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I think you're supposed to read the Ravenor trilogy first. That's what I'm doing right now.
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Oh yeah, I've done the Ravenor and Eisenhorn trilogies, though none of the ones from the Bequin trilogy (?) that have been released afterwards. /edit: Damnit, now I'm torn between Lords of Silence and Magos. Magos is twice the length for :tenbux:, so I'm getting more "driving time" out of it, but I really wanted to read Lords of Silence as an ebook Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Honestly, if you have a passing knowledge of Ravenor and Eisenhorn, you'd be ok with Magos. I thought Magos was alright - I had heard and enjoyed most, if not all, of the shorts before, and the novella was serviceable, but I didn't think it was great. I liked where it started off being kind of a spooky ghost story, but I thought the second half was a bit too long and drawn out.
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If you're looking for Audiobook recs, 'Betrayer' definitely was a fantastic listen. They captured the voice of the Word Bearers and the World Eaters perfectly, it was clear and easy to follow, and the story is one of their best.
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Just got back home, went through about two and a half hours of Magos, and it's all short stories so far? Two of which (Master Imus' Transgression, and Regia Occulta) that I had already heard, no less. So I looked it up on Lexicanum and, sure enough, it's all short stories: Pestilence Master Imus's Transgression Regia Occulta Missing in Action Backcloth for a Crown Additional The Strange Demise of Titus Endor The Curiosity Playing Patience Thorn Wishes Talon Gardens of Tycho The Keeler Image Perihelion The Magos Is the last one at least a "feature length" novel, or just another, possibly longer, short story to finish it all up. At least the audio length is kinda giving me hopes that it is, because I was done with the first four and half of the fifth in two and a half hours, and since its overall length is listed as twenty hours, I'm hoping it's at least 10-12 hours or something.
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The magos is a full length novel, yes, at least by the standards of the rest of the series or gaunt's ghosts, which are all short-ish.
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Most of the short stories are also relevant to the novel at the end in small but fairly concrete ways.
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I was super sceptic of The Magos when it was initially released because of the length question and waited ages before deciding to pick it up, however I'd fully recommend it as I thoroughly enjoyed it (all of it) on my recent re-read of the series. Definitely worth buying.
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It's really obvious when you have the books side by side just how long Magos is.
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Not sure if this is the right place but a friend of mine recently won the ‘win the black library’ competition and has 400ish black library books sitting around that he doesn’t want. It was an automatic prize draw he was entered into when he ordered something online. Any ideas on the best way to sell them? Do you think anyone would be interested in buying the whole thing as a lot at a big discount? He’s in the UK.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Is the last one at least a "feature length" novel, or just another, possibly longer, short story to finish it all up. Estimating off of my Kindle copy, the actual Magos novel is roughly 300-325 pages long Khizan fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Dec 30, 2018 |
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krakagar posted:Not sure if this is the right place but a friend of mine recently won the ‘win the black library’ competition and has 400ish black library books sitting around that he doesn’t want. It was an automatic prize draw he was entered into when he ordered something online. I would post them all on Amazon. But first I would post an itemized list here tell us that shipping isn't included and asked for a you know whatever is going to make him happy to get for each and every book cuz I'm sure we would all take a bunch of them off with his hands Tell him you weren't internet friends want dibs
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krakagar posted:Not sure if this is the right place but a friend of mine recently won the ‘win the black library’ competition and has 400ish black library books sitting around that he doesn’t want. It was an automatic prize draw he was entered into when he ordered something online. I know a lot of black library books are out of print. I am sure there are people here who would be interested in some of them if we could get a complete list?
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God dammit, I wish BL would sort out their Audiobook poo poo. I thought they had, release the book, release the audio version. But no it seems they've gone back to playing bullshit games. Not a clue given of when they're planning to release the Audiobook version of Titandeath. Which I'm admitting is an assumption that they're going to release one, but based on the fact that they did for the previous 50+ novels, I'm gonna go ahead and assume they are. They seem to have slipped back into playing stupid schedule games since Dark Imperium (the first one) got released, which also got a random delay. I wouldn't mind but they seem completly unable to communicate their audiobook schedule, either on their own site or Audible. Stuff just randomly drops. 'Coming soon' on Audible for any other publisher will tell you accurately what's coming down the line months in advance. For black library it's  . How are they still so bad at this.
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Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. I know there was the rumor that AdMech was worshipping one of the C’tan trapped on Mars and didn’t realize it, but I don’t know if that’s still true in the current fluff.
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Xenomrph posted:Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. Isn't this the plot of mechanicum? Like the dragon gets a new guardian
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Waroduce posted:Isn't this the plot of mechanicum? Like the dragon gets a new guardian 98% of that book is just techpriests scheming against other techpriests for nebulous reasons.
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PantsOptional posted:I’m playing a Skitarii Alpha in an RPG session tomorrow that promises to be a Very Special Holiday Edition. Are there any Mechanicus holidays that we know of? If not I may default to Cogzaa. Patch Tuesday.
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PantsOptional posted:I’m playing a Skitarii Alpha in an RPG session tomorrow that promises to be a Very Special Holiday Edition. Are there any Mechanicus holidays that we know of? If not I may default to Cogzaa. Read only Friday
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PantsOptional posted:I’m playing a Skitarii Alpha in an RPG session tomorrow that promises to be a Very Special Holiday Edition. Are there any Mechanicus holidays that we know of? If not I may default to Cogzaa. RAMadan
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Xenomrph posted:Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. No single book off the top of my head but they generally think they and their ruins are super neat so necrons are a huge focus for ad mech expeditions. Basically 9 times out of ten when a tomb world wakes up its because the admech are poking around stealing whatever is not nailed down. That one caphias cain book on the ice world is an example and uh there were several short stories including the one where a tomb lord or whatever disguises himself as a magos to slowly murder the expedition off.
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Xenomrph posted:Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. "OOooooooohhhhhh shiny buttons... What happens when I press them at random?" After a point, you would think that the Imperium's first reaction to the Adeptus Mechanicus sending out more expeditions would be "Okay, we're going to put the Inquisition on speed dial, three chapters of Space Marines are going with you AND we're going to have a battle fleet check in with you every second day." That being said, considering the whole "Void Dragon may actually be THE Omnissiah" and how often tomb worlds in VERY remote locations ("We just happened to look in this one specific asteroid that was once part of a planet in a system who's sun burned out before humanity was past the "Poking things with sharp sticks and wearing furs" stage and we found a tomb world! What are the chances?") waking up is directly due to the Adeptus Mechanicus, I'm wondering if the idea behind it is supposed to be the Void Dragon may be intentionally leading/guiding them there to speed up their awakening.
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Deptfordx posted:God dammit, I wish BL would sort out their Audiobook poo poo. Meanwhile I wish they could sort out their physical book releases because a whole bunch of books I want to read aren't released according to my usual non-BL retailer. So far I'm waiting for the new Ciaphas Cain book and Blackthorn: First Mark. Not to mention their decision have the Varanguard book and the new IG book the announced last week as an ebook exclusive for three months. Black Library is the last bastion of really dumb GW decisions is the getting from this stupidity.
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DirtyRobot posted:Most of the short stories are also relevant to the novel at the end in small but fairly concrete ways. I'm two stories away from The Magos by now I think, and now I'm intrigued as to how they're gonna tie in. Also, I'm digging Toby Longworth, I already liked his bits in the Garro collection, but he's narrating this entire Magos collection by himself, and it doesn't get dull. Two things, though: a) Eisenhorns dystaff are apparently all from New York with one exception b) Good lord, his rendition of Patience's voice is awkward, he makes her sound like a gnome
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Xenomrph posted:Have any books/stories explored what Adeptus Mechanicus thinks of Necrons? Like, they’re living, sentient machines, you’d think AdMech would have an opinion about them. It's not really a book but the Mechanicus game is all about techpriests poking a necron tomb world with a sharp stick. It's supposedly a lot like XCOM in gameplay but I've never played XCOM so I can't really compare. I'm having fun though, and the writing seems alright? 
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm two stories away from The Magos by now I think, and now I'm intrigued as to how they're gonna tie in. Yeah, Longworth is really good for Eisenhorn. He's got that gravely gumshoe voice down pat. And I agree that Patience is terrible. I honestly don't know what he was talking with that one.
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Xun posted:It's not really a book but the Mechanicus game is all about techpriests poking a necron tomb world with a sharp stick. It's supposedly a lot like XCOM in gameplay but I've never played XCOM so I can't really compare. I'm having fun though, and the writing seems alright? It's really good. It's similar but not entirely identical to X-COM, and the power curve is slightly out of whack. You have a bunch of Tech Priests who follow you from mission to mission, and are upgradeable with various weapons, mechadendrites, backpacks, special abilities. In addition, you have mooks which you tag along as your meatshields - these are the Skitarii, Kataphrons, Kastelans and Servitors. These guys can get upgraded as part of mission rewards, but they're essentially expendable. Unlike X-COM you don't have any action points, so as long as you have CP ('Cognition Points') to spend, you can trigger everything all your tech priests have loaded on them. Towards the end of the game your tech priests gain so many abilities that it's entirely possible to send one forward, chain buffs and set fire to half the map. The writing is pretty good - it's written by Ben Counter so while not exactly War and Peace, it's still far and above what you would expect of a game at this price point. You have a committee of archmagi sitting on the battleship directing the team's actions, and all the usual tropes are pretty well represented. There's the Stygies magos who's all about Xenos Tech-Acquisiton = Good, You = Stupid, the Metalican grandpa who quotes random scripture and insists on burning everything, the Skitarii leader who worries about her troops etc.
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The bit at 00:36 is badass. Can't wait to see what his next series will look like now that's he's got official GW backing.
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Games Workshop next feature animated movie, Soul Drinkers by Ben Counter.
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