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[grailkeeper]

The heresy always had a defined end point. The scouring doesn't, nor does it have anything in particular to build to unless they plan to cover everything up to the present setting.

 

[Taliesin]

I also wonder when we might see an announcement on what Nate Crowley has been doing the last few years for BL, if anything.

His work was very well received and then....crickets.

[darkhorse0607]

Only Black Library release for next week is the 13th Legion Audiobook

 

Now go back to battering down the hatches for the inevitable 42 page long Era of Ruin thread

[Ubiquitous1984]

Hopefully we get Silent King soon.  I’m really looking forward to that book!

[Bestkeptsecret]

https://amzn.eu/d/9d4O3JY

 

Did it already release for Germany?

[OpossumStrong]

52 minutes ago, Bestkeptsecret said:

https://amzn.eu/d/9d4O3JY

 

Did it already release for Germany?

Probably not updated because it was rescheduled for July 15. 

[Felix Antipodes]

10 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

The heresy always had a defined end point. The scouring doesn't, nor does it have anything in particular to build to unless they plan to cover everything up to the present setting.

 

 

It depends on how you look at it.  In my mind the shuttering of the traitor legions into the Eye of Terror is probably the Scouring endpoint, leading to the era of (relative) peace leading up to the War of the Beast.  You could also use the death/disappearance of the last Primarch as the end of that era.

The biggest potential seller though - and most controversial- will be the Second Founding and if they are crazy enough to name a finite list of Chapters.

[Tolmeus]

8 hours ago, Bestkeptsecret said:

Did it already release for Germany?

Yep, months ago. Could have bought it a couple of times already, but I also wait for the English edition.

[byrd9999]

On 6/15/2025 at 2:43 PM, Taliesin said:

I also wonder when we might see an announcement on what Nate Crowley has been doing the last few years for BL, if anything.

His work was very well received and then....crickets.

 

He has submitted a new novel to BL, relatively recently, not sure where it is in the system beyond that though. Rewrites, editor's notes, awaiting a Special Edition release slot, who knows?

[grailkeeper]

3 minutes ago, byrd9999 said:

 

He has submitted a new novel to BL, relatively recently, not sure where it is in the system beyond that though. Rewrites, editor's notes, awaiting a Special Edition release slot, who knows?

Where did you hear that?

[theSpirea]

I'm curious on how many novels BL is sitting, because the time just isn't right

[Lord Marshal]

Re-release of Lords of Silence, specifically an annotated edition.

 

 

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The annotated and illustrated edition of The Lords of Silence is packed full of new content that breathes further life into an already immersive story, as Chris muses on the whats and whys of his novel and how he crafted such an engaging story around ostensibly villainous characters. 

 

The new illustrations that pockmark the novel are wonderfully evocative representations of the Death Guard and sometimes quite difficult to look at, which is quite the compliment for a servant of Nurgle. Just wait until you see the plague-infested void ship on page 190 – absolutely horrifying.

 

Edited June 19 by Lord Marshal

[theSpirea]

YES, this is how you do SEs, extra content and not *cuss* ribbon bookmark. Give me art, author's notes, editor's notes, etc

 

LoS LE is my favorite BL book I have, can't wait to get this one.

[darkhorse0607]

This is the first LE/SE in a while that I would actually be interested in getting. Everything from the cover to the illustrations and authors notes look great

 

 

 

 

 

*edit

 

wait, are we talking about the same book here WHC?

 

"The story follows the eponymous Death Guard warband as they seek to rejoin Mortarion after being dumped into unknown space by the rigours of the Great Rift’s birth. Yet for all their power and influence, they are not free from the legacies of their past, and something from the depths of the Eye of Terror is hot on their trail."

Edited June 19 by darkhorse0607

[Casual Heresy]

Based on people's praise, Lords of Silence is on the list of 'books I regret not buying at the time' so may pick this up if funds allow.

[Ubiquitous1984]

Those illustrations look amazing!  More of this please BL.  In fact, why can't we have them with every book?!

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

Apparently, the finale of something called the Dawn of Fire series is up for pre-order on Saturday.

 

Must not be a big deal or someone would have mentioned it before me.

[DarkChaplain]

Archaon: Everchosen audiobook, fyeah!

 

....that being said, do you think they remember that it's been, like, over 18 months since they published the first Malus Darkblade novel in audio? Would be nice to be able to buy the second, third, fourth and fifth at long last, BL.

[OpossumStrong]

1 hour ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

Apparently, the finale of something called the Dawn of Fire series is up for pre-order on Saturday.

 

Must not be a big deal or someone would have mentioned it before me.

Well tbh I'm not even remotely excited, I'll buy it just to have all the LE's...and read it in the future. 

[theSpirea]

1 hour ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

Apparently, the finale of something called the Dawn of Fire series is up for pre-order on Saturday.

 

Must not be a big deal or someone would have mentioned it before me.

I couldn't care less about this series anymore. And I was a big fan when it started, heck, I even liked The Wolftime. But the fifth and sixth books completely killed it for me.

The worst thing about the whole DoF debacle is that not many people will read Sea of Souls, because many gave up on the series before getting that far.

[LemartesTheLost]

Now that the release of The Silent King imminent, one has to wonder how long it is until BL announces the next 40k series. I hope y'all are ready for DoF2: Road to Baal. Between The Scouring and (most likely) DoF2, it would make sense why we've seen a slump in releases from the senior stable members + ADB stepping back.

[Ubiquitous1984]

I'd be happy to see them completely ditch these multi-author, 9+ book series.  In their place I'd prefer to see a concerted effort into putting together quality single-author trilogies.  BL is at its best when people like Wraight, ABD, Josh, Dan etc are putting out standalone trilogies that explore a little part of the wider universe.  

[DukeLeto69]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

I'd be happy to see them completely ditch these multi-author, 9+ book series.  In their place I'd prefer to see a concerted effort into putting together quality single-author trilogies.  BL is at its best when people like Wraight, ABD, Josh, Dan etc are putting out standalone trilogies that explore a little part of the wider universe.  

I agree. BL have had 20 years to figure out how to execute long running multi-author series, you know PLAN IT OUT WITH A ROADMAP AND SPECIFIC PLOT POINTS TO HIT but no, just go mess around in the sandpit pretending it is a coherent series. 
 

BL (and GW) do settings, pretty well. So a HH setting and a 40k setting in a BIG galaxy, works fine!

 

I truly hope if they ever do decide to do the Age of Apostasy that it is a setting rather than an attempt at a sequential series! 

Edited June 23 by DukeLeto69

[Urauloth]

On 6/22/2025 at 6:28 PM, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

Must not be a big deal or someone would have mentioned it before me.

I look at HamCom pretty often and I completely missed wherever they announced this. That's not great marketing, since I'm one of the 3 people left in the world who's actually still kind of excited about Dawn of Fire.

[DarkChaplain]

....leave it to WarCom to post an article about Guy Haley talking about The Silent King.... and forget to un-private the embedded Youtube video Haley talks about it in.