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I literally read that entire Game of Thrones fanfic today and I can say without any doubt in my mind that I enjoyed it more than the actual GoT books.
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Not sure why it took me so long to figure out there may be a thread on SA to chat about Black Library books, but I came to the US for school in 2015, and decided to duck my head into this weird "Bookman's Exchange" store thing the place up here had. Turns out it's absolutely incredible, and I begin re-reading a shitton of books that I had previously only read in German, before running into an Iron Hands book. "They make books about 40K?" I say with the biggest of  faces and dive right in, grabbing some Blood Angels series, and a used Grey Knights Omnibus for 5 bucks. After about a week of devouring books that told stories from the universe my dumb 14-year-old rear end used to play figurines in, I decide to start the Horus Heresy. After a couple of main-series books, I kept mixing in a bunch of other books either accompanying the series, or at least set in the 40k universe, mainly because I didn't want to plow through the series to fast.Fast forward to yesterday, I've put off starting Master of Mankind forever, but eventually started. Now I'm 60% done the next day and probably finishing it tonight...and I'm getting sad that now I'll have to actually wait for books. On top of that, the last couple of times I was looking for used books, I found comments saying the Heresy was essentially in some form of limbo due to organizational fuckups at BL, but I guess that Laurie Golding interview up there goes into detail more, so I'll read that. Welp, that's my story, thanks for listening, and thanks for listing a bunch of suggestions in the OP. I read the Ravenor series, liked it, and always thought "Boy howdy, it sure would be cool if someone wrote a series about the guy's mentor.", without ever wasting a second thought that someone did and that it may possibly own a lot. As an ancillary confession, I love reading 40K stories a whole lot, but I'm a complete emotional schizophrenic when it comes to choosing between traitor legions breaking poo poo in awesome ways, and all the cool Imperium poo poo getting broken. I generally root for whoever is the protagonist in a book, but when stories spend so much time describing and building up really cool stuff of epic proportions, I get all sad when it breaks. Like, I was all happy for Legio Mortis getting ready to break stuff on Mars in Mechanicum, but the entire while I'm whining a quiet "Nooooo, don't break that, oh god that was so cool, oh god, now it's on fire, whyyyy". Same with that cool as gently caress warp bridge/tunnel(?) xeno fortress thing at the beginning. Just a perfectly smooth transition from "Oh wow, that's impressive, god, I love how they fortified inooooooo why would you break it, oh god why?" Or "Nooooo Magnus, not the webway, all the cool poo poo is in there, this was supposed to be so rad!" And this is coming from someone who knew all of man's poo poo was on fire in eternal murder war before ever getting into playing with little metal figures. Had to get that off my chest. Oh, Know no Fear also owns.
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In the grim dark future there is no peace amongst the stars, everything cool is broken, only an eternity of fire and broken poo poo, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Not sure why it took me so long to figure out there may be a thread on SA to chat about Black Library books, but I came to the US for school in 2015, and decided to duck my head into this weird "Bookman's Exchange" store thing the place up here had. Turns out it's absolutely incredible, and I begin re-reading a shitton of books that I had previously only read in German, before running into an Iron Hands book. read night lords god bless u
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Just got an email from BL; they've released Abnett's Fall of Malvolion as an ebook finally. That's a damned good Guard-Tyranid's story. Spoiler: it doesn't last 15 hours.
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BL sounds like every company run by finance that I've ever worked for.
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jng2058 posted:Here you go my brother and sister goons. Wish this was what HBO was airing.
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mllaneza posted:Just got an email from BL; they've released Abnett's Fall of Malvolion as an ebook finally. That's a damned good Guard-Tyranid's story. Spoiler: it doesn't last 15 hours. They released it as a free PDF years ago. It's not really long enough to for an ebook, honestly. I did base my second army on it though! Warning, terrible freehand: 
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Awww! Valentine's Day Astartes!
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AndyElusive posted:Awww! Valentine's Day Astartes! It's only fitting, as most hams are lamenting that they're single.
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SRM posted:It's only fitting, as most hams are lamenting that they're single. 
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SRM posted:It's only fitting, as most hams are lamenting that they're single. I'm proud of myself for calling the chapter correctly.
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Waroduce posted:read night lords god bless u Also, queue this on your playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbfgnBYSaU Alternately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ZYc8hvD98 Alternately 2; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxclr8mD7lE MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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I thought this article about bejeweled skeletons smacked of 40K. Kinda neat that churches have kept bones and relics. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-most-beautiful-dead-photographs-of-jeweled-skeletons
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I picked up Know No Fear and A Thousand Sons for a pittance. The bookstore also has the Ultramarines omnibus. Is it worth picking up?
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What happens to guardsmen who aren't KIA but are too wounded to continue fighting? I know that augmetics and cloned limbs are used depending on how well funded a regiment is, but someone who is broken mentally or paralyzed by a severed spine? What would happen to them? Commissars execute people for dereliction of duty in combat, but ptsd is almost never addressed. I doubt regiments can just send invalids back home. Would they mercy kill them, or repurpose them into servitors?
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Arcsquad12 posted:What happens to guardsmen who aren't KIA but are too wounded to continue fighting? I know that augmetics and cloned limbs are used depending on how well funded a regiment is, but someone who is broken mentally or paralyzed by a severed spine? What would happen to them? Commissars execute people for dereliction of duty in combat, but ptsd is almost never addressed. I doubt regiments can just send invalids back home. Would they mercy kill them, or repurpose them into servitors?
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Arcsquad12 posted:What happens to guardsmen who aren't KIA but are too wounded to continue fighting? I know that augmetics and cloned limbs are used depending on how well funded a regiment is, but someone who is broken mentally or paralyzed by a severed spine? What would happen to them? Commissars execute people for dereliction of duty in combat, but ptsd is almost never addressed. I doubt regiments can just send invalids back home. Would they mercy kill them, or repurpose them into servitors? As with so many things in the Imperium, I expect the answer is "It Depends". If they are maimed during a successful campaign to take or retake a world I imagine something would often be set up by the inhabitants of that world as part of their display of gratitude/penance. Regiments from relatively affluent and civilised worlds would likely have some means of retiring their irreparably damaged heroes to some sort of sanctuary, whilst those with more rough backgrounds likely say a prayer for them and deliver the Emperor's Mercy or farm them off to the AdMech or Guard in some degree of Servitorship/Penal Batallion. Those who are physically broken but still mentally able to serve can be wired up as vehicle or other machinery crews like a more mundane version of Dreadnoughts. However the Rule Of Loose End Tidying dictates that in any printed story they recover their wits and bodies just well enough to sacrifice themselves in some glorious last stand. Roller Coast Guard fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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Panama Red posted:I picked up Know No Fear and A Thousand Sons for a pittance. The bookstore also has the Ultramarines omnibus. Is it worth picking up? The Ultramarines omnibus is... sometimes okay. Dead Sky, Black Sun should have just been retitled "Graham McNeill really doesn't like women much" but the other books are at least readable. They're pretty stamdard bolter porn, both books you picked up blow it out of the water
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"Dead Sky, Black Sun" belongs to the "burn it" category.
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SRM posted:The Ultramarines omnibus is... sometimes okay. Dead Sky, Black Sun should have just been retitled "Graham McNeill really doesn't like women much" but the other books are at least readable. They're pretty stamdard bolter porn, both books you picked up blow it out of the water I read this long ago, but what happened in there again to put it in that category?
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SRM posted:The Ultramarines omnibus is... sometimes okay. Dead Sky, Black Sun should have just been retitled "Graham McNeill really doesn't like women much" but the other books are at least readable. They're pretty stamdard bolter porn, both books you picked up blow it out of the water Hmmm, glad I passed on it then. I actually think Know No Fear is bolter porn. But at least it's decent bolter porn.
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Panama Red posted:Hmmm, glad I passed on it then. I actually think Know No Fear is bolter porn. But at least it's decent bolter porn. Know No Fear was to me like the 40k equivalent of Fury Road. You don't even get to breathe for half the book. And it's really well done. I really loved the way the Mark slowly counts down at the beginning, building suspense. Though I could have used more details on the Ruinstorm creation, and maybe have the Grammaticus storylines tied in a little more comprehensively. (those were both in that book, right?)
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Know No Fear is probably the best Horus Heresy book. It's just absolutely brilliant in almost every way, and the comparison to Fury Road is spot on. Absolutely recommended, absolutely high quality, absolutely fantastic. Decent Bolter Porn undersells it a great deal.
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Know no fear is good, but I felt the story and pace in the second half of the book was not that good. In my opinion, Betrayer is probably the best HH book and top 3 in all 40k, easily.
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Sandweed posted:I read this long ago, but what happened in there again to put it in that category? The Iron Warriors keep breeding stock, which are just mutated, chained up women called the daemonculaba. They implant teenagers inside them through a reverse C-section, stitch them shut, and then force feed the women a nutrient slurry (ground up failed Marines) until they get grotesquely huge and then the fully-formed Marine bursts out of them, without any skin. Some go nuts and are called the "Unfleshed" and they flush them down the toilet where they run around Medrengard in crazy skinless barbarian groups, the rest become Iron Warriors. It's like half a dozen DeviantArt fetishes all stacked on top of each other and it really makes me curious what Graham McNeill's relationship with his mother is like.
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Don't forget how Ventris ends up in that forgotten hellhole in the first place, I' talking about the super daemon warp train who kidnaps random people for fun. Literally. After nearly fifteen loving years I stil remember that.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:McNeill is a terrible writer. Assuming they do have someone editing those novels, I mean. 
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The random Uriel Ventriss novel where he's on some planet and fighting some nids was a decent bolter porn book. I don't even remember the name of it, and I read it like three months ago, so that shows you exactly how worth tracking down it is.
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Angry Lobster posted:Don't forget how Ventris ends up in that forgotten hellhole in the first place, I' talking about the super daemon warp train who kidnaps random people for fun. Literally. After nearly fifteen loving years I stil remember that. The train doesn't kidnap them, it just appears before them and they choose to take a ride on the Daemon train. That part was almost meta. The Ultramarines almost literally say, "if we don't get on the train, the plot can't continue"
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SRM posted:The Ultramarines omnibus is... sometimes okay. Dead Sky, Black Sun should have just been retitled "Graham McNeill really doesn't like women much" but the other books are at least readable. They're pretty stamdard bolter porn, both books you picked up blow it out of the water is that the one where the native women are turned into loving super incubators/wombs for big dumb monsters. SRM posted:gently caress you for making me verify my memory of this poo poo book but here goes: that was it.
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Guy Goodbody posted:The train doesn't kidnap them, it just appears before them and they choose to take a ride on the Daemon train. That part was almost meta. The Ultramarines almost literally say, "if we don't get on the train, the plot can't continue" Speaking of trains, I really liked the part of Eisenhorn where they are on a luxury train solving problems. Tooling around in something like that would have been amazing, and I thought that whole scene was very well set.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:McNeill is a terrible writer. And yet he wrote the quite good 'of Mars' trilogy, so....
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Graham McNeill wrote Mechanicum and that was good, I thought.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:McNeill is a terrible writer. 
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McNeill is inconsistent but his good stuff, like Storm of Iron, is very good.
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AndyElusive posted:Graham McNeill wrote Mechanicum and that was good, I thought. I'm half way through Lords of Mars and I really enjoying them so far. I'm a sucker for mechanicum though.
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