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I've just finished reading Salvation's Reach again. I am more and more convinced that it is not the work of Dan Abnett. Don't get me wrong, it is a very good book. It is in his style and it fooled me for the first two read-throughs I did. I have my doubts about Blood Pact too although I may be reaching a bit there. But some of the stuff in Salvation's Reach is just not his words. The thing that got me thinking was this sudden, upbiqitous, unexplained use of the word 'lasman'. I mean great, it is obviously drawn from the British Army 'rifleman' and if he'd have used in throughout the Gaunt books or introduced it somewhere and briefly explained in the story why everyone is now using the phrase then I would have bought that. But nothing. 13 books - no mention and then book 14 about 5-6 characters use it as if it is a natural phrase.

There, that's my starter for 10 - what does everyone else think?

Grah

   
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To be fair it's not the first discrepancy in the series. Just look at the snipers. About midway through the series they went from multi shot to single shot. The books have been strung out over a long time and his style has shifted.

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New Hampshire, USA

Probably wanted to use "guardsmen" and an editor told him there's no such thing as imperial guard any more. So he went with what you suggested and combined rifleman and lasman.

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 DeffDred wrote:
Probably wanted to use "guardsmen" and an editor told him there's no such thing as imperial guard any more. So he went with what you suggested and combined rifleman and lasman.


except there are guardsmen, Astramillitarium is simply the high gothic name

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I'd go with the fact he's been writing them for over a decade and just decided to use a new word this time.

Please excuse any spelling errors. I use a tablet frequently and software keyboards are a pain!

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