Upcoming BL Stuff 2025

[Preliminary Bombardment]

Yeah totally, it’s the decision I’d make in his position. 

[Bestkeptsecret]

https://www.fnac.com/a21597728/Warhammer-40-000-Les-Exiles-du-Vide-Robbie-Macniven

 

(Third Carcharodon book going on pre-order on August 6)

 

https://www.fnac.com/a21597727/Warhammer-40-000-Maitre-des-Rites-Rob-Young  (August 27 Ultramarine vs Death Guard book by Rob Young)

[theSpirea]

I was flipping through some older books, reading the afterwords and this one made me chuckle. Oh, how things have changed...

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At that time, Graham McNeill had just handed in the first draft of The Outcast Dead, Gav Thorpe had almost finished writing Deliverance Lost, and Nick Kyme was about to kick off the limited edition novella range with Promethean Sun later that year. ‘I was there,’ I would tell people afterwards, even when afterwards became a time when such things were regularly celebrated, ‘I was there, the day that Nick’s book broke the website…’

Christian served jointly as Nick’s editor along with Lindsey Priestley, as well as commissioning stories for the new audio dramas and limited edition novellas. When Promethean Sun completely sold out in record time (three thousand copies in twenty-four hours, no less!) it was clear what the fans wanted – great books featuring their favourite primarch characters, breaking out of the main Horus Heresy storyline but also inextricably linked to it.

 

 

[DarkChaplain]

I remember how it crashed the website.... It was so silly. You actually had to order via BL's own site, can you believe it?!

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, DarkChaplain said:

I remember how it crashed the website.... It was so silly. You actually had to order via BL's own site, can you believe it?!

 

I remember trying to order my first BL book when I got back into the hobby, the Dark Imperium LE 

 

It was midday during the week, they still had one available, the BL website still crashed on me. Then defaulted to a different language. 

[Tolmeus]

I remember the times, when there had been days or even weeks, when a Limited Edition was on offer on the Black Library site, such as Ferrus Manus primarch book.
The first LE that I bought was Solar War, which was online for about an hour.

Edited yesterday at 07:51 AM by Tolmeus

[Ubiquitous1984]

5 hours ago, Tolmeus said:

I remember the times, when there had been days or even weeks, when a Limited Edition was on offer on the Black Library site, such as Ferrus Manus primarch book.
The first LE that I bought was Solar War, which was online for about an hour.

Solar War was a disaster launch, it killed the BL website and forced the change to selling books on gw website only.  

Edited yesterday at 01:26 PM by Ubiquitous1984

[grailkeeper]

14 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

I remember trying to order my first BL book when I got back into the hobby, the Dark Imperium LE 

 

 

The first BL books I got were from the library. I didnt think they were great.

 

My school library got in the same books when I went to secondary. You could never get any books out of the library as the librarian would take her lunch during lunchtime, so would close up the place then. If you tried to go at any time other than lunchtime she would give out to you for not being in class and make you go back to class. I was a huge reader and I dont think I got to borrow one book in my 6 years there. 

[Felix Antipodes]

Well, I got the HB edition of Era of Ruin this morning without much fuss (in fact it’s still up on the Oz site as I type).  Maybe everyone is waiting for the LE before they brave the website.  Good luck to those brave souls if that’s the case.

[Ubiquitous1984]

1 hour ago, Felix Antipodes said:

Well, I got the HB edition of Era of Ruin this morning without much fuss (in fact it’s still up on the Oz site as I type).  Maybe everyone is waiting for the LE before they brave the website.  Good luck to those brave souls if that’s the case.

I don’t suppose it says who is narrating the audiobook version?

Edited 7 hours ago by Ubiquitous1984

[Malkydel]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

I don’t suppose it says who is narrating the audiobook version?

Audio is narrated by Shogo Miyakita, Colleen Prendergast, and Jonathan Keeble.

[Lord Marshal]

Pretty baffling the Era of Ruin hardback is already sold out. Iirc they had fairly decent stock even for The End And The Death's.

 

Then again, I guess the scalpers saw how much most HH softbacks go for on Ebay these days and wanted in - particularly if they missed the small print about the LE being released on a separate day.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Lord Marshal

[darkhorse0607]

4 hours ago, Malkydel said:

Audio is narrated by Shogo Miyakita, Colleen Prendergast, and Jonathan Keeble.

 

Listening to the preview, I will say Miyakita sounds like he's improved since Red Tithe. Everything sounds smoother than he used to

 

For all the bad and ranting that the siege brought though, I don't know if I'm emotionally ready for some of these stories. I know Homebound is going to bum me out 

[DarkChaplain]

At least the hardback is also available via independent retailers right now. You're not actually chained to the GW store for it.

[Ubiquitous1984]

5 hours ago, Malkydel said:

Audio is narrated by Shogo Miyakita, Colleen Prendergast, and Jonathan Keeble.

Keeble is the name I wanted to see.  Thanks.