New Black Library Pre-orders: Dawn of Fire, Dominion Genesis and Salamanders Omnibus

[ZeroWolf]

From this weeks forthcoming pre-orders article, we're getting two brand new 40k novels and one Omnibus (as well as some foreign language reprints).

 

Dawn of Fire: Hand of Abaddon

 

The penultimate book is getting a special edition which looks nifty:

 

"The eighth and penultimate instalment in the Dawn of Fire series is here. The scheme of the notorious Hand of Abaddon is slowly but surely bringing a mysterious plan to fruition, while other agents of Chaos seek out an ancient evil that could decide the outcome of the entire war. Nick Kyme’s Hand of Abaddon will be available in a gorgeous special edition featuring a casebound cover, gold ribbon bookmark, and internal art spreads. Each copy is signed by the author, and numbers are strictly limited."

 

It'll also be available in a normal edition:

 

"This new adventure is also available in standard paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats as the war between the Imperium and Chaos puts everyone on a monstrous collision course."

 

Along with German and French versions:

 

The Mechanicus get a new novel in the form of Dominion Genesis:

"Gryphonne IV was once one of the greatest Forge Worlds, but the inexorable advance of Hive Fleet Leviathan has left a lifeless husk populated by a handful of listless Magi. Explorator Talin Sherax refuses to leave the planet to ruin, and upon learning of a mysterious relic that has the power to restore the world to its peak potential, she sets off on a journey that threatens to draw her over the threshold of heresy. Dominion Genesis by Jonathan D Beer will be available to pre-order in hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats next week."

 

Lastly, they're collecting several Salamanders short stories by Nick Kyme:

"The Salamanders Da’kir and Tsu’gan are battle-brothers and fierce rivals, but their paths diverge as they are sent to face trials that will push them to their limits and beyond, before fate conspires to draw them back together for a confrontation that will decide the future of the Salamanders Chapter. Lords of Nocturne is an omnibus of Nick Kyme’s tales, collecting Salamander, Firedrake, Nocturne, and the anthology Tome of Fire in paperback and eBook editions."

 

(This one interests me the most, how good are these?)

Edited September 1 by ZeroWolf
Forgot link

[grailkeeper]

Really handy that they've collected a bunch of Nick Kyme stories together as it allows me to not read them more efficently. 

[Daylight]

I remember Salamander being one of the first several 40K books I read - snagged the book for something to read on a plane and enjoyed it. I might have to pick up the omnibus and give the series a re-read.

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

Dawn of Fire has been such a disappointment to date that I almost don't mind Kyme penning the penultimate novel while better writers concentrate on something else. Even if that something else is a Warhammer Fantasy novel I'll never read or something outside of Black Library altogether.

 

I'm sure Haley will write the final wrap-up story and it will be decent. This book I don't expect anything more than a checklist in prose.

[Nagashsnee]

 

 

I'm sure Haley will write the final wrap-up story and it will be decent. This book I don't expect anything more than a checklist in prose.

Having read them all, I am struggling to remember any overarching plot to wrap up.

 

Chaos evil, they have a plan, a evil plan, a plan of evil, evil will this plan be, and evil men will execute the plan of evil, all shall gaze on the truly evil nature of the plan and weep...

 

This book doesn't have to set up the ending of a series wide meta plot, it has to introduce it. Except of course the plan...the evil plan.

 

And since according to this now the evil plan will decide the war...and the war isn't decided...yeah. 

 

Shout out to sea of souls tho, great stand alone book!

Edited September 1 by Nagashsnee

[lansalt]

I haven't read the 40k salamander books. Are they decent, or are they like... you know, the HH salamander stories?

[grailkeeper]

 

I haven't read the 40k salamander books. Are they decent, or are they like... you know, the HH salamander stories?

Same author but less experienced, so... worse?

[phandaal]

For some reason, every new book with a Votann on the cover has them as clean-faced as the day they came out of the crucible. Would it kill them to give us ONE beard? Even a mustache would do at this point.

[ZeroWolf]

 

For some reason, every new book with a Votann on the cover has them as clean-faced as the day they came out of the crucible. Would it kill them to give us ONE beard? Even a mustache would do at this point.

Not going to lie, at a quick glance u thought it was an Ultramarine

[phandaal]

 

Not going to lie, at a quick glance u thought it was an Ultramarine

 

Even the Ultramarine has a five o'clock shadow! GW artists are trying to get into the Great Book of Grudges.

[Marshal Rohr]

Cautiously optimistic for the Gryphonne novel since Gryphonne is my heresy Taghmata 

[Emperor Ming]

Abaddons lost his hand this time

 

Better than both arms I suppose

[Scribe]

 

For some reason, every new book with a Votann on the cover has them as clean-faced as the day they came out of the crucible. Would it kill them to give us ONE beard? Even a mustache would do at this point.

 

Going overboard on the 'I know, lets subvert expectation!' trying to be clever.

[Gamiel]

 

For some reason, every new book with a Votann on the cover has them as clean-faced as the day they came out of the crucible. Would it kill them to give us ONE beard? Even a mustache would do at this point.

Why this obsession with fascial hair? I see no complains about them not singing or the lack of stocking caps who are both classic dwarf features. And there have pop-culturally been lots of dwarfs that lack facial hair.

[grailkeeper]

 

Why this obsession with fascial hair? I see no complains about them not singing or the lack of stocking caps who are both classic dwarf features. And there have pop-culturally been lots of dwarfs that lack facial hair.

We can't actually hear the cover, so they might be singing.

Edited September 2 by grailkeeper

[phandaal]

 

Why this obsession with fascial hair? I see no complains about them not singing or the lack of stocking caps who are both classic dwarf features. And there have pop-culturally been lots of dwarfs that lack facial hair.

 

Why expect dwarves to be presented with facial hair? Aw, gee, I dunno! 

 

Glad it appeals to the Snow White megafans out there though. 

[SalamandersBro]

Excited for more Dawn of Fire. I am in agreement that the plots of each book have been fuzzy and not really connected which is a little frustrating. 

[Gamiel]

 

Why expect dwarves to be presented with facial hair? Aw, gee, I dunno! 

WHFB maybe, but since many of the 40k counterparts to the fantasy races have notable differences from their WHFB do I find it strange that people focus on the idea of some kind of great need for facial hair for the 40k variants of dwarfs.

 

 

Glad it appeals to the Snow White megafans out there though. 

Dwarfs are singers in old Nordic mythology, and in Tolkien also.

 

And they also have stocking caps in Bakshi's LotR, and both the comic and animated version of The Hobbit, among other places.

 

 

 

Edited September 2 by Gamiel

[Kurgan the Lurker]

For those that are new here or at least new since  these times ended.. Nick Kyme, ADB, Gav Thorpe and other authors used to hang around these parts.

 

Techmarine Argos and Librarian Pyriel and based (in part) on members from here at the B&C.

 

[Magos Takatus]

I'm cautiously optimistic about the Mechanicus one. I might get it as an audiobook and listen to it on my daily walks.

[beefeb]

I gave up on the dawn of fire at the 6th one i think.  1st was fun, but their quality decreased rapidly thereafter and I gave up even trying.  I lost all interest and couldnt even finish the 6th....like many of the recent Black Library releases, its quantity of quality....gone is the heyday of Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Ventris and Ragnar chronicles.  Instead we get this mass produced and often lore innacurate stuff....nothing personal against the author....some of his stuff is great, but i think its likely down to the brief they get from GW and the direction they are forced in writers meetings etc.   Im sure some will like it though, so Im happy for them.  As a previous poster said....I didnt realise there was an over arching story across the series, they seem more like stand alone novels with a generic non specific thread through them like any GW novel set in the 40K universe.

[Taliesin]

I managed to get a copy of Dominion Genesis through a 3rd party, curious about that. Ordered a paperback of Genefather to go with it, Mechanicum Max.