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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:05 PM, Drekkan said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 5:43 PM, Scribe said:

The moment anyone can take those 4chan rumours out behind the shed and deliver unto them the Emperor's Mercy, please...do. Otherwise, its exactly what I was talking about.

The sister of silence character call Aphone is a pretty big hint of how subtle it's going to be.

 

 

"Aphone" actually means voiceless, which is about as suitable for a sisterhood that won't speak as it gets.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:16 PM, DarkChaplain said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:05 PM, Drekkan said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 5:43 PM, Scribe said:

The moment anyone can take those 4chan rumours out behind the shed and deliver unto them the Emperor's Mercy, please...do. Otherwise, its exactly what I was talking about.

The sister of silence character call Aphone is a pretty big hint of how subtle it's going to be.

 

 

"Aphone" actually means voiceless, which is about as suitable for a sisterhood that won't speak as it gets.

 

Let's agree to disagree. You enjoy it, I don't. Have a nice read Frater.

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 
 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

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....You read faster than the Khan rides, frater.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:33 PM, Kelborn said:

Wait what?

 

Could you elaborate these spoilers, Fire Golem?

 

I need a bit of background before judging them. If possible of course.

My two cents is that the book is longer than a bloody ASOIAF novel or two-three usual HH novels, I stand ready to be convinced that the stars of ponies made out of raspberries (the best berries) by the end. 

 

Granted, as I type this, it occurs to me that everyone will read it eventually anyway so its perhaps a pointless comment:sweat:

 

The mortal scenes are great so far, Abnett really has a knack for describing the horror of war (and has greatly improved at showing how utterly screwed most mortals are at trying to fight Astartes).

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:33 PM, Kelborn said:

Wait what?

 

Could you elaborate these spoilers, Fire Golem?

 

I need a bit of background before judging them. If possible of course.

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Its 545 pages long, btw. Big ol book. 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

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Well, :censored:. There goes my interest in the book. That's both demystifying a ton of aspects about the entire setting and particular characters and retconning in stuff that's just not very interesting in itself. Guess I can wait those many months til the ebook/audiobook releases. Or another year or three, maybe.

 

It's always the Abnett novels that go this deep down the bum on lore changes, huh? And people got pissy when Laurie dared to have Malcador tell his dying "friend" the Heresy was totally planned, honest, you can die in peace now. I can't see this going well.

 

With the added context, it might be salvageable, depending on how Abnett tells it.

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, DarkChaplain said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

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Well, :censored:. There goes my interest in the book. That's both demystifying a ton of aspects about the entire setting and particular characters and retconning in stuff that's just not very interesting in itself. Guess I can wait those many months til the ebook/audiobook releases. Or another year or three, maybe.

 

It's always the Abnett novels that go this deep down the bum on lore changes, huh? And people got pissy when Laurie dared to have Malcador tell his dying "friend" the Heresy was totally planned, honest, you can die in peace now. I can't see this going well.

 

Speaking personally, and as someone who holds execution extremely highly for how much I enjoy something, my issues with Goulding mostly comes down to the fact that most of his writing is just not very good, and that his motivations for writing some of what he did is a bit suspect. The Malcador audio just struck me as pandering, and Last Council didn't win any favours by setting a new bar on how not to write Horus. Not to say Abnett isn't necessarily pandering, I haven't read the spoilers, but the synopsis of most of his Heresy entries would have made me scratch my head without the surrounding context and writing ability (eg: The Alpha Legion turned because a secret Cabal of Xenos convinced them to eradicate mankind for the good of the galaxy, and Alpharius Omegon is actually twins!)

 

I fully expect to be won over by whatever it is people are annoyed about.

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:58 PM, Roomsky said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, DarkChaplain said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

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Well, :censored:. There goes my interest in the book. That's both demystifying a ton of aspects about the entire setting and particular characters and retconning in stuff that's just not very interesting in itself. Guess I can wait those many months til the ebook/audiobook releases. Or another year or three, maybe.

 

It's always the Abnett novels that go this deep down the bum on lore changes, huh? And people got pissy when Laurie dared to have Malcador tell his dying "friend" the Heresy was totally planned, honest, you can die in peace now. I can't see this going well.

 

Speaking personally, and as someone who holds execution extremely highly for how much I enjoy something, my issues with Goulding mostly comes down to the fact that most of his writing is just not very good, and that his motivations for writing some of what he did is a bit suspect. The Malcador audio just struck me as pandering, and Last Council didn't win any favours by setting a new bar on how not to write Horus. Not to say Abnett isn't necessarily pandering, I haven't read the spoilers, but the synopsis of most of his Heresy entries would have made me scratch my head without the surrounding context and writing ability (eg: The Alpha Legion turned because a secret Cabal of Xenos convinced them to eradicate mankind for the good of the galaxy, and Alpharius Omegon is actually twins!)

 

I fully expect to be won over by whatever it is people are annoyed about.

 

My gripe is honestly how often people will at later dates claim to know the book and use it in conversation despite never having read it and likely knowing nothing of the detail or context.

 

Look at this thread alone, its already coming and its irking me already.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

 

 

rofl...Abnett strikes again.

 

EDIT: Not one of you can tell me that this is grounded in the lore, its simply new fluff. That is what seperates (for better or far worse) Abnett from the rest of the top authors.

 

He just does whatever the hell he wants. Its not 'world building' its 'I made up these things called perpetuals, and I'm going to bend the entire scope of the meta story towards them in my novels!'

 

Unreal.

 

EDIT the SECOND: And I'll still get this, and I'll read it, and I'll have another book (with Prospero Burns, because Unremember is a comic book joke) to complain about for the next 5 years.

 

EDIT the THIRD: And he gets the write the capstone of the entire Heresy!!!!! UNREAL.

 

EDIT the FOURTH: Rohr, how can you say its the same? Its not remotely close.

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I'm guessing if one perpetual was able to do what is being said in the spoilers they would need to be vastly powerful. Doesn't make much immediate sense to me without context, but i'm also guessing Dan may be setting up some twists and turns here for the last book or two.

 

Does Grammaticus shag anyone in this book?

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  On 3/21/2020 at 9:08 PM, RedFurioso said:

Finally, one writer has the balls to answer all important questions. That means a lot.

 

I HIGHLY doubt anything is definite in here, unless the Editor's have completely just given up, and allowed the author with the most clout to do as he pleases.

Managed to pick mine up today and about 100 pages in - vintage Abnett writing so far and really refreshing to see major characters handled well, written at different pitches and given given some humanity. As ever, Abnett is the best, most immersive BL writer when it comes to both action and world building.

 

Probably going to stay away from the thread until I’ve finished now. Lots of chat about the spoiler from 4Chan (which I deliberately avoided) that I don’t want to distract me. Considering though that the SoT series is the first time since Bill King’s short stories that this story has been told in narrative, I’m confused as to why people think that there is a clearly defined story that any of the writers are going to be breaking from? Unless we want to take Bill King’s work from the 90s as indisputable canon then almost all of this arc is going to be brand new work...

 

That said, I’m fully prepared to look really stupid if the book now ends on some complete setting breaking cliff hanger or something...

The major points of the story as established and existing for 20+ years should absolutely be 'indisputable canon'.

 

The creation of a whole sub plot, that has no true need to exist, is vintage Abnett.

 

That said, until I own and read the book, its very possible that just like people flipped about Master of Mankind 'rewriting the story' when it did no such thing, perhaps the spoiler itself is misleading or wrong, and he hasnt spun up some way to continue to push his creation into a setting that existed before him.

Not exactly the case though, a good example of this was when Abnett wrote Legion. He discussed lots of ideas with Alan Merrett which were all approved, then Alan dropped the 'bombshell' that GW saw Alpharius as one of a twin. So unfortunately nothing in even the HH series is immune to any changes or additions.
  On 3/21/2020 at 9:08 PM, RedFurioso said:

Finally, one writer has the balls to answer all important questions. That means a lot.

But was it needed though?

I don't have the book and I will read it after the series is finished Like I've mentioned already.

 

But my overall thought is just like the Ryan Reynolds "but why?" meme.

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 7:48 PM, DarkChaplain said:

 

  On 3/21/2020 at 7:24 PM, fire golem said:

I’ve finished it. I loved it. There are parts that some people will probably not like. 

 

About the 4chan rumours:

 

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Well, :censored:. There goes my interest in the book. That's both demystifying a ton of aspects about the entire setting and particular characters and retconning in stuff that's just not very interesting in itself. Guess I can wait those many months til the ebook/audiobook releases. Or another year or three, maybe.

 

It's always the Abnett novels that go this deep down the bum on lore changes, huh? And people got pissy when Laurie dared to have Malcador tell his dying "friend" the Heresy was totally planned, honest, you can die in peace now. I can't see this going well.

 

With the added context, it might be salvageable, depending on how Abnett tells it.

 

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Keep in mind that this could easily get retconned in the future, HH very much works like that especially when it comes to Abnetts work. It wouldnt be the first time other authors stepped in and "clarified" what Abnett actually meant. It happened before with Alpha Legion and Space Wolves and their lore established in Legion and Prospero Burns.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 10:27 PM, LJF said:

 

Keep in mind that this could easily get retconned in the future, HH very much works like that especially when it comes to Abnetts work. It wouldnt be the first time other authors stepped in and "clarified" what Abnett actually meant. It happened before with Alpha Legion and Space Wolves and their lore established in Legion and Prospero Burns.

 

 

We dont have time for ADB to fix his work again.

Given the coordination and likely prospect of Dan and ADB writing book 7 and book 8 they’re already on top of it.

 

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 10:35 PM, Marshal Rohr said:

Given the coordination and likely prospect of Dan and ADB writing book 7 and book 8 they’re already on top of it.

 

I'm not gonna bother worrying about it, because no, ADB wont simply counter whatever is in this book. This is just another thing that happens when Abnett enters the scene.

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