Raulmichile Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Just for you to know. I bought the e-version of the novel Fifteen Hours and OMG, the best 40K novel I've read in years! It's a shame it is no longer in print. It doesn't matter you don't play IG, just read it. I gaurantee you won't be disappointed. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyner Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I read it and really liked it, the training scenes were interesting and liked the ending quite a bit. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmittens Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I hate to admit this, but will, I found an online pirated copy of it and read it on a whim. Never had any interest in Warhammer 40k before that. After reading 15 hours, 2.5 years later I am still only reading Warhammer 40k. Of course, now I buy only legitimate ones that provide income to the authors. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordentHex Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Have the book from back when it came out. It was and still is a rather good IG book. really shows Ork Carnage. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henricus Divis Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Really good read just reminds you how enormous the Imperium is and how insignificant a single man is, and also how incompetent the administratum is at times. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apothecary Vaddon Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 scanlon's first and best imo a lot of people hate descent of angels but I'm personally very okay with it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akylas Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Is the omnibus it came in no longer available? That was very nearly my first 40k book, along with the Ultramarines omnibus (very first was Legends of the Space Marines, which left me confused but wanting more). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grey Mage Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Is that the one named so because it was the life expectancy of a gaurdsman on the planet? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3379945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Eremon Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 Yes, Grey Mage. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3380059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raulmichile Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 I just finished reading it. Wow, it's the first story in years in which a felt emotionally connected with the characters. For Guad players it is a must read. I don't know why BL has it out of print! This author does a great job portraying how the imperial war machine works. Most important for me is that the ending is not excactly the happy ending nonsense sometimes you find in other novels. Definitely the best BL book I've read in some time. Hope they reprint it soon! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3381362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Carnelian Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Fifteen Hours isn't just a good Warhammer 40,000 novel, it's a good novel period. The characters get fleshed out, the dialouge sings, and the setting just crushes you. Not to mention that it features Orks less as comedy material and more like inhuman monsters (a depiction I have always liked). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3383505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy1391 Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Wow taking it back a few years! I liked this novel and how basically if he made,it past the standard 15 hours he got better gear lol. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3388473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaguecaster Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 It was such a great novel its just a shame they never did another novel, sure they did a couple of short stories a prequel and sequel one but I really wanted to find out more about the guardsmen, I think most guard novels are better than other Black Library ones as most of the characters have more personality and depth since they are usually ordinary human than trying to make them super humans which can lead to making the characters not believable. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3389496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raulmichile Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 It was such a great novel its just a shame they never did another novel, sure they did a couple of short stories a prequel and sequel one but I really wanted to find out more about the guardsmen, I think most guard novels are better than other Black Library ones as most of the characters have more personality and depth since they are usually ordinary human than trying to make them super humans which can lead to making the characters not believable. What is the name of the prequel and the sequel? Do you know if BL still sells them? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3389636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaguecaster Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I the Prequel is called Red Reward and deals with Chelkar who is being investigated by the commissars giving them his side of a story about an Lieutenant, its in the Bringers of Death Anthology http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Bringers-of-Death.html which is sadly out of print The sequel is Knee Deep in which the ones from fifteenth hours go Ork hunting in the sewers its in the Imperial Guard omnibus volume 1 which is again no longer in stock. Both are really good and make the characters in fifteen hours look even better its just a shame they never made another novel as the sequel makes you wonder more about them. Rebel winter is the same good book that was never given another novel especially with what was happening at the end Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3389963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rime Posted June 11, 2013 Share Posted June 11, 2013 Adding my weight to this. 15 hours is one of the better Guard and Black Library novels. Read it and the prequel in the IG Omnibus (something else I'd recommend folk to look out for online someone is selling). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/275957-fifteen-hours/#findComment-3391744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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