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jadebullet posted:Well, I have decided to do something that is incredibly lame, and probably very stupid, but I am going to do it anyway. I have decided to try my hand at writing Space Barbie fanfiction. I am mainly doing it to get myself back into the swing of writing normal fiction since I am a bit rusty, and I figure it will be fun. Well if you think you're good enough (hahahahah) then Black Library actually have a segment of the year when they take open submissions for short stories and (rarely) novels. Go for it. In a video blog Abnett actually says that BL are trying to move into different types of story, like in Atlas Infernal or 40k's first ever plausible romance in the Night Lords books, so don't be afraid to try something new!
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Mowglis Haircut posted:Well if you think you're good enough (hahahahah) then Black Library actually have a segment of the year when they take open submissions for short stories and (rarely) novels. Go for it. In a video blog Abnett actually says that BL are trying to move into different types of story, like in Atlas Infernal or 40k's first ever plausible romance in the Night Lords books, so don't be afraid to try something new! Clearly, he should do a teen coming-of-age romance/comedy. With orks.
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Cream_Filling posted:Clearly, he should do a teen coming-of-age romance/comedy. With orks. This has been done already. Space Marine by Ian Watson. Sadly, it focuses on the Imperial Fists and not orks.
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Big Willy Style posted:This has been done already. Space Marine by Ian Watson. Sadly, it focuses on the Imperial Fists and not orks. Yeah but that was written in like the 80s. Kids these days like beautiful vampires. So Blood Angels, I guess. Or else madcap hijinks at the Schola Progenium.
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Cream_Filling posted:Or else madcap hijinks at the Schola Progenium. Ciaphas Cain: the early years 
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Cream_Filling posted:Clearly, he should do a teen coming-of-age romance/comedy. With orks. How da WarBoss met 'is Mekboy.
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Now, Black Library has no qualms about blatent plagiarism correct? I mean, Zho got his poo poo published, and it is still promoted despite plagiarism. I think I will write a story about a young Commissar, who's parents are killed by a great and powerful chaos sorcerer but is unable to kill him as a baby due to a failed perils of the warp test. Anyway, he is sent to live with his moisture farming aunt and uncle, who don't treat him too nicely. Then, when he is 10 years old, they administratum realizes they misfiled some paperwork or something, and they forcively send him off to the magical Schola Progenium on planet Bogerts. There, he makes friends, and has zany adventures, all while learning fun abilities like executing cowards. But sinister things are happening in the Warp. The evil sorcerer is gathering strenght, biding his time until he can finally kill the young commissar in training. Why? Because he has demonically mutated OCD. I shall call it, Horatio Pyter. In all seriousness though. I am just writing Space Marine stuff, but I have plans that are interesting and a bit different from the normal "He kicked the ork in the face with his foot hard. Bits of bone flew spirally out of his face and went spiraling away leaving spirals in the dust as they spun... in a spiraling motion. The continued his own spiraling motion with a spiraling roundhouse kick that caused the next ork to spiral to the floor."
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VanSandman posted:How da WarBoss met 'is Mekboy. Odd one out. Memoirs of a Weirdboy. The riveting story of a fungus struggling to fit in among others his age. "A coming of age story for the ages" -NY Post
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jadebullet posted:Fifty Shades a' Red Is that the one where a young, innocent Boy on his first Waaagh meets a seductive, dangerous Chaos Marine named Kharn?
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jadebullet posted:Fifty Shades a' Red The Seven Year WAAAAAAAAUGH! What Wierdboys Want Must Love Squigs
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Ta krump a mockin'squig
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How Gorgutz Got His Gunz Back
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The Southern Dandy posted:How Gorgutz Got His Gunz Back I think we have a winner.
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Something Funny Happened on the Way to the WAAAGH!
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Why are you all even bothering? The Southern Dandy clearly won the thread.Trast posted:Didn't someone in the thread mention seeing Abnett at a signing and say he enjoyed making all of his fanboys cry out in agony?
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So I am wondering if the Abnett quote of "The next time I need a galaxy burned, I'm calling Zho" on Emperor's Mercy is actually a sarcastic comment.
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jadebullet posted:So I am wondering if the Abnett quote of "The next time I need a galaxy burned, I'm calling Zho" on Emperor's Mercy is actually a sarcastic comment. I would bet cash money that they paid him to say that. Though I will say that Blood Gorgons wasn't completely awful (Emperor's Mercy was)
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I'm about halfway through the first novella in Shadows of Treachery. It's quite readable! I think it's John French's first Black Library thing so that's encouraging.
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I'm dimly recalling spending a horrible evening trying to get into the Blood Ravens omnibus by the intrepid CS Goto. Christ that palm-pumping donkey rear end-licking fuckup just pretty much parroted the video game verbatim. I hope you get toe cancer CS Goto. I also spent  on that poo poo just for Blood Ravens fluff. J'accuse, bitch![edit] What's awesome is the dreadnought in Battle of the Fang taking it to Magnus until the chapter master drop-pods on his head. That poo poo was well played. The Southern Dandy fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I'm about halfway through the first novella in Shadows of Treachery. It's quite readable! I think it's John French's first Black Library thing so that's encouraging. Do yourself a favour, as soon as you're done with The crimson fist skip immediately to prince of crows. It's not that it's that the others are bad, it's just that prince of crows is so god drat good  . The Dark King is ok, but I don't know why McNeill was allowed to write a story dealing with t he night lords (as ADB is so good at it). The lightning tower is interesting, as is raven's flight (although it's seemingly just covering ground already trodden). I didn't like death of a silversmith as I didn't see the point of it at all, and I didn't read the kaban project. As I've read about Kaban from the collected visions art book, and mechanicum why does the same story need to be told for a third time?.tl;dr: finish crimson fist, jump straight to prince of crows.
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Pariah is now available as an eBook on the Black Library site. Its on my Kindle waiting to be ravished.
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ed balls balls man posted:Pariah is now available as an eBook on the Black Library site. Its on my Kindle waiting to be ravished. It's the first of a new trilogy, correct?
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rocket_Magnet posted:Do yourself a favour, as soon as you're done with The crimson fist skip immediately to prince of crows. It's not that it's that the others are bad, it's just that prince of crows is so god drat good
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I read Lord of the Night on my plane flight overseas, it was really good. Read it all in 1 sitting. I liked the revelation & how it was played up as 'true...or is it?' which is how the best 40k background is usually handled. The psyker's abilities, the mechanicus guy, the dissimulus/weird inquisition stuff and the necromunda like underhive were all interesting and cool. Jerkface fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Oct 6, 2012 |
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Scoobi posted:I read The Night Haunter on my plane flight overseas, it was really good. Read it all in 1 sitting. I liked the revelation & how it was played up as 'true...or is it?' which is how the best 40k background is usually handled. Lord of the Night, you mean?
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Just finished Legion of the Damned, and wow - it was great and so very  . Between it and the other two Space Marines Battles books I've read, Brotherhood of the Snake and Helsreach, I'd rank it first, then BotS and then Helsreach. I've just started Sander's Atlas Infernal and I'm hoping it holds up as well. I'd also like to recommend that the two Battlefleet Gothic books be added to the Good list in the OP. I thought they were well written and gave a good look into the relatively unexplored Imperial Navy.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:It's the first of a new trilogy, correct? Correct. The Bequin Triolgy. And son of a bitch. I just started the 4th Space Wolf book (Been enjoyable. Not superb but fun). Gonna have to set that sucker aside to dive right in. Glad I saw the post before heading to work.
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Thewittyname posted:Just finished Legion of the Damned, and wow - it was great and so very Does anyone read Hammer & Bolter? I'm curious as to your thoughts on the quality of the stories. When it was still a thing, I used to read Inferno - while the stories weren't spectacular, they were readable and usually halfway decent. H&B seems to be chock full of terrible, terrible stories that border on Internet fan fiction.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Wait - you ranked Helsreach third? Maybe it is because you're new and didn't realize how awesome that book really was... Helsreach is good, but BotS is a great book too and LotD is awesome if the mood and tone of the book clicks with you. Rob Sanders is not as technically gifted an author as ADB, Dan Abnett, or even Chris Wraight, but he does "weird" really, really well. Speaking of Rob Sanders, is Redemption Corps any good? Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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berzerkmonkey posted:Wait - you ranked Helsreach third? Maybe it is because you're new and didn't realize how awesome that book really was... Not just third, but third by a pretty good distance (and actually I've read at least two dozen 40k books - this is not bragging). I like ADB, the Night Lord trilogy was amazing, but for me Helsreach was really, really flat. I blame it mostly on the choice of Black Templars as the protagonists, they were so monotonous. The best part of that book was when the Salamanders showed up. Mechafunkzilla was right about LotD, it oozes atmosphere and Sanders knows how to make bolter porn exciting again. I really appreciated how he took the whole thing to an 11 at the end by making the Legion a literal ghost army one-shotting demons and chaos comets instead of the canonical "rag-tag, slowly dying group of cast-off Space Marines." I do admit this makes me hypocritical because I got so tired of the deus ex machina endings in most of the Gaunt series.
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Thewittyname posted:Not just third, but third by a pretty good distance (and actually I've read at least two dozen 40k books - this is not bragging).
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