sep 2020.


Loved the series but there was a distinct style difference between the first volume and the other two parts.

Colin MacNeill jumped from a very distinct pure black and white, simple style to something more, to my eyes, fabulous and deep.

Maybe it was because Warhammer Monthly was just starting and the budget wasn't there for anything more complex.

The Orks in the first episode were very firmly based on the 2nd Ed starter box though.

I thought the mention of the first volume odd as it's listed with a page count very close to the 1-3 combined edition.

No idea how accurate these preorder listings are though.

 totalfailure wrote:
If you are a fan of his Black Library work, author Josh Reynolds confirmed on his Twitter a couple days ago that Fabius Bile:Manflayer will be his last work for Black Library.
https://twitter.com/JMReynolds/status/1260914214421630981

Very sad news. He was one of my favourite wh40k authors.

Given some of his comments over the years, I'm significantly less sad. But best of luck to him, the world is absolutely crying out for more pseudo-Lovecraft mystery stories...

 Yodhrin wrote:
Given some of his comments over the years, I'm significantly less sad.

Could you please explain? I am not familiar with any of his comments.

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Given some of his comments over the years, I'm significantly less sad.

Could you please explain? I am not familiar with any of his comments.

I believe he celebrated 'being part' of blowing up the Old World and gloated that it upset fans of WHFB.

I could be remembering the exact comments wrong but I definitely remember his Twitter profile remarked on it for a while at least.