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D-Pad posted:Abnett's in the hospital with a ruptured appendix so please make sacrifices to your preferred chaos god. Dammit we really can't lose him. Today I finished The First Heretic! Really pretty good, the occasional bit of rough prose aside. ADB has a knack for making people who do despicable things sympathetic regardless.
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Cooked Auto posted:One of the stories in Beasts in Velvet is great because its a vampire story where the vampire isn't really the main threat or character.
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Aug 7, 2020 00:19
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Finished Clonelord and started on Manflayer and at the end of Clonelord Bile gets the web way map to Commorragh but in Manflayer's second chapter Bile says he already went there and came back. Did I miss a short story or codex/supplement or is it something Manflayer goes over eventually?
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Aug 7, 2020 03:02
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Cooked Auto posted:Speaking of Darkblade, one of those books are up for Reader's Choice vote on the WarCom page: Fire Caste is real good, I can't possibly talk up Peter Fehervari's writing enough. He's one of my new favs, up there with Wraight, ABD and Abnett
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Aug 7, 2020 03:34
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Reminder that the first Warhammer Crime novel, and by Chris Wraight no less, is out tomorrow. 12am ET on amazon. Pre-order for avenging son (and LE) will be up tomorrow on GW site.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:17
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Pre-ordered! H Y P E F O R C R I M E Y P E F O R C R I M E
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Aug 8, 2020 00:15
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euphronius posted:Abnett famously wrote Guardians of the Galaxy which you may have heard of Sadly, the Guardians novel Steal the Galaxy is unreadable. I blame Disney somehow.
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Aug 8, 2020 04:04
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A little ways into the new crime novel and I think it's gonna be a big hit around here. It's basically Blade Runner 40k with a little Judge Dredd sprinkled in. I always hear people asking for stuff that shows the more common man of the Imperium and this is definitely it. I am not very far I and already got more detail about how the citizens live from the hive nobles to the gutter trash than I can ever remember getting in any one book before. Whether it is good I don't know yet, although it is Chris Wraight, but I can already recommend it as a fresh bit of lore and no bolter porn space marine action hero.
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Aug 8, 2020 07:21
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Just read Sandy Mitchell's two Dark Heresy books, they're not quite as great as his Ciaphis Cain novels, but still drat good in my opinion. He's really good at populating a ridiculous setting with people that seems realistic and organic to the setting. A real shame that the Trilogy won't be finished.
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Aug 8, 2020 14:42
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Thank you for the fantasy recommendations!
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Aug 8, 2020 14:49
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Charlz Guybon posted:Just read Sandy Mitchell's two Dark Heresy books, they're not quite as great as his Ciaphis Cain novels, but still drat good in my opinion. He's really good at populating a ridiculous setting with people that seems realistic and organic to the setting. A real shame that the Trilogy won't be finished. 
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Aug 8, 2020 21:35
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Which book depicts the assassination of Curze, and is it worth reading? I've read dozens of novels and none have explained much about the Officio Assassinorum.
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Aug 9, 2020 01:30
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It's in one of the Night Lords books. Yes read it. Or maybe just the direct aftermath it's been a while. As for assassin books Rath's short Divine Sanction was good and grand master Fadix turns up in Regent's Shadow.
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Aug 9, 2020 01:56
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Man Regent's Shadow was so good Extract Fadix
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Biplane posted:Man Regent's Shadow was so good Extract Fadix I also absolutely love his reasoning for why he picked the side he did.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Which book depicts the assassination of Curze, and is it worth reading? I've read dozens of novels and none have explained much about the Officio Assassinorum. Void Stalker has the immediate aftermath with M'shen fleeing the scene, but not the act itself.
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BL announced:quote:This week will see Black Library fans get their first glimpse at the next Horus Heresy Character Series book, focusing on a shadowy figure who sought to bring order to his homeworld at any cost. We’ll reveal just who we’re talking about later this week… The HH character series started with the Valdor book. I am hoping this one is Malcador. Could be Sevetar. We'll see.
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quote:focusing on a shadowy figure who sought to bring order to his homeworld at any cost Gotta be Sevatar and Nostromo.
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So, unfunny memes about multilasers and (slightly funnier) ones about being "considered harmful" aside, is Goto's Eldar Prophecy at all even readable-good? I'm looking for anything involving the Calixis Sector and the involved craftworld (Kaelor) is the Calixis craftworld?
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Aug 10, 2020 23:44
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It is quite possibly one of the worst things I have ever read.
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Aug 11, 2020 00:21
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Arquinsiel posted:It is quite possibly one of the worst things I have ever read. Coming from someone who has read many of my posts, this is dire indeed. 
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Aug 11, 2020 00:32
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Wonder what he's up to nowadays. His literary career basically spanned about three years if you discount translations. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?C._S._Goto
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Aug 11, 2020 00:37
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Night Lords came in will post pics tomorrow. very high quality, beautifully done a friend of mine saw me post and asked for an introduction to the setting, but the catch he is a mechanic and listens while he works on bikes and poo poo. What is generally a good starting point but also has an audiobook quality of above hot garbage? Eisenhorn still? Gaunts Ghosts? I don't want to start him with Night Lords just cause he won't appreciate it and doesn't have any framing even though they really do stand alone well.
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Aug 11, 2020 02:41
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Waroduce posted:Night Lords came in will post pics tomorrow. very high quality, beautifully done Helsreach. The audiobook is great.
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Aug 11, 2020 03:36
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The Rat posted:Helsreach. The audiobook is great. You can get samples on YouTube with some loser's animation attached  No seriously, there's a really well-animated adaption of the audiobook on YouTube. The audio is official, the animation is fan-made - but GW hired him to do a series on the Blood Angels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUplioG2DC4
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Just finished Bloodlines and are we to assume that the main character is in a genestealer cult? He’s in a group that worships a weird snake aspect of the emperor and he has a scar across his chest that he doesn’t remember getting. There’s exactly one mention of genestealers in the book. If that’s the case, his daughter would have hidden mutations of some kind, right?
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Aug 11, 2020 07:02
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mllaneza posted:You can get samples on YouTube with some loser's animation attached Everything between Grimaldus and Princeps Majoris Zarha is SUPERB.
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Aug 11, 2020 10:40
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von Metternich posted:Just finished Bloodlines and are we to assume that the main character is in a genestealer cult? He’s in a group that worships a weird snake aspect of the emperor and he has a scar across his chest that he doesn’t remember getting. There’s exactly one mention of genestealers in the book. If that’s the case, his daughter would have hidden mutations of some kind, right? This is what I assumed. I thought it was a really cool addition. This is going to be a series so I imagine it will be something dealt with in future books. This city has a lot of bad things going on.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Fire Caste is real good, I can't possibly talk up Peter Fehervari's writing enough. He's one of my new favs, up there with Wraight, ABD and Abnett Fehervari's real good. His books are genuinely nightmarish: no individual or institution can ever be fully trusted; no situation is ever quite what it seems, characters are whirled along powerless to direct the torrent of events and the dream logic that connects everything together perpetually hangs just out of reach. It's good 40k.
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What did I blink and miss in Eisenhorn book 1 between him getting injured on Gudrun and then suddenly they're on another planet where people are speaking old English (gothic)? Are they just looking into learning about the Pontius? Seriously I got a work call and missed a few minutes of the audiobook and now I'm on another planet. I just kept listening figuring I'd catch up but nah. Oh wait did commodore Voke tell him to split off and look for more of the Glaw folks on another planet?
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:What did I blink and miss in Eisenhorn book 1 between him getting injured on Gudrun and then suddenly they're on another planet where people are speaking old English (gothic)? Are they just looking into learning about the Pontius? Seriously I got a work call and missed a few minutes of the audiobook and now I'm on another planet. I just kept listening figuring I'd catch up but nah. No. The Ecclesiarch who was a guest / friend of the Glaws was involved with a missionary order on Damask that the family was sponsoring. It's mentioned twice, once during dinner and once by Eisenhorn as he ponders his next step, and both times only in passing so I imagine it would be super easy to miss it in an audiobook
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Ohhh. Yeah I absolutely did miss that. The book's fantastic though.
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Finished Anarch. So....spoilers Is this the last GG book? Feels like a pretty big finale. Also, dammit I knew Dalin was falling for Merity and dammit WOE MACHINE fucks. Also, I mean, since Mabbon defected to the Imps to stop the eagle stones from being used, and they are shown to be able to be damaged, why didn't he just say they were chaos objects of huge importance and must be destroyed? Also called it on Mkoll ganking Sek, and gently caress yeah it was awesome. Also yay Brin's back! All in all a great book. Abnett really needs to write more straight up horror books cause that was aces.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:56
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Its not the end but if it were to stop there it is a good conclusion. gently caress Meryn.
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Aug 12, 2020 01:20
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Speaking of, is the condition of Abnett in re: he appendectomy known?
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Aug 12, 2020 01:22
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I'm still not really convinced Aongus Brostin is dead. It just seemed like such a stupid way to go out, even taking into account how much Abnett likes the whole "sometimes in war people die senseless deaths" thing.
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Aug 12, 2020 01:58
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Brostin is definitely alive. Meryn is definitely very very dead. Also Jessi
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Aug 12, 2020 02:18
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I can't believe that Corvus Corax's last recorded words are "Never more". 
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Aug 12, 2020 07:01
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I can't believe that Corvus Corax's last recorded words are "Never more". I don't know if its self aware and bad, or so dumb it becomes genius, but it brings joy to my life every time i think about it.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I can't believe that Corvus Corax's last recorded words are "Never more". I think technically his last words, that we know about, are in that short story where he becomes a Vengance shadow demon and fucks up lorgar. But yeah, it’s pretty stupid
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