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I have the Era of Ruin standard hardcover on pre-order on Amazon Canada. I was happy to grab a Special Edition copy of Fulgrim the Perfect Son today. I think the trick is to start refreshing 6 minutes before it officially appears as an announcement on WarCom. I was refreshing at 10:54 am Mountain Time on Warhammer.com and was able to place an order for the Fulgrim novel Special edition. At 11:40 am Mountain time, the standard hardcover was being shown as "Sold Out Online" and the Special edition was showing as "Temporarily Out of Stock".

Revealed by Amazon Germany: https://amzn.eu/d/gAz8Udu (the new Carcharodon novel) https://amzn.eu/d/aX6D2yE (new Space Marines vs Death Guard novel, can a German person, please confirm if this is brand new or a translation of a previously released book?) https://amzn.eu/d/2w0DZLf (Catachan novel, again I am requesting confirmation from a German speaker if this is an old novel or a brand new book) https://amzn.eu/d/cf9PiSS (Fulgrim the Perfect Son Paperback)

https://amzn.eu/d/hMQltzz Italian edition of Graham Mcneill's Horus Heresy Fulgrim, to be published by Panini Comics. To be released on 22nd May 2025 on the German Amazon. Is this a comic book version, or the first time that this book is being translated into Italian? Can someone take a guess? https://amzn.eu/d/aX1T9oJ False Gods to be published in Italian on 8 May.

https://a.co/d/3Z2cMAn A fantastic Warhammer 40,000 novel from Black Library featuring the Astra Militarum. Physically and psychologically conditioned from childhood under the most horrific conditions imaginable, the Tempestus Scions are the Imperium’s deadliest human soldiers – fearsome killers expected to follow their orders ruthlessly and without question. Led by the merciless Tempestor Traxel, the Scions of First Eradicant squad drop directly into the fires of a global civil war. Joined by a commissar who personifies the suffering of his past and facing a foe from the darkest days of the Imperium, Traxel’s fracturing psyche places the entire world at risk. On Rilis, Traxel will face the foe that broke him. This time, there is no price he will not pay. Astra Militarum novel releasing on August 26

Three of those: https://amzn.eu/d/j8dpGCV Grotsnik: Da Mad Dok (Warhammer 40,000) https://amzn.eu/d/20lnHQj Silent King by Guy Haley German edition, so English edition in April (fnac is undergoing maintenance currently, but I posted the Silent King release schedule of April in an earlier post). https://a.co/d/7INfieC Era of Ruin up for pre order on Amazon Canada A fantastic anthology of short stories set during the Siege of Terra. Horus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war. In Chris Wraight’s ‘Homebound’, Ilya Ravallion must choose between the decimated White Scars and living out what remains of her life in peace. And an embattled Ahzek Ahriman must race against time to learn what he can of the warp, before its gates close to him forever, in ‘Ex Libris’ by John French. Featuring tales from Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and many more, this anthology follows mighty Custodians, scheming sorcerers, and the lowly footsoldiers of the Imperial Army, as all negotiate the devastating aftermath of mankind’s greatest reckoning.

Fair to say that if EC is not announced for pre-order on March 1st this Sunday February 23rd, our dissatisfaction with GW’s release schedule will increase?

Friends, I voted for Elemental Council as the best BL book of 2024. We should all participate in this voting.

https://www.fnac.com/a21021611/Warhammer-40-000-Les-Rescapes-de-l-Enfer-Justin-D-Hill Pre-order on March 26 Justin D Hill Hell's Last Minka Lesk novel

https://www.fnac.com/a21172291/Warhammer-40-000-Le-Roi-Silencieux-Guy-Haley Releasing on April 16, last book of the Dawn of Fire Series, book's author is Guy Haley. The Silent King https://amzn.eu/d/gErGNwB German edition releasing on May 6 Book description (translated from the German using Google Translate) : The first phase of the Indomitus Crusade is coming to an end. Large parts of the Imperium Sanctus are temporarily under Imperial control again, and yet war is raging on all fronts. The Primarch Roboute Guilliman is still trying to reach and save the Imperium Nihilus through the Great Rift when news of a renewed attack on Ultramar reaches him. But the Avenging Son must move with a large part of the crusade to the galactic south, as the threat from the Necrons grows. Kallide's battle fleet, which was sent to the dangerous Pariah Nexus a few years ago, is believed to be lost. The Necron dynasties are uniting and there are whispers of an ancient power that has returned to rule over them - the Silent King.

https://a.co/d/bBekrsI Upcoming Astra Militarum novel (I am not sure if this is an already published title that is being re-released as it says TBC in the title) Author: R.S Wilt Release date: Aug. 26 2025 Description: A fantastic Warhammer 40,000 novel from Black Library featuring the Astra Militarum. Physically and psychologically conditioned from childhood under the most horrific conditions imaginable, the Tempestus Scions are the Imperium’s deadliest human soldiers – fearsome killers expected to follow their orders ruthlessly and without question. Led by the merciless Tempestor Traxel, the Scions of First Eradicant squad drop directly into the fires of a global civil war. Joined by a commissar who personifies the suffering of his past and facing a foe from the darkest days of the Imperium, Traxel’s fracturing psyche places the entire world at risk. On Rilis, Traxel will face the foe that broke him. This time, there is no price he will not pay.

Wasn't the Black Library Celebration online video event supposed to happen in February? Has any specific date been announced? Only 17 days of February are left. I check the Warhammer Community website everyday but I do not see any indication of a Black Library event this month. Does anyone have any idea about this BL event?

I LOVE your post. Thank you for your comments. I was exploring science fiction novel series and I found that the HALO game series has novels attached to them and most of them are highly rated on Goodreads. Also, the Gears of War novel series are also positively rated on Goodreads. I have been reading Black Library novels since 2010. I love this website Bolter and Chainsword and I love the Warhammer lore. I know it is "Science Fantasy" and not "Science Fiction". I was born in 1990 and spent my teenage years in the 2000s reading Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi novels, Harry Potter, LOTR, and HG Wells. I posted my comment by thinking what will be possible in the future for mankind. Of course Space Marines can be genetically engineered. From the point of realism, what I intended to express is that even now without Space Marines, it would be possible but not moral and something that would be heavily frowned upon by liberal minded people i.e. the WE plan to make more aggressive fighters. I think it would be scientifically possible to make soldiers hyper aggressive and tolerate more pain. Back in the early 2000s I used to watch The Universal Soldier Sci Fi movie series featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme. I think something like the Universal Soldier type warrior can definitely be possible in the near future. So, I hope nobody took offense at my post about Warhammer lacking realism. I LOVE Warhammer. I really like the lore of Warhammer and I totally feel happy about the fantasy aspects of Warhammer. My point was that: is it possible to start a real life fighting force or army by incorporating any of the 4 Chaos God factions and that is when I thought that only the Khorne and Slaanesh marines make sense in our real world because both of those traitor factions were created by surgical procedures and bodily alterations. Whereas the Death Guard and Thousand Sons came to be corrupted due to supernatural influences. I became very excited after reading the lore of Warhammer for more than a decade and started to contemplate if these Chaos God cults and factions could be made a reality in our world and we could have a Chaos faction in a realistic sense in our own world. To me, only World Eaters brain surgery "butchers nails" and Emperor's Children sonic weaponry surgery seemed to be physically and realistically possible. It would be a realistic idea to have a cult of soldiers who are fanatics, enjoy killing, see themselves as "butchers", and are very aggressive like the World Eaters or for the EC, it would be quite possible to have an infantry or army regiment who are degenerate sadists. In fact I got so excited that I emailed my University History librarian to give me a list of historical examples of sadistic, cruel, degenerate/hedonistic and debauched warriors similar but much less extreme compared to the fictional Emperor's Children. I was wondering if there were some historical examples and if this faction could happen in our real life in our own human world. Imagine an army of sadistic degenerates in real life. How horrible would that be? I was contemplating the possibility of having a Khorne or Slaanesh cult for real i.e. a cult or groups of soldiers who are murderers and butchers and live only to kill and maim or a group of soldiers of degenerate pleasure seekers like the EC. Nurgle and Tzeentch factions seem impossible and cannot be made into a reality in our world. They are fantasy factions (Nurgle Death Guard and Tzeentch Sorcerers) because Sorcery does not exist. The world is materialist. So, it is quite possible to have aggressive soldiers immune to pain like some Universal Soldier movie concept or a group of sadistic and deviant soldiers who live to inflict pain and suffering. These are both war criminal groups and outside the Geneva convention, but compared to Nurgle or Tzeentch, it is actually possible to have some kind of Chaos faction in real life around the "God of murder" or the "God of twisted pleasure" concepts. That was the point I was trying to make.

I did not know under which forum to post this, so I thought the Black Library upcoming 2025 would be best. (The Moderati can change it if they think it would be a better fit somewhere else, perhaps in the CSM general section?) But, have any of you lore enthusiasts ever thought that from the perspective of realism in Science Fiction/Fantasy: of the 4 major Chaos gods, both Nurgle's forces The Death Guard and Tzeentch's forces The Thousand Sons are in the realm of the supernatural and not possible? Both Nurgle and Tzeentch are totally occult and based on magick. Nurgle is based on supernatural diseases and Tzeentch is based on physical mutation due to the influence of Chaotic corruption. Both of them are heavily drawn from occult influences as it is not scientifically fathomable to have a "God" of decay who leads physically corrupted plague marines who are somehow super strong yet fully diseased. From a scientific realistic viewpoint, it just does not sound rational to conceive of people who are "strong" or even able to carry themselves and fight if they are overcome with disease. From a realistic perspective and what makes scientific sense, diseases make you weak and die off. That is why you need the supernatural being of Nurgle to make diseased Space Marines be capable of fighting and living on forever. It is the same with Tzeentch. Having Tzeentch Sorcerers is just not scientifically possible from the point of realism as we do not have the phenomenon of psychic powers in real life and the concept of a God/entity causing physical mutations is in the realm of fantasy. The idea of a supernatural entity turning the bodies of soldiers into dust and them still living inside their armor as is the case of Rubric Marines again falls in the realm of fantasy and imagination. No God from real life religions ever gifts physical changes as powers. Therefore both Nurgle's and Tzeentch's forces are totally in the realm of the supernatural and fantasy. However, when it comes to Khorne's World Eaters and Slaanesh's Emperor's Children, even without a "God" leading and influencing these CSM, both these factions exist because of one thing which is indeed scientifically possible and falls under realism, that thing being "surgical enhancements". Both the Emperor's Children and the World Eaters were initially "corrupted" by surgical modifications. So, if you completely remove Khorne and Slaanesh, it is quite possible and not outside the realm of scientific realism, to conceive of a military force whose brains are surgically modified to make them more aggressive, resistant to injury, and more tenacious in combat like the WE. Similarly for the Emperor's Children, it is indeed possible to have sonic weaponry and adjustments done to the genetically enhanced super soldier that increases their sensory pleasure receptors during combat. Because both the EC and the WE became who they are not by mutation at first (that happened with the DG and the TS), but by human intervention via medical experimentation and surgical enhancements. It is only when Khorne's warriors develop superhuman strength or Slaanesh warriors get some kind of "blessing" or gift from their patron deity to make them feel more variety of sensations that is when the WE and the EC enter the realm of the supernatural and go outside the boundary of realism in Science fiction. What do you guys think? Request to Moderati: if you feel that this post should be in a different forum you can do it, but I put a lot of effort in it, so please don't delete the post if you don't like it. You can of course move it elsewhere, if you feel that would be necessary.

https://www.fnac.com/a21172286/Jude-Reid-Embargo-1#omnsearchpos=8 Could this be the new Fulgrim book by Jude Reid? Release date is April 30.

Book releases revealed by Fnac: https://www.fnac.com/a21172291/Warhammer-40-000-Aube-de-feu-9-le-roi-silencieux-G-Haley (April 16 last book of the Dawn of Fire series Silent King by Guy Haley) https://www.fnac.com/a21172286/J-Reid-Titre-a-venir (unknown book by Jude Reid releasing on April 30)