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LotDM: Genestealer Cults by Peter Fehervari


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The Walker in Fire is included in Deathwatch: Ignition.

 

Shas'o and/or Tau Empire include A Sanctuary of Wyrms, Out Caste and Fire and Ice, and you'd best pick up the paperback of Tau Empire as it costs way less than Shas'o and includes all of Shas'o plus the Farsight novella released alongside it.

 

Fire Caste might give you trouble getting a print copy of. Looks like it sold out, so you'll have to find a used copy on ebay or Amazon, I'm afraid.

So I have just read the Gnestealer short story. My first Fehervari (man that is a hard name to spell) story. AWESOME.

 

Thanks for the recommendation DC I will definitely be picking up this authors past and future work now. I loved it. The prose. The atmosphere. As has been said, very grim dark and mature.

 

We need more of this kind of work and less bolter porn.

yeah, thanks DC. Another author to interviewlaugh.png . But I'm excited about your recommendation so I'll pick this one up next weekend.

Please, please do interview him - he is a very talented fella and it's sad that he hasn't been given a lot of prominent stuff to write (khm khm Kyme khm khm......)

So on a related note, I was thinking, if I were running things; I would let a Cult populate a mining world; quarantine it; reap its high output; then nuke it from orbit once resources are depleted. I might even be promoted to Administratus Assistant Secundus Grade. Or assissanitated by Ordo Xenos... it's a toss up.

So on a related note, I was thinking, if I were running things; I would let a Cult populate a mining world; quarantine it; reap its high output; then nuke it from orbit once resources are depleted. I might even be promoted to Administratus Assistant Secundus Grade. Or assissanitated by Ordo Xenos... it's a toss up.

Approved! New recolonization plan has been created biggrin.png

 

 

I'm 33% through the novel and enjoying it massively. Really spot on depiction of the cults, with the usual thick atmosphere and plenty of ties to Fehervari's other works. If you've read Fire Caste and Fire and Ice, you'll even see some more or less familiar characters again.

 

Did you finish it, and what did you think?

 

 

 

I'm 33% through the novel and enjoying it massively. Really spot on depiction of the cults, with the usual thick atmosphere and plenty of ties to Fehervari's other works. If you've read Fire Caste and Fire and Ice, you'll even see some more or less familiar characters again.

 

Did you finish it, and what did you think?

 

 

I put it aside for a while to finish reading another book. Took Fehervari a chapter to have me back in the thick of it as if nothing happened.

Am two parts through now and everything's going to hell - and I bloody love it.

 

The action so far has been on point, not overdone, and used to escalate the plot bit by bit. The ties you can find to Fire and Ice are thickening, which is lovely.

 

The book was also pretty nonchalant about the cult-infections:

 

 

 

 

‘What about Ophele?’ Ariken asked suddenly. She ignored the looks the officers threw her way, some puzzled, others angered by her presumption. ‘What happened to her, shepherd? And all the others?’

Bharlo sighed. ‘The last time I saw Ophele she was two months pregnant, though it looked closer to six. Their spawn grow fast.’ He shook his head. ‘She was overjoyed because she’d been honoured by the cult Iconward.’

Exactly. But since its about a character you read about early in the book and can empathize with, you're doubly disgusted by the Cult and all its implications. It'd have been easy to just never talk about those people again, or just blanket-state that they've joined up, but making it clear in such a way? That's a whole different level of horror that I can appreciate.

Exactly. But since its about a character you read about early in the book and can empathize with, you're doubly disgusted by the Cult and all its implications. It'd have been easy to just never talk about those people again, or just blanket-state that they've joined up, but making it clear in such a way? That's a whole different level of horror that I can appreciate.

did you see connections to

Calavera

from the 'Fire and Ice' ;)

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Of course. There's so many neat connections to his other works... I honestly want more about the surviving characters.

We definitely need a new novel - where all the 'survivors' from the previous Fehervari books (Fire Caste, Fire and Ice, shorts, Genestealers Cult) met to win a day msn-wink.gif

I don't think Fehervari will ever allow any of his characters to achieve a clear victory. It is always pyrrhic with him, and everything gets even more scars out of it than they started with.

Even pyrrhic is still a victory msn-wink.gif And in W40K there are not so many of them - if SMs are not included biggrin.png

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