Upcoming BL Stuff - 2022

[skylerboodie]

4 hours ago, cheywood said:

They already revealed that in an article a few months ago. 

They revealed the standard edition, but pretty sure they haven't shown the Sanguinius limited edition box art yet

[cheywood]

18 minutes ago, skylerboodie said:

They revealed the standard edition, but pretty sure they haven't shown the Sanguinius limited edition box art yet

Entirely plausible they’ll do an article on that, but I’m skeptical they’d tease a cover for an already announced book as a ‘reveal’ in the Sunday preview.
 
My guess is Interceptor City, another Novella Series, or a horror novel.

[skylerboodie]

I reckon Dawn of Fire Book 5 is surely due a reveal by now

[Ubiquitous1984]

We’re also due a HH character series book, or at the very least a reveal of what it will be.  

Surely we’re due a Malcador book before he ends up meeting his end in SoT book 8?

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

"Dawn of Fire 5: Still Dark and Smokey, But We're Getting There (We Swear)"

[lightinfa]

2 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

We’re also due a HH character series book, or at the very least a reveal of what it will be.  

Surely we’re due a Malcador book before he ends up meeting his end in SoT book 8?

 

Oh wow I didn't realize how much I needed a Malcador character book.

[System Sound]

Don't know how much there could be written about him, but Arkham Land book would be interesting. Especially dealing with the archeotech.

[Ubiquitous1984]

1 hour ago, System Sound said:

Don't know how much there could be written about him, but Arkham Land book would be interesting. Especially dealing with the archeotech.

Mars in general is sadly neglected in 30k.  There are so many themes, plots and interesting characters that have not been fleshed out.  I'm re-listening to MoM at the moment and it is making me yearn for more Martian content.  

Edited September 20, 2022 by Ubiquitous1984

[Taliesin]

Like the mythical Mars Black Book that sadly never came.

[Nagashsnee]

3 hours ago, Taliesin said:

Like the mythical Mars Black Book that sadly never came.

Mech have been burned twice, the 30k Mars Black Book and the 40K Imperial armor fires of cyraxes book, that got as far as being previewed model and book wise and still got axed. 

Whats worse 30k wise is that this is the birth of both the dark mech and the adeptus mechanicus, and yet we have seen so very very very little of both. 

[Ubiquitous1984]

22 minutes ago, Nagashsnee said:

Mech have been burned twice, the 30k Mars Black Book and the 40K Imperial armor fires of cyraxes book, that got as far as being previewed model and book wise and still got axed. 

Whats worse 30k wise is that this is the birth of both the dark mech and the adeptus mechanicus, and yet we have seen so very very very little of both. 

I've recently re-listened to Mechanicum, and it struck me how little of the founding of the DM is featured.  It feels like there is so much more to delve into.  

[Nagashsnee]

17 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

I've recently re-listened to Mechanicum, and it struck me how little of the founding of the DM is featured.  It feels like there is so much more to delve into.  

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I know, Kelbor Hal could and should have been a character that we meet and see transform, but the dark/true mechanicum went from 0-100 on chaos with very very little work done instead. Still got to write Vulkan HH book xxi i guess. 

 

I would have love a book that saw the changes made on mars/else where thru the eyes of a well meaning magos who sides with Kelbor, who never actually goes 'evil' chaos but instead just follows the science on this whole new realm and its possibilities.  See the potential and decides that if the big E hid this from them then he cant possible be the 'one'.  Instead of straight to stick deamon into X thing straight away. 

Edited September 21, 2022 by Nagashsnee

[Ubiquitous1984]

The Sunday Preview suggested that there will be some BL reveals this week.  I wonder if that'll be in the weekly BL update (which IIRC, is usually at 2pm BST on a Wednesday)~?

 

edit - the announcement was two more AoS books.  

Edited September 21, 2022 by Ubiquitous1984

[Taliesin]

23 hours ago, Nagashsnee said:

Mech have been burned twice, the 30k Mars Black Book and the 40K Imperial armor fires of cyraxes book, that got as far as being previewed model and book wise and still got axed. 

Whats worse 30k wise is that this is the birth of both the dark mech and the adeptus mechanicus, and yet we have seen so very very very little of both. 

The one campaign book that I really wanted them to publish was Fires of Cyraxus. I saw pics of all the stuff they did for it on the Open Days, twice. Still the saddest of all cancelled projects, and especially since it was 90% done as we were told on the Open day.

Edited September 21, 2022 by Taliesin

[Ubiquitous1984]

34 minutes ago, Taliesin said:

The one campaign book that I really wanted them to publish was Fires of Cyraxus. I saw pics of all the stuff they did for it on the Open Days, twice. Still the saddest of all cancelled projects, and especially since it was 90% done as we were told on the Open day.

Why do projects like that get cancelled?  

[System Sound]

3 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

The Sunday Preview suggested that there will be some BL reveals this week.  I wonder if that'll be in the weekly BL update (which IIRC, is usually at 2pm BST on a Wednesday)~?

 

edit - the announcement was two more AoS books.  

Why did I even expect anything else?

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

8 minutes ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

Why do projects like that get cancelled?  

My understanding is that it was a combo of needing to take the author(s) off the book to fill the void elsewhere after Alan Bligh died and by the time anyone could have reasonably dedicated the time needed to finish the book, it would have needed a complete overhaul in order to work with 8th Edition, which had come out in the interim.

[theSpirea]

4 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

The Sunday Preview suggested that there will be some BL reveals this week.  I wonder if that'll be in the weekly BL update (which IIRC, is usually at 2pm BST on a Wednesday)~?

 

edit - the announcement was two more AoS books.  

Definitely more excited about these two AoS novels than the previously announced 3 40K ones. It seems Strachan is challenging Haley in who can write faster.

[Taliesin]

Best line in the article:

 

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[Noserenda]

4 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

Why do projects like that get cancelled?  

They have as much admitted that all the writing was done, there wasnt any capability to change the rules to 8th though, same as the Talons of the Emperor book, though an internet campaign got the Custodes released at least.

[DarkChaplain]

4 hours ago, theSpirea said:

Definitely more excited about these two AoS novels than the previously announced 3 40K ones. It seems Strachan is challenging Haley in who can write faster.

Same here. I'm actually excited to see what Strachan can bring to the table with Vandus Hammerhand - who spearheaded the Realmgate Wars saga in the first few books, but then... dropped off the narrative entirely, being supplanted by characters with newer kits. Vandus was written by Wraight first, then Kyme, then Haley iirc, but always in novellas. This'll be the first full novel featuring him, as far as I'm aware.

....and come on, the other is a novel on GROMBRINDAL of all characters. THE White Dwarf. We all know the magazine, and he's actually getting some showtime, from Guymer, who has written dwarves well over the years. I'm already fascinated by the potential of a story about the seemingly immortal WD who has seen it all. This should be fun.

I suppose I'd have been more excited about Void King if it had prominently featured the Rogue Trader from the Dawn of Fire novels / Dark Imperium, and/or Fabian Guelphrain, since the quest of RTs crossing over the Great Rift is basically the same anyway. We know Guilliman sent a lot of RTs out to attempt it, but I'd have liked it to springboard off DoF more directly than the blurb on WarCom makes me believe it'll be.

Shadowsun is another Kelly Tau novel, and he's failed to make Shadowsun in any way interesting, engaging or believable in numerous works by now.

Harrowmaster should be fun, going by Brooks' track record, especially with the Alpha Legion, so that's got me interested, although the premise hasn't caught me yet.

Wrath of the Lost is nice to see as another Flesh Tearers work outside of Smillie's works, but the description has done little to excite me.

Which is actually making me realize: WarCom hasn't provided the back cover blurb for ANY of the 4 recently announced 40k works like they did for these two AoS books or The End and the Death Part 1. Why is that? It's silly.

[DarkChaplain]

A big Humble Audio Bundle is live

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/audio-tales-from-indomitus-crusade-2022-black-library-books

~20 bucks get you:

• The Dark Imperium Trilogy
• Eye of Night & Hand of Darkness Audio Dramas
• Watchers of the Throne 1&2
• Vaults of Terra 1&2
• Dawn of Fire 1-3
• Our Martyred Lady (4 CD Box Set Audio Drama)
• Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint
• Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work
• Indomitus
• Knights of Macragge
• Uriel Ventris: The Swords of Calth
• The Devastation of Baal
• Cadia Stands

Frankly, this is an absolute no-brainer. There's a bunch of quality series and novels in there, and it's covering almost all the major Post-Rift novels, in particular the main arcs.

[Ubiquitous1984]

More of the audio backlog is being tackled!  Blood of Asaheim Is coming next week.  I’ve said it many times now but it delights me how BL keep releasing old classics on audio.  

[aa.logan]

*AND* more Warhammer Crime. I know they’re only shorts, but I’m just past halfway in the Vorbis Conspiracy and it reminds me how well the format really suits this imprint.

Echoes of Eternity has, unexpectedly, been pushed even further down my TBR pile…

[DarkChaplain]

Finally Blood of Asaheim. Here's hoping Stormcaller won't be too far behind, considering Helwinter Gate has been out for like a year.

Warhammer Crime Week is great news! I was seriously disappointed by the way they tackled the audiobook for Vorbis Conspiracy, though. No VC-Intro or outro, just the individual stories. Bad showing for a themed anthology - you should at least acknowledge that they all form a greater whole. They do this for other anthologies, so why not here?

Bummed that this set of shorts won't feature Marc Collins either, though. Drask needs to return asap! But a double-feature from Mitchel Scanlon should be interesting.

Also cool to see the 5th Uriel Ventris audiobook hitting at last. That's one I never read myself.

On the side: I haven't finished Echoes yet either. It's been pushed aside by various other books lately, including the Vorbis Conspiracy, some comfort reads and a re-read of All Quiet on the Western Front. Somehow, the flashback sections threw me off, because they are that much of a detour from the Siege - even if they're good reading regardless.