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 alphaecho wrote:
That's because it was never going to be the final book.

It's the final story...in 50 volumes...with sideways quest novellas...and minor quest pamphlets...

And that will lead into the Vengeful Spirit Series, which is 10-part series (plus side-stories, audio-dramas and a few short-story collections) giving us everything that happened aboard Horus' flagship leading up to the final fight between Horus and the Emperor.

This of course brings us to the Father & Son Trilogy, a trio of novels (with several W+ only short-stories released over the 24 months it will take to release the trilogy) that covers the final battle between the Emperor and Horus.

And, then, the Aftermath Series, a 6-part series (plus two audio-dramas and a W+ animated series of shorts) which deals with the Emperor's internment upon the Golden Throne and the immediate fallout from the Siege of Terra.

I have a war neighbouring my country, and I bet it will end sooner than that bloody series.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

 The Phazer wrote:
I mean, Abnett has definitely said before that his personal cannon is that it's probably just an entire room of radioactive gubbins and any suggestion there's a throne at all is probably all psychic projection, so I'm not surprised they think he looks any size he wants.

And there have been multiple suggestions from the books that the Emperor is much smaller than usually depicted and it's all just a psychic bluff.

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John Blanche has also said this. All artistic representations of the Emperor sitting on a literal golden throne are just allegorical. The actual Golden Throne is a vast machine.

Chris Wraight has also gone this route, the Emperor is pretty much built in and buried underneath all that machinery that's been added on over time, with barely anything visible of Him.

Relevant again.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 alphaecho wrote:
That's because it was never going to be the final book.

It's the final story...in 50 volumes...with sideways quest novellas...and minor quest pamphlets...

And that will lead into the Vengeful Spirit Series, which is 10-part series (plus side-stories, audio-dramas and a few short-story collections) giving us everything that happened aboard Horus' flagship leading up to the final fight between Horus and the Emperor.

This of course brings us to the Father & Son Trilogy, a trio of novels (with several W+ only short-stories released over the 24 months it will take to release the trilogy) that covers the final battle between the Emperor and Horus.

And, then, the Aftermath Series, a 6-part series (plus two audio-dramas and a W+ animated series of shorts) which deals with the Emperor's internment upon the Golden Throne and the immediate fallout from the Siege of Terra.

Or we're a pair of sarky overthinkers?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Relevant again.

Spoiler:

Isn't that the original Horus and Emperor story that appeared in the ROC book.? Did they really milk to to 8 pages?

So I guess another year at least until we finally get the end of the books.....I guess they have to have time to write the internment story and the start of the scouring, bobby G pushing his new book, the high lords sleezing their way into power, breaking up the legions all that jazz. I mean its not like they are going to wrap up all the loose ends when they can keep flogging them in another series of books. They will never let this cash cow finish.

 Londinium wrote:
The End and the Death? Who is naming these books?

Interesting that they used the word 'Volume' though rather than 'Part', normally you'd use Volume if there's a decent number of books rather than just two. Then again BL may have chosen that word just because it sounds cool.

Or thev want to one up wheel of time whose last book got split in 3

 FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Relevant again.

Spoiler:

Isn't that the original Horus and Emperor story that appeared in the ROC book.? Did they really milk to to 8 pages?

Indeed it is, it was my April Fools posting this year.

I'm inordinately proud of how close my sell sheet came to the real one.

Heh, looks like scalpers didn't get that many of the LE books either. There aren't that many auctions on ebay and I've already had 2 auctions cancelled because they had actually put up the auction before they managed to scalp a book. Good news for actual fans, but less so for me because now I probably can't get this book to complete my series :(.

The most worrying part for me in that joke were not the 8 pages, but that it would be written by King. Don't get me wrong, I like his writing, but I just finished the Macharian Crusade Omnibus and let me tell you. If you thought Steven King or Dan Abnett could not write their way out of a wet paperbag by writing a proper ending, you haven't read that book yet. You couldn't write a functioning ending that is worse, even if you'd try to. If King would write that story, it would go like: "And when Horus was almost about to triumph, the Emperor saw his darkness. Doctor's hate what he did next."

Token senseless rant: I recently sold all my HH and 40K books because I needed space and have switched to ebooks. I just realized that the HH books are only available in French. And while that would tempt me to learn that language, I am rather inclined to wish the person that made the decision not to offer them in english, that they forever find their shoes filled with their dogs leftovers. The frustration!

Anyhow, in case you didn't know yet: News from about 4-6months ago: Gaunt's Ghosts - The Victory Part 2 will be released in December. I hope that means that the new story line kicks of shortly after that.

 GiToRaZor wrote:

Anyhow, in case you didn't know yet: News from about 4-6months ago: Gaunt's Ghosts - The Victory Part 2 will be released in December. I hope that means that the new story line kicks of shortly after that.

Abnett will first have to finish the Siege finale, and he has the third Bequin book due as well. Let him finish what he started before he kicks off a new arc!

Harrow Master is on my to read list.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/09/07/commander-shadowsun-the-alpha-legion-and-the-flesh-tearers-star-in-epic-new-black-library-novels/

Vorbis coming next week:



Also, anniversary edition of Nightbringer:

Nightbringer is Black Library's Skyrim.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Nightbringer is Black Library's Skyrim.

They continue to refuse to patch the bugs?

What does that even mean? I’ve no knowledge of Skyrim.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
What does that even mean? I’ve no knowledge of Skyrim.

Skyrim has been rereleased many many times. So has Nightbringer.

Horus Rising might be a more apt title for this comparison though, it has received several reprints and whenever there is a Humble Bundle, they include either the ebook or audio book as the default option.

I'll be getting the new crime anthology, looks like we're getting more of the characters from bloodlines and flesh and steel which will be ace.

I'm only 1/4 through the wraithbone phoenix atm like so won't it finished before this is out (slow reader and busy with life stuff atm)

Also going through Wraithbone Phoenix right now, after that.. Echoes of Eternity first, then Vorbis.

Still waiting for my copy of Echoes to turn up!

 BrookM wrote:
Horus Rising might be a more apt title for this comparison though, it has received several reprints and whenever there is a Humble Bundle, they include either the ebook or audio book as the default option.

Although there are a lot of repetitions, I've never been disappointed with the new stuff I pick up in a Humble Bundle.

I think I can break even as long as there are at least three books I don't have already.

It would never have happened in Kirby's day!

 laam999 wrote:
I'll be getting the new crime anthology, looks like we're getting more of the characters from bloodlines and flesh and steel which will be ace.

I'm only 1/4 through the wraithbone phoenix atm like so won't it finished before this is out (slow reader and busy with life stuff atm)

Ooh yeah I’d like more from them. Noctis was cool.

I’m sold on the cover some to be fair

I want more Zido myself, I hated Noctis to no end.

Hopefully something more than a rivalry between dynasties with a mix of heresy https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/09/14/get-your-letter-of-marque-and-join-the-ranks-of-the-rogue-traders-in-black-librarys-new-novel/

 BrookM wrote:
I want more Zido myself, I hated Noctis to no end.

g

You didn’t do the audio though did you?
That sold it much more.

I can always be more invested in a weaker book/story/character with a good narrator.
Just gets you more invested.

A rare update has occurred.

October looking strong!

So the Eisenhorn omnibus contains four novels and four short stories. There's the original triology, plus the Magos, which contained a novel and TWELVE short stories. So which shorts make the cut for this book? 'Missing in Action' and 'Backcloth for a Crown Additional' seem a shoe-in since they were in the last omnibus they printed, but that leaves ten others fighting for two slots.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/10/12/kasrkin-the-cadian-elite-are-getting-their-own-novel/