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Waroduce posted:Any good recent Ham books apart from MoM? I'm more into the classics, like Green Eggs and Ham, or Bukowski's Ham on Rye.
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Waroduce posted:Any good recent Ham books apart from MoM? Kharn: Eater of Worlds was good.
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So after reading a bunch of 40k books it seems that a common theme is that the forces of chaos are meritocratic and the forces of order, like the imperium, are stratified without a lot of social mobility. Do you think that means that any meritocratic governments are inevitably doomed to falling to chaos (or at least more susceptible to it)? Like, if there was a governor of some agriculture world who had an agreement with the local head of the administratum that only successful and proven farmers would be promoted into supervisory roles planetside, does that mean that everyone in a generation or two would be running around with 15 fingers and 12 eyeballs?
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A meritocracy in that situation could also result in a resentful peasant class leading an uprising against the abusive government, getting "help" from some nice fellows with spikes and swirls.
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A human heart posted:I'm more into the classics, like Green Eggs and Ham, or Bukowski's Ham on Rye. Please stay on topic, this is the Black Library thread.
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The Imperium is a meritocracy. Those in power define merit, and funnily enough "merit" is what "people like me" have, so the system self-perpetuates forever. Of course this relies on people knowing that meritocracy is a term that originated in a satirical work describing a system similar to above, so gently caress 40k fans ever working out that all systems define themselves as meritocracies and just disagree on what is meritorious. The theme is actually that violent revolution against an oligarchy merely produces different oligarchs and the proletariat will be worse off afterwards, specifically swapping one theocracy for another in this case to hammer home the futility of both sides in the conflict. Grim. Fukken. Dark.
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CestMoi posted:Just started reading Derek Walcott, managed to find a Kindle version of Omeros, which has been on my list for a while, just read the first page and I'm immediately hooked! It was brilliant of him to transpose the Horus Heresy onto a lover's rivalry on a Caribbean island. But I'm still not sure who Philoctete was supposed to symbolize...maybe Guilliman? They both got poisoned.
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I just searched for "eisenhorn" in the Kindle store and got a bunch of gay porn. I guess Black Library stuff isn't available for Kindle? https://imgur.com/8OQLTAR NeurosisHead fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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They've recently started making BL e-books available on Amazon in the EU, but if you're located elsewhere you're stuck having to buy them directly from their website for the time being.
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NeurosisHead posted:I just searched for "eisenhorn" in the Kindle store and got a bunch of gay porn. I guess Black Library stuff isn't available for Kindle? https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/30/black-library-now-on-kindle/
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NeurosisHead posted:I just searched for "eisenhorn" in the Kindle store and got a bunch of gay porn. I guess Black Library stuff isn't available for Kindle? I'm so glad that this happened to someone else and not just me 
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Just checked, they're definitely available on Kindle UK now. Now that the management increasingly seem to be prepared to acknowledge it's 2016/17, I wonder how long they're going to hold out on Audible.
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Dog_Meat posted:I'm so glad that this happened to someone else and not just me True transhuman homoeroticism.
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NeurosisHead posted:I just searched for "eisenhorn" in the Kindle store and got a bunch of gay porn. I guess Black Library stuff isn't available for Kindle? What do you have against gay porn?
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Only that it isn't the pulpy sci-fi novel I was looking for
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NeurosisHead posted:I just searched for "eisenhorn" in the Kindle store and got a bunch of gay porn. I guess Black Library stuff isn't available for Kindle? A good time, is what the gently caress that is.
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POUNDED IN THE BUTT by THE EMPEROR'S FURY
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Endman posted:POUNDED IN THE BUTT by THE EMPEROR'S FURY But enough about Ian Watson's Space Marine...
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I would not be surprised if Chuck Tingle was really Ian Watson's new pseudonym.
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Gavin Rockhard is a great name
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Endman posted:I would not be surprised if Chuck Tingle was really Ian Watson's new pseudonym. He actually does write erotica now.
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SRM posted:He actually does write erotica now. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8163165-orgasmachine
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Why did I look that up on Google Books. Although at least it reaffirmed my belief that the guy on the cover is simply, yet violently, scratching his head in utter bewilderment and consternation.
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In other news, I feel there's a certain irony in wearing a black library bag while visiting St. Peter's Basilica in the Holy See. 
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Cadia is just about to fall when out of nowhere Ghazghkull Thraka teleports in, punches out Abaddon then inexplicably leaves the battle.
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Deptfordx posted:Cadia is just about to fall when out of nowhere Ghazghkull Thraka teleports in, punches out Abaddon then inexplicably leaves the battle. This makes sense, really.
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Deptfordx posted:Cadia is just about to fall when out of nowhere Ghazghkull Thraka teleports in, punches out Abaddon then inexplicably leaves the battle. Usarkar Creed greateast plan.
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Deptfordx posted:Cadia is just about to fall when out of nowhere Ghazghkull Thraka teleports in, punches out Abaddon then inexplicably leaves the battle.
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I just realized that Yarrick is like a reversed doctor klaw. "I'll get you next time, Thraka! Next time!"
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Arcsquad12 posted:I just realized that Yarrick is like a reversed doctor klaw. 
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Ben Counter is a hack!
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:It looks like i might get to play my first game of kill team (not HoR nerd
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You've gone mad, mate.
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Waroduce posted:Any good recent Ham book from MoM? Just read Red Tithe. It's pretty good. Night Lords vs Charcardons (the old Space Sharks now given a less stupid name) fighting over a prison world. It's basically a 'Space Marines Battle' book, but it's the best one of those I've read for ages. I especially liked the reason for the fighting. Night lords want to steal the prisoners for maximum torture fun plus finding dangerous enough killers for their cultist troops. Charcaradons want to steal the prisoners for maximum expendable serfs plus dangerous enough killers to make into more Astartes. Which is an entertaing change of pace from 'The noble Space Marines come to the rescue'. Bonus point for remembering the Omophagea is a thing. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Any updates on when the US kindle store goes live?
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...the next black legion book is on amazon....for aug 2017
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Fellblade posted:Is the first one out in soft back yet? Yeah, just recently. Grab it now, because it'll be out of print by the time the next one comes out.
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