Upcoming Horus Heresy Novels

[DrakonTheNightLord]

I'm kept waiting for books that I'd actually want to read... I don't really care much for short stories...

[daddy4count]

I'm kept waiting for books that I'd actually want to read... I don't really care much for short stories...

I tend to agree... I much prefer the full novels to the short story collections.

Though, I find them useful when I'm between books... I just finished Age of Darkness while I was waiting for some others to come available at my library. Most of the stories leave me wanting... it's just 20 pages cut from a bigger story and by itself feels hollow and without meaning. Pulp.

But every once in a while that short story holds a gem that you would never find otherwise...

Still, I prefer a good, long and engrossing story that grabs my brain in an iron grip and won't let go for a few days.

[BrokenWing]

It's really difficult to get me to read sci-fi books these days. I think the entire science fiction written community needs a huge kick in the nuts, combined with a super massive explosion and one or two large black holes. Everything that comes out these days just seems to be the same formulaic garbage....and now you've all heard part of my rant =).

That said, I did really like the Battle for the Abyss and have picked up Deliverance Lost...don't know when I'll get around to reading it though.

[daddy4count]

I tend to agree... and not just SciFi but most fiction is fairly vanilla any more.

Though that first HH book changed that for me in an instant. I haven't been sucked into by a book like that in years. I couldn't put it down.

[SourImplant]

With Know No Fear being released this weekend, they decided to put up another excerpt on GW's site:

'I did not expect to meet you like this,' Lorgar says. His grey eyes are bright. 'In person, so I could embrace you. This seems premature. I was informed of your request. I have had no time to dress in ceremonial attire-'

'Brother,' says Guilliman. 'You see that I greet you in regular battleplate too. There will be time for personal greeting and full dress ceremony when you arrive. You are just a few hours out now?'

'Decelerating fast,' Lorgar replies. He looks at someone not caught inside the hololithic field of his bridge. 'The shipmaster says five hours.'

'We will meet together then, you and your commanders. Me and mine.' Guilliman looks at the warlords whose images have appeared around Lorgar's. They are all connecting from different ships. He'd forgotten the imposing bulk of Argel Tal. The lipless sneer of Foedral Fell. The predatory curiosity of Hol Beloth. The hunched gloom of Kor Phaeron. The lightless smile of Erebus.

'Some of you are already here,' Guilliman notes.

'I am, sir,' says Erebus.

'We will meet shortly, then,' says Guilliman.

Erebus inclines his head, more an accepting bow of the head than a nod.

'My vessel is entering orbit,' says Kor Phaeron.

'Welcome to Calth,' says Guilliman.

[daddy4count]

did you catch the one in the email alert today?

they PDF'd it and I didn't feel like copying it all by hand...

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Download...ow-no-fear.pdf

[Marine Dad]

Ive read all the HH series upto & including "Deliverance Lost" which I really enjoyed In the main enjoyed them all, some I struggled with more than others, but when you have been around as long as I have with the HH background always there but not fleshed out, the the series was always going to be a winner for me ..... Favs so far - Legion, First Heretic, Thousand Sons, .... least Favs - Mechanicum, Desent of Angels, ............... Looking forward to ........ Books on the big man himself Angron, and expansion on the "return" of Loken and the possible links to the Inquision, Something on the early Night Lords maybe, maybe a bit of background on the Emperor, Im intregued by the "missing 2 Legions" and of course the final showdown itself.
On the subject of the missing legions has anybody discussed the new info from deliverance where Corax discloses the the 2 wayward sons were already "missing" at the time of his reunification with the Emperor

Anybody else got Most & Least Favs? and anybody got anything that they might like to see in the series in the future, or even any Rumours about what will be in the future books? ....MD

[DrakonTheNightLord]

WELCOME TO CALTH.

Okay, buying that.

[SourImplant]

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress..../dreadnoughts/

Since Forge World released the Contemptor-pattern Dreadnought, I’ve been extremely well aware that one of them is absolutely going to be a major, major character in my next Horus Heresy novel, Betrayer. I was originally tempted to try and get him on the cover, but in the end I wimped out and went with something reliable (and, I’ll add, absolutely brutal in the final showing).

Sounds like AD-B is doing more Heresy-era World Eaters beyond his Butcher's Nails audio drama.

[DrakonTheNightLord]

Bjorn the Fell-handed, perhaps.

[SourImplant]

Bjorn the Fell-handed, perhaps.

Eh, maybe. But probably not. The title of the novel suggests it will center around Kharn of the World Eaters.

[vikinboere]

As far as i know there aren't any worldeaters novels around? except perhaps some short stories and a little bit about them in battle for the abyss? I would love to read more about kharn...

[daddy4count]

Not sure Bjorn was interred in the Contemptor?

At least the cover of Battle of the Fang shows him in the current model... though it may have been a trade up since that was 1000 years later..?

My guess is that it will be a new character centered around the Contemptor dred, rather than the dred centered around an existing character.

[SourImplant]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Kno...r-Trailer.html

Unsurprisingly, we’ve received an absolutely huge number of orders for this book, so many in fact that the warehouse is bursting at the seams trying to contain them.

So we’re going to start shipping on Tuesday, a week earlier than normal. This means that if you pre-order it now, you’ll be one of the first in the world to get a copy. What’s more, any other pre-orders in the same basket as Know No Fear will ship out at the same time.

And because we don’t want to anger the eBook reading tech adept of Mars, were also going to bring forward the date of the digital launch to Tuesday. That’s only 100 hours away!
If you haven’t already, get your pre-orders in now.

[SourImplant]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/the...a-convene.html

Will you ever do a book from the Emperor’s point of view?

Dan Abnett: We have been tempted, but we don’t think it would work. The Emperor exists in both the warp and reality simultaneously… how do you even approach writing that?

Gav Thorpe: Throughout the series, you see many facets of the Emperor, but you never truly know what he thinks. If we did try, it might ruin the mystery behind him.

James Swallow: He’s a truly alien character, beyond trans-human.

And maybe the Dreadnought character mentioned earlier could be modeled after Bale, from the Tempus Fugitives campaign Age of the Emperor:

[SourImplant]

http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress....rd-inquisitor/

I missed most of the last Horus Heresy meeting, which is fine as I didn’t have that many questions anyway, and out of all the team, I’m probably the one who least enjoys discussing his in-progress stuff. I see the value everyone gets out of the chats, and how it can change stuff from, say, a detail here or there, to the entire course of a book. I mean, we’ve surely spent 6 hours or more at meetings discussing Fear to Tread in the last couple of years. I’ve known the storyline of that novel, and been around for the chats and feedback about it, since before The First Heretic was released. But I prefer to work in a little more isolation.

That said, Graham changed the entire focus of Betrayer with a single sentence last time, so… y’know, whatever. My point is this: I hate talking about planned or in-progress stuff, and prefer to retreat into my isolation chamber until the book’s done. I did have a suggestion for Betrayer’s subheader, which went down pretty well. That was about it.

[daddy4count]

I got my first ever newsletter email from AD-B this morning, including that bit.

What a fantastic read... even his newsletter is engrossing and well written.

[PoisonWood]

I have read all of the HH, so of course am looking forward to "Know no Fear". what I would LOVE now that the HH has fleshed out Corax is a HH book that at least has(I mean really even a couple dozen...or 1 dozen) pages about Vulkan and the Salamanders, or the Night Lords. To be perfectly honest, I am slightly tired of books that seem to always involve the Word Bearers vs. Ultramarines setting.

[SourImplant]

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Hor...nd_Bolter.html

With all Friday’s excitement over the tickets for the Black Library Weekender (no idea what we’re on about? Read this), you could be forgiven if you forgot that issue 17 of Hammer and Bolter went on sale. It would be a shame to miss this month issue though, as it’s a big one, with tie-ins to several series and more action and excitement than you can shake a chainsword at.

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And finally, a brand new Horus Heresy novella premiers in this issue of Hammer and Bolter, as we present the first part of 'The Lion', a Dark Angels story by Gav Thorpe. As the name suggests, this tale focuses on Lion El’Jonson, primarch of the Dark Angels, as his ship comes under attack by... well, I don’t want to give the game away. Let’s just say that if you’re a fan of Descent of Angels and Fallen Angels, then brace yourself, because no one is safe...

I believe this story is also Thorpe's entry in the upcoming novella collection, The Primarchs. So if you've got an ebook reader, $4 to spare, and a desire to read a sneak peek before it's available in print, you've got your shot.

[SourImplant]

Black Library posted an excerpt from Gav Thorpe's novella, The Lion:

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/The_Lion.html

‘My liege, the way is clear to the warp core. You must come at once. There is something else here, something we cannot destroy.’ The comm-link hissed for a few seconds. ‘It… It wants to speak with you.’