Upcoming BL Stuff 2025

[cheywood]

Just now, Urauloth said:

Siege of Terra: The Shattered and the Soulless by Graham McNeill is coming next year - I assume this is a novella about the Thousand Sons. Is this the true final book of the SoT?

It’s just a collection of McNeill’s existing Siege novellas, nothing new in there.

[Ubiquitous1984]

Whhhaaatttt more SoT?  Surely not?!?  
 

edit - indeed it is nothing new.  

Edited July 22 by Ubiquitous1984

[Urauloth]

3 hours ago, cheywood said:

It’s just a collection of McNeill’s existing Siege novellas, nothing new in there.

Aww. Ah well. Here I was hoping the SoT would just last forever.

[Felix Antipodes]

You’ll get your wish.  There is another McNeill novella in the BL file cabinet as well as his almost mythical Horus novel to close out the HH Primarchs series.  There are also some uncollected shorts they could bundle up as well.

The road goes on forever…

[wecanhaveallthree]

I suppose it's worth asking, again, where exactly is Graham McNeill? The man's a well-known and much-loved author in the setting, I'd have thought for sure he'd be involved in... well... anything? 

 

E: I just remembered he's writing for Trench Crusade (and Arcane), a setting which perhaps is a better fit for his 'eavy metal style.

Edited July 23 by wecanhaveallthree
rip ozzy

[theSpirea]

McNeill mentioned he's opened to write more for BL. He mentioned that after he was fired from Riot. No update since then

[skylerboodie]

Every six months, GW releases its latest annual reports or half-year results, and everytime they copy and paste -

 

"Under our Black Library imprint we publish new titles every year, from short stories and audio dramas through to full length novels and audio books."

https://assets.ctfassets.net/ost7hseic9hc/5qDkmHQ0CNK6sLe6s990jL/ee0e6d81c35361803e7ab41b8c01add9/2024-25_accounts_FINAL_-_updated.pdf

 

They stopped making/releasing audio dramas in 2020(!) yet every six months, there it still is, in black and white. GW just doesn't give a f-- about Black Library; the rest of the business gets a proper update every six months, they don't even bother to see what's new in Black Library world. Sigh.

[grailkeeper]

New book coming out by R. S. Wilt. Don't know anything about him, not even what R. and S. stand for.

 

I'm always a bit suspicious of authors who go by initials.

 

Yours- G. R. Ailkeeper

[grailkeeper]

On 7/23/2025 at 6:57 AM, wecanhaveallthree said:

I suppose it's worth asking, again, where exactly is Graham McNeill? The man's a well-known and much-loved author in the setting, I'd have thought for sure he'd be involved in... well... anything? 

 

E: I just remembered he's writing for Trench Crusade (and Arcane), a setting which perhaps is a better fit for his 'eavy metal style.

 

 

Graham McNeilln is writing for trench crusade? A novel or flavour text? I'd love to read it. Are any other BL authors writing for it?

[wecanhaveallthree]

'A story', but not a full novel. Still: I'll take anything from McGOD, and I'm in love with the Trench Crusade setting.

 

Dunno about any other authors, sorry. My hyperfixation extends only to the man himself. 

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, grailkeeper said:

New book coming out by R. S. Wilt. Don't know anything about him, not even what R. and S. stand for.

 

I'm always a bit suspicious of authors who go by initials.

 

Yours- G. R. Ailkeeper

 

I went onto his X (and I still hate that there's so little author info from BL that I have to visit X or LinkedIn to find anything out)

 

He's written two short stories, one Tempestus Scion, one Howling Griffon. Both are "these guys are dropped behind enemy lines" and must do things. It sounds like from the description Final Deployment might follow the same pattern, but I dunno. Maybe it'll be good? 

[darkhorse0607]

1 hour ago, grailkeeper said:

New book coming out by R. S. Wilt. Don't know anything about him, not even what R. and S. stand for.

 

I'm always a bit suspicious of authors who go by initials.

 

Yours- G. R. Ailkeeper

 

I went onto his X (and I still hate that there's so little author info from BL that I have to visit X or LinkedIn to find anything out)

 

He's written two short stories, one Tempestus Scion, one Howling Griffon. Both are "these guys are dropped behind enemy lines" and must do things. It sounds like from the description Final Deployment might follow the same pattern, but I dunno. Maybe it'll be good? 

 

*also, don't really know anything about Trench Crusade, but I remember folks talking about Thorpe writing something as one of the stretch goals for the kickstarter and Andy Chambers being involved somehow too

[Urauloth]

McNeill is such a natural fit for Trench Crusade, I think he'll be happy there. I'd be very happy to see him come back and do something else for BL though, here's hoping.

[LemartesTheLost]

2 hours ago, darkhorse0607 said:

 

I went onto his X (and I still hate that there's so little author info from BL that I have to visit X or LinkedIn to find anything out)

 

He's written two short stories, one Tempestus Scion, one Howling Griffon. Both are "these guys are dropped behind enemy lines" and must do things. It sounds like from the description Final Deployment might follow the same pattern, but I dunno. Maybe it'll be good? 

 

*also, don't really know anything about Trench Crusade, but I remember folks talking about Thorpe writing something as one of the stretch goals for the kickstarter and Andy Chambers being involved somehow too

The Guns of Enth, his Howling Griffon short, I thought was pretty swell. An 8 or 9/10 by my reckoning. I haven’t read his Scion work but if Guns was anything to go by, I’ll probably be picking this up.