System Sound Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 18 hours ago, DarkChaplain said: ....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. I sense some irony in there somewhere... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alby the Slayer Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 I was able just now to preorder the LE Silent King. I know this series is not appreciated but I have all LE of it and I was sweating with the damn preorder and the mobile site which, at least for me , it's trash. I didn't read one book of this series so now I will start it, finally. Urauloth, Casual Heresy, skylerboodie and 2 others 3 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual Heresy Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Same. @Alby the Slayer. Glad to complete the collection, and now I might actually finish the last four books! I'd also forgotten Paragon of Faith was on order to day as well so grabbed that too. I think I'm right in saying this is the first printed anthology with more female authors than men? BL has it's issues but I'm glad to see broader diversity in amongst the authors. Alby the Slayer 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krelious Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 I was having a heart attack trying to buy the LE book, was the last one for my collection and for some reason my browser wasnt working properly on the GW site so i switched to Edge and lo and behold it worked. Keuvaul 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krelious Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 8 hours ago, Alby the Slayer said: I was able just now to preorder the LE Silent King. I know this series is not appreciated but I have all LE of it and I was sweating with the damn preorder and the mobile site which, at least for me , it's trash. I didn't read one book of this series so now I will start it, finally. I'm on book 6 and I can say including book 6 theres only 3 good books so far. 6 has largely been unreadable and boring to the point that im thinking of skipping it. theSpirea 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Nord in Gravis Armour Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 3 hours ago, Krelious said: I'm on book 6 and I can say including book 6 theres only 3 good books so far. 6 has largely been unreadable and boring to the point that im thinking of skipping it. As someone who's been wildly disappointed by the series overall, I'd recommend sticking with book 6 if only because otherwise it'll wind up being the one chunk you haven't read. The next two books are pretty essential, for completely opposite reasons: Book 7 is only tangentially related to the overall story, but it's a great 40K novel. Book 8 is pedestrian storytelling, but it's locked in to the overall narrative. It's almost entirely made up of stuff that Haley either wanted to use as a springboard for his wrap-up in Book 9, or payoffs to plotlines and character arcs that he didn't want to bother with in the final book at all. Personally, I will be reading The Silent King, but it could easily be next year before I read another Indomitus Era Black Library story. About the only thing I'm looking forward to is Wraight's next move in the Watchers series or a sequel to Vaults and either of those could still be years away, if they happen at all. On top of that, I'm sure I'll read the novelization tie-in to the 11th-Edition launch but only to see if it can somehow limbo under the low bar set by the last couple of edition tie-ins. cheywood 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krelious Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 21 hours ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said: As someone who's been wildly disappointed by the series overall, I'd recommend sticking with book 6 if only because otherwise it'll wind up being the one chunk you haven't read. The next two books are pretty essential, for completely opposite reasons: Book 7 is only tangentially related to the overall story, but it's a great 40K novel. Book 8 is pedestrian storytelling, but it's locked in to the overall narrative. It's almost entirely made up of stuff that Haley either wanted to use as a springboard for his wrap-up in Book 9, or payoffs to plotlines and character arcs that he didn't want to bother with in the final book at all. Personally, I will be reading The Silent King, but it could easily be next year before I read another Indomitus Era Black Library story. About the only thing I'm looking forward to is Wraight's next move in the Watchers series or a sequel to Vaults and either of those could still be years away, if they happen at all. On top of that, I'm sure I'll read the novelization tie-in to the 11th-Edition launch but only to see if it can somehow limbo under the low bar set by the last couple of edition tie-ins. Its honestly one of the most boring novels ive ever tried reading. I think in most novels crap with Sisters and Black Templars is almost always boring. Its almost like they created a fanatic religion based around vagaries in order to not offend anyone by not giving out specifics and what comes across is rather bland because theres no weight or connection to the characters. The Horus Heresy really means something because you can see whats at stake and the sense of betrayal. Like who are these characters? I dont really care about any of them. I mean I picked up a hardback copy of Flight of the Eisenstein and that book is worlds better than Martyr's Tomb. Ubiquitous1984 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6118970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 The season of famine or feast continues at BL… nothing at all releasing next week (again). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 They sure haven't learned how to pace their releases, that's for sure. They just dropped two new novels and three audiobooks this weekend, have the Dawn of Fire finale, another new anthology, another audiobook on top and the re-issue of the Ravenor Omnibus all up for preorder, with The Silent King having been delayed to hell and back, and then follow that up with a dead week. Go figure. Felix Antipodes and Ubiquitous1984 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 I mean on the bright side Void Exile is pretty good so far. The Mechanicus is giving me a few chuckles with titles like the "Chrome Eminence" or whatever his title is and freaking out over a 1% drop in efficiency Definitely better so far than Red Tithe and Outer Dark Roomsky, Preliminary Bombardment, Tolmeus and 1 other 1 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 14 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said: I mean on the bright side Void Exile is pretty good so far. The Mechanicus is giving me a few chuckles with titles like the "Chrome Eminence" or whatever his title is and freaking out over a 1% drop in efficiency Definitely better so far than Red Tithe and Outer Dark That’s good to hear. Oaths of Damnation, in my opinion, was MacNiven’s weakest work. Glad he’s back on form. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Nord in Gravis Armour Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 On 6/29/2025 at 11:39 AM, Krelious said: Its honestly one of the most boring novels ive ever tried reading. I think in most novels crap with Sisters and Black Templars is almost always boring. Its almost like they created a fanatic religion based around vagaries in order to not offend anyone by not giving out specifics and what comes across is rather bland because theres no weight or connection to the characters. The Horus Heresy really means something because you can see whats at stake and the sense of betrayal. Like who are these characters? I dont really care about any of them. I mean I picked up a hardback copy of Flight of the Eisenstein and that book is worlds better than Martyr's Tomb. You're not wrong. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted July 4 Share Posted July 4 Just an FYI, in the teaser video for the July 18th preview show they said that there would be "books," up to you folks to determine if you want to hold out hope that books means novels, or books mean campaign books/codices Ubiquitous1984, Taliesin and LemartesTheLost 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krelious Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 Maybe we will get news when Era of Ruin LE will be actually released. I'm not interested in having two copies of the same book. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
System Sound Posted July 5 Share Posted July 5 23 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said: Just an FYI, in the teaser video for the July 18th preview show they said that there would be "books," up to you folks to determine if you want to hold out hope that books means novels, or books mean campaign books/codices Pretty sure it's codecies, other wise they would say it's from BL or something... Would love to be wrong of course cheywood, Felix Antipodes and LemartesTheLost 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dornfist Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 (edited) On 6/11/2025 at 7:57 AM, wecanhaveallthree said: Please, please, please - I don't want ADB. I don't want Abnett. I want McNeill, or at the very least French, to put some kind of capstone on the utter weirdness that has informed all the Horus guff through the Heresy. I don't want it to be a sideshow to Abaddon. It is, to my mind, a core of Horus' theming, the sheer, utter strangeness surrounding so many parts of his arc through the Heresy. We still don't know about the original trip to Molech. We still don't know about all the weird Horus visions. We obviously have no freaking idea what was going on in Lupus Daemonis. I need to know. I've been waiting to know for years. Years! Surely it's 'who is the Primarch of the Blood Ravens'! Agreed! Lupus Daemonis was soooo interesting! I really want them to announce the Horus novel before the Scouring series... Edited July 6 by Dornfist Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dornfist Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 On 6/12/2025 at 6:19 PM, grailkeeper said: I said it at the time, and I stand by it noe, that those books were packed with self indulgent filler. They really needed to be edited down. I can't remember anything of any significance that occurred in the second book. That's before we gwt to the samaragdine prose. Even if it was a corporate cash grab to get more books our and to milk fans, the editors were still asleep at the wheel. Come now! What about those AMAZING "Fragments" sections that added so much to the main plot-lines?!? What about that AWESOME Samus comeback? What about all those fancy words??? What about- Okay, okay, I will stop now lol. I agree with you. I seriously wonder how the BL editing process goes, because the way they did End and the Death...so much filler should have been removed and it would have slapped so much better! System Sound 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylerboodie Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 I liked the fragments. Urauloth and Dornfist 1 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dornfist Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 6 hours ago, skylerboodie said: I liked the fragments. Fair and I respect that. I didn't particularly care about them, so I throw shade at them every now and then. skylerboodie 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 Amazing. Another dead week to follow the last. That is, unless you want to read the reprint of the middle section of a novel that overstayed its welcome in 2024. Felix Antipodes 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkhorse0607 Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 Not true. The map and other map have words on them so they count as Black Library releases Krelious and Casual Heresy 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 We’ll have Master of Rites soon enough if Fnac’s to be believed. Although I’m uncertain who exactly it’s for. Ferren was a bland character in Dawn of Fire, and we’ve already seen more than enough coverage of the Plague Wars. Roomsky, LemartesTheLost, OpossumStrong and 2 others 3 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6119924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Nord in Gravis Armour Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 (edited) 18 hours ago, cheywood said: We’ll have Master of Rites soon enough if Fnac’s to be believed. Although I’m uncertain who exactly it’s for. Ferren was a bland character in Dawn of Fire, and we’ve already seen more than enough coverage of the Plague Wars. It's for the people who aren't actually interested in reading it, but who need it to exist so that they can walk into a store, take a selfie with it, and then place it back on the shelf and walk out. Edited July 7 by Lord Nord in Gravis Armour cheywood 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6120041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual Heresy Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 (edited) Not sure if any of these have come up already but a possible new title and new omnibus showing up on Amazon/Simon and Schuster. Death and Duty | Book by Steve Lyons | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Seems to be a new anthology or omnibus but no details yet on contents The Twice Dead King: The Omnibus (Warhammer 40,000): Amazon.co.uk: Crowley, Nate: 9781804076965: Books Twice Dead King Omnibus. Looks like it's the same as the last LE version so includes the duology, Severed and the three shorts by Nate. And if any one hasn't got it yet, there's a hefty discount on The Warhammer 40,000 Ultimate Guide for Prime Day. Warhammer 40,000 The Ultimate Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Thorpe, Gavin, Haley, Guy: 9780241661314: Books Edited July 8 by Casual Heresy Urauloth, Roomsky, LemartesTheLost and 2 others 1 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6120228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grailkeeper Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 1 hour ago, Casual Heresy said: And if any one hasn't got it yet, there's a hefty discount on The Warhammer 40,000 Ultimate Guide for Prime Day. Warhammer 40,000 The Ultimate Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Thorpe, Gavin, Haley, Guy: 9780241661314: Books Worth getting? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/384814-upcoming-bl-stuff-2025/page/25/#findComment-6120241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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