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Whoever it was the recommended Baneblade deserves a beer. That and Shadowsword were some of my favorite 40k books.
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Pendent posted:Whoever it was the recommended Baneblade deserves a beer. That and Shadowsword were some of my favorite 40k books. That might have been me? I know I've recommended it a couple of times. I love the factory description at the beginning of Baneblade. It take one of the top spots in my "accurate description of the insanity of the 40K universe." There are a couple of short stories related to the Baneblade crew as well, in case you haven't read them: "Iron Harvest" and "Stormlord."
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Feb 22, 2018 15:10
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:What is a soul, in Warhammer terms, and who has defined their properties? I always took it as rhetoric and metaphors rather than them truly 'not having a soul'. Rather, I take that to mean 'not having/having a weak warp presence', which confounds the senses of weak psykers. It could be that the demon bathed him in enough warp stuff to corrupt him thus giving him a soul 
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Feb 22, 2018 17:55
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berzerkmonkey posted:That might have been me? I know I've recommended it a couple of times. I love the factory description at the beginning of Baneblade. It take one of the top spots in my "accurate description of the insanity of the 40K universe." I too have been praising that book ITT. The sequel is good too. Didn't know about the short stories however, are they some ebook exclusive thing?
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Feb 22, 2018 18:44
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I already knew all the information here, obviously, but if anyone wants to read the 40k books chronologically here you go https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4671/40422424601_3cdd8d7fa8_o.jpg
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Feb 22, 2018 21:35
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Christ that’s a lot of books. Edit— at this stage are there more 40k books than Star Wars books? I think there might be.
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Feb 22, 2018 21:38
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Xenomrph posted:Christ that’s a lot of books. Quick/probably wrong internet research indicates 390 Star Wars novels, as opposed to the ~600 Black Library novels (this would include all their settings, not just 40k). So, if not more, pretty loving close.
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Feb 22, 2018 22:11
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390 Star Wars novels sounds way, way high unless they’re counting, like, children’s books, YA stuff, etc. And this is me speaking as a former Star Wars turbonerd who read every EU novel I could get my hands on, up until the end of the New Jedi Order series.
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Feb 22, 2018 22:18
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If it makes everyone feel better, 90% of the Warhammer books are skip-able trash.
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Feb 22, 2018 23:02
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390 books before you count guidebooks, kids books activity books and all other forms of media that Star Wars has ingrained themselves into.
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Feb 23, 2018 00:10
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Xenomrph posted:390 Star Wars novels sounds way, way high unless they’re counting, like, children’s books, YA stuff, etc. One of the characters does a sex! 
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Feb 23, 2018 01:08
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Arquinsiel posted:It's got a psychic laser in it that stores up the dead psykers that it killed, and then it fires out bits of soul at people. I agree, but the Culexus first appeared in Codex: Assassins which was iirc a 3rd ed book. Edit: I am wrong, forgive me. Camrath fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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Feb 23, 2018 01:12
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Arquinsiel posted:The split between the YA and "adult" line is simultaneously more and less distinct these days. The adult books are standard Star Wars fare, but the YA stuff would get parents up in arms if they realised what their kids were reading. It would be a pretty poo poo YA book if it didn't have that.
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Feb 23, 2018 01:18
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Ciaphas Cain is the best. Reading the first omnibus and it's exactly what I want to see in this setting. Best imperial perspective ever.
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Syncopated posted:It would be a pretty poo poo YA book if it didn't have that. Star Wars' EU is astonishingly sex-less. It took a long time for any of the books to refer to it at all - otherwise it was all "characters get married, later show up with two kids, end of story."
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Syncopated posted:It would be a pretty poo poo YA book if it didn't have that. A part of me really wants to see what YA Black Library would look like. Probably a lot like Ciaphas Cain, honestly, but if that's the case then bring it on.
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Cythereal posted:Star Wars' EU is astonishingly sex-less. It took a long time for any of the books to refer to it at all - otherwise it was all "characters get married, later show up with two kids, end of story." But when they did get sex they went full on child molestation. Troy Denning is loving scum.
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Arquinsiel posted:The split between the YA and "adult" line is simultaneously more and less distinct these days. The adult books are standard Star Wars fare, but the YA stuff would get parents up in arms if they realised what their kids were reading. Flowers in the Attic was a huge YA success like 50 years ago.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Flowers in the Attic was a huge YA success like 50 years ago.
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Arcsquad12 posted:But when they did get sex they went full on child molestation. Troy Denning is loving scum. Whoa, what?
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Feb 23, 2018 06:52
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Xenomrph posted:Whoa, what? A thirty year old woman molests Luke Skywalker's fourteen year old son while strapping him down to a torture chair.
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Feb 23, 2018 07:14
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Groetgaffel posted:I too have been praising that book ITT. Yeah, 90% of the time the shorts are ebooks only. At some point they sometimes get around to adding them to an omnibus or a short story collection. Arcsquad12 posted:A thirty year old woman molests Luke Skywalker's fourteen year old son while strapping him down to a torture chair. berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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Feb 23, 2018 15:00
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Starting Ravenor. I thought I had started it after finishing the Eisenhorn books and shorts but I must not have.
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New Eisenhorn (Magos) is out. Ebook in 2 days.
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Feb 23, 2018 15:51
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Is it a collection of old stories or a new book?
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Feb 23, 2018 15:57
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euphronius posted:Is it a collection of old stories or a new book? The Amazon description says it's a new novel and a collection of the existing short stories: "The Magos is the brand new, full-length fourth novel in the hugely popular Eisenhorn series. This paperback edition also includes the definitive casebook of Gregor Eisenhorn, collecting together all twelve of Dan Abnett’s Inquisition short stories, several of which have never been in print before. These additional stories have been compiled by the author to act as an essential prologue to this long-awaited new novel, while also serving as an indispensable companion to the original Eisenhorn trilogy."
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Feb 23, 2018 16:06
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Arcsquad12 posted:A thirty year old woman molests Luke Skywalker's fourteen year old son while strapping him down to a torture chair. Yikes. That must have been after I jumped ship with the Star Wars EU, I don’t think Luke’s kid was much older than a newborn in the New Jedi Order.
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Feb 23, 2018 16:25
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McCoy Pauley posted:The Amazon description says it's a new novel and a collection of the existing short stories: I don't feel like I'm getting a straight answer out of this. Is it just another one of their anthology books that has a scene framing mechanism that helps link otherwise unrelated stories together?
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Feb 23, 2018 16:39
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berzerkmonkey posted:
Absolutely True. Invincible is one of the worst Star Wars books ever written, and the sexual assault and gratuitous torture porn is a big part of it.
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The first line says it’s a full length novel, and then it’s accompanied by a bunch of short stories that act as prelude material to said novel. I didn’t even know we were getting a new Eisenhorn novel until, like, last week. I was in my local GW store and the GM was talking about how this Saturday is Black Library’s 20th anniversary so they’ll have signed copies of the new book, a new Eisenhorn miniature (with gameplay stats), stuff they’ll be giving away, and it’ll generally be a party. I like supporting my local GW nerd store, and the GM is a genuinely cool dude, and he makes a bit of a frowny sad face when I buy Warhammer stuff from anywhere other than GW, but Magos is on sale for $6 under retail at Amazon versus the full retail I’d pay in the GW shop. An Eisenhorn mini sounds cool too but something tells me the full retail price will make me balk a little bit, too.
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Feb 23, 2018 16:54
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I kind if want the mini, but not enough to actually go get it and pay GW prices really.
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Feb 23, 2018 17:42
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I’ve got the old Ciaphas Cain mini, it’s funny how self-aware it is once you realize it’s depicting a propaganda moment. Cain is holding the wrong gun (just as he does on the cover of every Cain book) and behind the mound of alien heads he’s standing on is a step stool - it’s all faked and deliberately posed for propaganda purposes.
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Feb 23, 2018 17:53
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Interesting. The list of stories includes a couple I read back in the day that aren't about the Inquisition at all. Pestilence is about a disease specialist of some kind interviewing a crippled Guard colonel at an insane asylum for soldiers to get to the bottom of a plague. And the other is about a Magos Biologis being drawn into an investigation into a mysterious animal killing people. They're neat stories but unrelated to Eisenhorn. I wonder if their inclusion would indicate the characters will show up in The Magos.
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Or he's pulling a Tom Clancy and it'll all mesh in as data flows back up the chain and gets to
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I went back and looked at the stories. He actually wrote a couple of stories about Magos Drusher, the Magos Biologis who gets reluctantly dragged into weird wildlife matters. Also one of the Skoh hunter dynasty as featured in Ravenor is in one. They're billed as 'A Magos Drusher story' which indicates they might have become a longer term thing at one point. After all at the start BL were mainly doing short stories and then working the real hits up into full series, like Gotrek and Felix and Gaunt's Ghosts. Maybe Magos Drusher is The Magos that the title refers to? I hope so. He's a fun character with pretty sympathetic backstory (quiet animal expert nerd who always gets dunked on, but secretly likes the thrill of new investigations, and definitely is not a fighter).
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Feb 23, 2018 20:52
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The gap betwen the Gotrek and Felix and Ghosts books was non-trivial though. He says, a much longer time later...
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Pendent posted:Whoever it was the recommended Baneblade deserves a beer. That and Shadowsword were some of my favorite 40k books. Well, poo poo. I almost bought that today but went with that Space Sharks vs Night Lords book instead. I'll get Baneblade next.
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Feb 24, 2018 05:33
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CaptainAttitude posted:Well, poo poo. I almost bought that today but went with that Space Sharks vs Night Lords book instead. I'll get Baneblade next. In all fairness, 'Red Tithe' is pretty fun too.
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Finished Hero of the Imperium. That was frakking amazing. I'll leave Defender of the Imperium for later, don't want to get fatigued on Cain. Before I jump into Ravenor I think I'm going to re-read Eisenhorn since it's been a long time and I've forgotten most of it already.
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