Upcoming BL Stuff - 2022

[Bobss]

Impressive, nice, let's see Paul Allen's card

[nagashnee]

Do we have any idea what the author return is ? Like 1 pound per book or something lower/higher? 

 

Not surprised for Haley man is a writing machine and he has a very solid reputation for good work.  He is one of my few BL buy on release authors for factions i enjoy.

Edited May 11, 2022 by nagashnee

[Felix Antipodes]

Another lean week W40K wise from BL.  The PoD editions of HH books 46-50 are it for this week. (There is an AoS book from Dale Lucas but that’s not for discussion here).

 

Neither are listed on the BL upcoming books page, which (again) needs updating.

[DarkChaplain]

Amazon listings went up recently. We got another edition of the first Soul Drinkers omnibus coming in September

 

The new Eisenhorn omnibus, which includes The Magos on top of the three novels, is due for late November... but I for one am happy I have my Clint Langley cover copy and The Magos separately. The cover is... poor, imo:

 

Gaunt's Ghosts: The Victory, Part Two is due in early December.

 

The Fabius Bile Omnibus (also with a weak-sauce generic cover compared to the individual novels) is due in late August. Sadly, the description does not actually mention the various shorts - one of which has not been published outside the Primogenitor limited edition.

 

The Wraithbone Phoenix for Warhammer Crime should be out the same weekend as Fabius.

 

The regular hardback edition for Mortarion: The Pale King is marching in late September.

 

Inferno! should be back late October. Hopefully this'll mean a return to the normal schedule...

 

Kerenski Diaries by Paul Kearney are also due late October... unless we end up with another legal clash that keeps the book away from folks. Can't believe they still haven't found a way to publish Umbra Sumus again.

 

And it appears like BL is pushing another AoS character novel this year - and the second by Haley. Prince Maesa is actually getting a full starring role outside the many shorts and audios. I'm looking forward to this one, but it also means that Haley will likely not have much 40k to come up this year anymore. With two AoS novels releasing this year, and Throne of Light just released, even Guy should be running out of steam for 2022. Even though I wish we'd get an announcement for Noctis & Lux 2 sometime...

[cheywood]

Haley’s said on Twitter he’s writing Noctis and Lux 2 this summer. Presumably it’ll be part of season 4 of Crime next summer.

[Plasmablasts]

Haley’s said on Twitter he’s writing Noctis and Lux 2 this summer. Presumably it’ll be part of season 4 of Crime next summer.

Fingers crossed! That’s the Haley book I’m most looking forward to.

[skylerboodie]

And it appears like BL is pushing another AoS character novel this year - and the second by Haley. Prince Maesa is actually getting a full starring role outside the many shorts and audios. I'm looking forward to this one, but it also means that Haley will likely not have much 40k to come up this year anymore. With two AoS novels releasing this year, and Throne of Light just released, even Guy should be running out of steam for 2022.

It's another appalling written WarCom article, but actually Guy's interview responses appear to clarify that it's mostly a novellisation of the previously released stories rather than a brand new novel, much like how Heresy volume Garro was a bit of a reworking of the previous stories into one that flowed a bit better. Hopefully means it's taken up less of Guy's time anyway

[skylerboodie]

Coming Soon page updated for July:

 

- The Devastation of Baal is getting a HB special edition :) (makes sense, as Dante and Darkness in the Blood already have ones, so just a PB for this middle book ws annoying)

- Danie Ware: The Rose at War omnibus of three novellas and six short stories - apparently in HB!

 

Still no sign of Echoes of Eternity or any of the other recently anounced Heresy books

[DukeLeto69]

Coming Soon page updated for July:

 

- The Devastation of Baal is getting a HB special edition :) (makes sense, as Dante and Darkness in the Blood already have ones, so just a PB for this middle book ws annoying)

- Danie Ware: The Rose at War omnibus of three novellas and six short stories - apparently in HB!

 

Still no sign of Echoes of Eternity or any of the other recently anounced Heresy books

Are those Danie Ware stories good? Very tempted but not seen anyone talk about them in here much?

[cheywood]

Fnac’s got Cthonia’s Reckoning and Lupercal’s War listed for preorder on the 11th of June: https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a17048196/John-French-Cthonia-s-Reckoning#omnsearchpos=11

 

https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a17048205/Graham-McNeill-Lupercal-s-War#omnsearchpos=12

 

Why aren’t they listed on the coming soon page? Why is BL releasing two HH anthologies on the same weekend? As always I’m curious.

Edited May 19, 2022 by cheywood

[skylerboodie]

I'm assuming these Heresy ones will be announced at the same time the Heresy 2.0 game release-date is confirmed, all one big launch weekend

[skylerboodie]

Fnac’s got Cthonia’s Reckoning and Lupercal’s War listed for preorder on the 11th of June: https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a17048196/John-French-Cthonia-s-Reckoning#omnsearchpos=11

 

https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a17048205/Graham-McNeill-Lupercal-s-War#omnsearchpos=12

 

 

 

Good to see the contents confirmed here.

 

Cthonia's Reckoning

Sons of Cthonia by John French

To the Last by Michael F Haspil

The Gangs Beneath by Gary Kloster

The Flesh Harvest by Nicholas Wolf

Traitor's Faith by Noah Van Nguyen

For Hate's Sake by Gav Thorpe

Postulant by Chris Forrester

 

Lupercal's War

- The Last Church by Graham McNeill

- Savage Weapons by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

- Imperfect by Nick Kyme

- The Iron Within by Rob Sanders

- Black Oculus by John French

- Brotherhood of the Moon by Chris Wraight

- Bjorn: Lone Wolf by Chris Wraight

- Bloodhowl by Chris Forrester

- Champion of Oaths by John French

- Child of Night by John French

- Lost Sons by James Swallow

- Immortal Duty by Nick Kyme

- After Desh’ea by Matthew Farrer

- The Laurel of Defiance Guy Haley

- Daemonology by Chris Wraight

- Rebirth by Chris Wraight

- Little Horus by Dan Abnett

- Child of Chaos by Chris Wraight

- Artefacts by Nick Kyme

- The Grey Raven by Gav Thorpe

- Liar’s Due by James Swallow

 

 

 

[Roomsky]

 

Lupercal's War

- The Last Church by Graham McNeill

- Savage Weapons by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

- Imperfect by Nick Kyme

- The Iron Within by Rob Sanders

- Black Oculus by John French

- Brotherhood of the Moon by Chris Wraight

- Bjorn: Lone Wolf by Chris Wraight

- Bloodhowl by Chris Forrester

- Champion of Oaths by John French

- Child of Night by John French

- Lost Sons by James Swallow

- Immortal Duty by Nick Kyme

- After Desh’ea by Matthew Farrer

- The Laurel of Defiance Guy Haley

- Daemonology by Chris Wraight

- Rebirth by Chris Wraight

- Little Horus by Dan Abnett

- Child of Chaos by Chris Wraight

- Artefacts by Nick Kyme

- The Grey Raven by Gav Thorpe

- Liar’s Due by James Swallow

 

Not a bad collection at all, especially for those put off by some of the more mediocre anthologies a few of those great stories found themselves in. Also very happy to see Child of Chaos finally being printed somewhere easily accessible. 

 

On the other hand, if this is supposed to be an anthology for new readers, some of these choices are baffling. Grey Raven? Black Oculus? What is a new fan supposed to get from those?

 

I also wish they'd chosen something other than Liar's Due for the Alpha Legion. I get what Swallow's going for, but planets are more complicated than that and people from rural communities aren't stupid.

[Ubiquitous1984]

The SE for Baal looks great IMO.  Will sit nicely next to my Dante LE!

[nagashnee]

That SE devastation of baal must be mine. Wish they do Dante again too as i missed it. 

[Casual Heresy]

LE Devestation of Baal is going to be hard to resist. 

[cheywood]

Back cover blurb for Rogal Dorn, courtesy of Simon & Schuster:

 

‘As the Great Crusade enters its sixth decade, the fleets and armies of the Emperor spear out into the galaxy to bring the Imperial Truth to thousands of worlds. Expansion has been swift, but must now be tempered with consolidation. Even so, the Emperor demands that the boundaries of the Imperium be pushed further into the unknown. The Master of Mankind tasks four primarchs with the dangerous mission of securing the worlds of the Occluda Noctis – hundreds of star systems on the far side of the Northern Major Warp Storm, whose warp-churning presence casts a shadow on the guiding light of the Astronomican and blinds even the Emperor’s psychic sight. Rogal Dorn leads his Imperial Fists directly into the heart of this cosmic twilight. Isolated, battling a foe the likes of which nobody has encountered before, Dorn must use all of his strategic genius and irresistible will to conquer the darkness in the name of the Emperor.’

 

Sounds quite interesting. Fingers crossed for unknown xenos species.

 

The hardcover’s dated for October 11th, but I’m skeptical that’s accurate since it would imply two Primarch novels coming out within a month of each other.

Edited May 21, 2022 by cheywood

[nagashnee]

That sounds really good, early great crusade with chances to see some yet uknown xenos. Sounds solid.

[DarkChaplain]

Rather than unknown xenos, I think this one'll tackle the first "public" encounter with daemons (possibly linked with Chaos-aligned xenos, which isn't unheard of, considering the Kinebrach), and lead to the Emperor's little chat with some of the Primarchs about the warp.

[nagashnee]

Rather than unknown xenos, I think this one'll tackle the first "public" encounter with daemons (possibly linked with Chaos-aligned xenos, which isn't unheard of, considering the Kinebrach), and lead to the Emperor's little chat with some of the Primarchs about the warp.

I hope not, i hope they just let the crusade be the crusade for once, and not tie it back to chaos. Let the galaxy actually feel big and strange, rather then 'first' chaos contact #75. 

[DarkChaplain]

I mean, it'd still be presumed as a strange xenos threat by the Legions. It'd still require Dorn to think on his feet and reevaluate the way he wages war - against a threat that can't be besieged, no less. It's not in any way necessary to make it about "Chaos" so much as "weird xenos we don't understand the workings of".

 

The book could very well then end on the Emperor pulling Dorn aside to give him the cliffnotes on the warp and the malignity within. We know he gave at least a couple of Primarchs the talk - some more than others. We can also assume that he didn't give them this talk needlessly. By the time he meets Corax, for example, he tells his boy right away, but that assumes that there was a reason to do so already established.

 

It makes sense that we might get a book about the conflict that made it impossible for the Emperor to keep hushing it up entirely - and who best to develop with it than Rogal Dorn, who later becomes the Emperor's Praetorian, the most-trusted son who has proven from the outset to defy the warp, who has ostensibly known for the longest time?

 

So long as it is used as a vehicle to set Dorn up as the best man to fortify against Chaos after Ullanor, I'm happy with it. Moreso than I'd be with a throwaway xenos race that only exists within this one short novel and will never be seen or heard of again. Like the Interex, for example..

[Taliesin]

Back cover blurb for Rogal Dorn, courtesy of Simon & Schuster:

 

‘As the Great Crusade enters its sixth decade, the fleets and armies of the Emperor spear out into the galaxy to bring the Imperial Truth to thousands of worlds. Expansion has been swift, but must now be tempered with consolidation. Even so, the Emperor demands that the boundaries of the Imperium be pushed further into the unknown. The Master of Mankind tasks four primarchs with the dangerous mission of securing the worlds of the Occluda Noctis – hundreds of star systems on the far side of the Northern Major Warp Storm, whose warp-churning presence casts a shadow on the guiding light of the Astronomican and blinds even the Emperor’s psychic sight. Rogal Dorn leads his Imperial Fists directly into the heart of this cosmic twilight. Isolated, battling a foe the likes of which nobody has encountered before, Dorn must use all of his strategic genius and irresistible will to conquer the darkness in the name of the Emperor.’

 

Sounds quite interesting. Fingers crossed for unknown xenos species.

 

The hardcover’s dated for October 11th, but I’m skeptical that’s accurate since it would imply two Primarch novels coming out within a month of each other.

 

That does sound excellent. Hopefully that date is correct. I could not find it on their site though, where did you see it?

Edited May 21, 2022 by Taliesin

[Ubiquitous1984]

Great opportunity as well for some Primarchs interaction if the campaign involves four legions.  

[DarkChaplain]

Looks like a dead week or two. Instead of a BL preview for next Saturday, we got event advertisements.

[sitnam]

 

Coming Soon page updated for July:

 

- The Devastation of Baal is getting a HB special edition :) (makes sense, as Dante and Darkness in the Blood already have ones, so just a PB for this middle book ws annoying)

- Danie Ware: The Rose at War omnibus of three novellas and six short stories - apparently in HB!

 

Still no sign of Echoes of Eternity or any of the other recently anounced Heresy books

Are those Danie Ware stories good? Very tempted but not seen anyone talk about them in here much?

They are okay, nothing terrible but nothing notable either. I'd recommend for hardcore Sorority's fans but not much else. I don't feel like Danie does enough to really make the Bloody Rose feel different from any other SoB order