Black Griffon posted:

Yeah I imagine Calibre would be able to handle it. I'll check it out, cheers!

Black Griffon posted:

I think I've reached the "hey uh buddy" stage of my reading as I'm listening to Mortis

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

hey uh buddy stop listening to books that will give you literal brain damage

Biplane posted:

Big reveal for part 3 DO NOT READ: Horus gets a hair transplant

Black Griffon posted:

I think that getting through the entire heresy and choosing to skip a book for the first time within sight of the finish line would give my intricately designed idiot brain even more brain damage tbh

Pron on VHS posted:

Finished Pariah. Am I to assume that Deathrow is an Alpha legion space marine who works for Eisenhorn?

Pron on VHS posted:

Finished Pariah. Am I to assume that Deathrow is an Alpha legion space marine who works for Eisenhorn?

Decline posted:

Anyone know what time preorders go live on Black Library? I tried to stay up for Fall of Cadia last weekend but couldn't make it. Must happen sometime in the middle of the night/in the morning. Very very eager to start End and the Death vol. 2.

xtothez posted:

They sent out that email when UK pre-orders went up at 10am BST, but USA & Canada can't order until 10am PST.

Mazed posted:

It's good to know you're better! And, it's interesting how this dynamic works.

For me, Horus Heresy has been kind of a comfort series that I've often gone to anytime I'm feeling down, as opposed to times I'm more even-keeled. Before I started reading it I was averse, because the premise sounded so cynical and even somewhat mean-spirited, but after giving it a chance, it became clearly more like over-the-top mythic tragedy mixed with big dumb galactic soap opera.

Kylaer posted:

Sanguinius' mournful dying words are "I'm so tired of all these ends and these deaths."

Improbable Lobster posted:

"You have truly become the warhammer the horus heresy, Horus"

Black Griffon posted:

sharknado slashfic posted:

As someone really looking forward to possible Scouring novels I really wish it would end already. Just kill the three dumbasses and be done with it.

Kylaer posted:

Sanguinius' mournful dying words are "I'm so tired of all these ends and these deaths."

Medication is helping, thank you. I think specifically it was ADB's stuff that was getting to me because he's so skilled at writing characters who are irredeemably evil, and silly as it sounds, it made me feel like a bad person to be cackling at the quips thrown by Talos and company when in the next scene they were literally murdering babies.

Also I'm going to be posting a lot in this thread because one of my closest friends recently died and they were the main person I discussed 40K stuff with

Kylaer posted:

True but the reason they'd say no (apart from shooting down authors who want to overthrow the canon or write things GW doesn't want spelled out, like what happened to the missing legions) is because they don't think it'd sell. If someone pitched the idea of writing a slice-of-life novel about some mid-level Administratum functionary going about her boring job, dealing with ordinary marital stresses and trying to guide her kids through their equally mundane challenges, the editors are going to decline it, not because they're ideologically opposed but because they can't make any money off it. (And yes I know people in this thread would read it but that's an outlier). If Black Library thought they could make money publishing stories in which the most violent scene is when someone raised their voice in an argument, they would.

DaysBefore posted:

Jokes on you the next series is going to be a forty-eight part reboot of The Beast followed by twelve short story collections about Vulkan, all by Nick Kyme

Sorry to hear it bud

Kylaer posted:

I think the big plot developments with regard to Cadia, the Great Rift, Indomitus etc are a good thing for enabling a wider variety of storytelling in the setting. Or at least potentially a good thing, GW may always squander the potential depending on how they move forward. Before the shakeup, the entire theme was about inching closer and closer to midnight, and that constrains things. The strength of 40K has always been that the galaxy is big enough to write whatever you want without being hemmed in by someone else's story - now there's the far side of the rift where things are basically back to Old Night and you can really play up the isolation and desperation, but on the Terran side, the replenished strength of the Imperium under Guilleman lets you tell some new stories, stories that aren't predicated on teetering on the verge of collapse. The Twice-Dead King stories do a really good job using this, suddenly it's the xenos who are fleeing the staggering might of a Crusade fleet instead of the humans fleeing a Waaagh, it's a great new spin.

Roller Coast Guard posted:

Imperium Nihilus is a great opportunity for authors to go wild in a setting where Imperial control is vastly diminished and you just have this gigantic trainwreck of chaos and xenos and loyalists and separatists smashing tables over each other's heads all day every day. It's also a great opportunity to start confronting the idea that the Imperium is a necessary evil, perhaps by showing examples of secessionist regimes surviving and maybe even doing better without the shackles of Terra on them.

Essentially what this guy says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6aHzfxkFk

Roller Coast Guard posted:

Imperium Nihilus is a great opportunity for authors to go wild in a setting where Imperial control is vastly diminished and you just have this gigantic trainwreck of chaos and xenos and loyalists and separatists smashing tables over each other's heads all day every day. It's also a great opportunity to start confronting the idea that the Imperium is a necessary evil, perhaps by showing examples of secessionist regimes surviving and maybe even doing better without the shackles of Terra on them.

Essentially what this guy says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6aHzfxkFk

Black Griffon posted:

We gotta get Austin Walker and the gang to make a really, really small season of More Civilized for Titus Endor, that'll get GW's attention and cause them to make "The Andor of 40k".

He's called 'Endor', it's got a Star Wars connection.

euphronius posted:

When is it November 4

D-Pad posted:

Tonight at 11pm CST as far as Amazon kindle is concerned. I can't wait.

Black Griffon posted:

Let me go further: I think you all should hang on threee weeks or so, which should give me time to catch up and start vol. 1.

Anyway, oh boy.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

tomorrow I’ll have to hit the snooze button on this thread to avoid spoilers but I am very excited for End and the Death 2: End and Die Harder

a lovely king posted:

It's up on my kindle. Reading now.

Nuclear Tourist posted:

Also mad respect to anyone who has the mental constitution to read every single Heresy book because there's not a chance in hell I'll ever do that.

Shockeh posted:

The problem is if they want the base to be interested in Imperium Nihilus, they maybe need to have some interesting stories set in it.

Spear of the Emperor was cool, and did it. But even in it, it was set dressing. It's just... not that compelling, not because it's intrinsically boring, there just isn't many good stories set in it.