My roll has slowed! I've barely read much at all in July, August, and September of this year. It took me ages to finish off Savage Scars, a novel of the White Scars chapter of the Space Marines of Warhammer 40,000. A lot of this delay can be chalked up to how much time I spent building and painting models of said White Scars.
I also read the second in the Siege of Terra sub-series of Horus Heresy novels, called The Lost and the Damned. This one was a quick read, and a real page-turner, with how the siege is escalating at this point. The first traitor legions began to make landfall here, including the Death Guard, Night Lords, and even the Primarch Angron, if his World Eaters hadn't quite landed yet. They will definitely be in the next book alongside Perturabo's Iron Warriors if the cover art is anything to go by.
Another part of the reason I wasn't reading quite as much is because I was busy writing my own BL fiction for their open submissions window that has just passed. I wrote a story about the Adepta Sororitas, and as part of my research into getting the tone and feel correct, I read Danie Ware's newest story about them, called Forsaken.
Finally, I caught up on an issue of White Dwarf featuring a good article about the Blood Ravens chapter, who starred in Relic's Dawn of War series of PC games.
White Dwarf (July)
Savage Scars
Forsaken
How To Paint Space Marines
The Lost and the Damned
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Second Quarter Book Review
I've continued the Warhammer reading festival through Q2, with the following list, in reverse chronological order:
White Dwarf (June)
The Last Hunt - The White Scars 4th Company, the Tulwar Brotherhood, come to an honour world to defend it from the Tyranid hive fleet Cicatrix, and are nearly wiped out but for the help of a Farseer of craftworld Iyanden. In the end they avert a time paradox by heading into the webway in search of their long lost primarch, Jaghatai Khan.
White Dwarf (May)
The Bloodied Rose - Sister Augusta from Mercy returns with her squad to that same cathedral to combat a darker foe there.
Mercy - A squad of Battle Sisters fend of a force of Orks to protect a cathedral near an isolated village.
Requiem Infernal - A Sister of Battle returns on a sort of pilgrimage to her home world to seek medical help for a regiment of Astra Militarum she is attached to. Many strange things are happening on the Candleworld.
Macragge's Honour - The Horus Heresy graphic novel that follows on from the betrayal at Calth.
White Dwarf (Apr)
Blood Oath - A Warhammer World exclusive campaign book for 40K 7th edition. Ultramarines fight off Khornate Daemons on one of the chapter's protectorate worlds.
Legends of the Dark Millennium: Astra Militarum - A lot of novellas and shorts starring Commissar Yarrik, Colonel Straken, and Lord Castellan Creed. I really enjoyed all of these.
White Dwarf (Mar)
The Solar War - The first book of the Siege of Terra series, capping off the Horus Heresy mega-series. The story of how the Traitor Legions fought their way from outside the Solar system to Terra's orbit.
A Company of Shadows - Severina Raine leads a force against a witch cult
Endurance - A Space Marine falls to Nurgle
White Dwarf (Feb)
Vigilus Ablaze shorts - vignettes about Vigilus now as a war zone
Shadowspear shorts - stories highlighting the forces of Chaos about to attack Vigilus
Vigilus Defiant shorts - peeks into life on the Imperial world of Vigilus as it becomes the center of a giant conflict
White Dwarf (June)
The Last Hunt - The White Scars 4th Company, the Tulwar Brotherhood, come to an honour world to defend it from the Tyranid hive fleet Cicatrix, and are nearly wiped out but for the help of a Farseer of craftworld Iyanden. In the end they avert a time paradox by heading into the webway in search of their long lost primarch, Jaghatai Khan.
White Dwarf (May)
The Bloodied Rose - Sister Augusta from Mercy returns with her squad to that same cathedral to combat a darker foe there.
Mercy - A squad of Battle Sisters fend of a force of Orks to protect a cathedral near an isolated village.
Requiem Infernal - A Sister of Battle returns on a sort of pilgrimage to her home world to seek medical help for a regiment of Astra Militarum she is attached to. Many strange things are happening on the Candleworld.
Macragge's Honour - The Horus Heresy graphic novel that follows on from the betrayal at Calth.
White Dwarf (Apr)
Blood Oath - A Warhammer World exclusive campaign book for 40K 7th edition. Ultramarines fight off Khornate Daemons on one of the chapter's protectorate worlds.
Legends of the Dark Millennium: Astra Militarum - A lot of novellas and shorts starring Commissar Yarrik, Colonel Straken, and Lord Castellan Creed. I really enjoyed all of these.
White Dwarf (Mar)
The Solar War - The first book of the Siege of Terra series, capping off the Horus Heresy mega-series. The story of how the Traitor Legions fought their way from outside the Solar system to Terra's orbit.
A Company of Shadows - Severina Raine leads a force against a witch cult
Endurance - A Space Marine falls to Nurgle
White Dwarf (Feb)
Vigilus Ablaze shorts - vignettes about Vigilus now as a war zone
Shadowspear shorts - stories highlighting the forces of Chaos about to attack Vigilus
Vigilus Defiant shorts - peeks into life on the Imperial world of Vigilus as it becomes the center of a giant conflict
Monday, March 18, 2019
First Quarter Book Review
I have continued to spend time this quarter reading Warhammer 40,000 material, and I have gotten through a large brace of it. I love this stuff.
I read the second and third volumes in the 7th Edition core book set, Dark Millennium and The Rules. The first is an exploration of the lore of the setting, where the second is exactly what it sounds like. The game is in 8th Edition at the moment, but a lot of the rules remain the same, and the differences are interesting.
I have also subscribed to the all-things-Games-Workshop magazine White Dwarf, and I am reading my second issue of that. They are now running new short stories in each issue, the first of which was called The Herald of Doom, and showed the Black Legion beginning to arrive at the planet of Vigilus, which was already under siege by both Orks and Genestealer Cults.
There was a Black Library Celebration week in February, during which they released the Horus Heresy stories Lantern's Light, Bringer of Sorrow, and Ghost of Nuceria. These were centered around Mortarion, Arkhan Land, and Angron, respectively.
I read the novel Vulkan: Lord of Drakes in a couple of days one week, and The Buried Dagger the next, which was the story of the fall of the Death Guard to Nurgle, and the beginnings of the Grey Knights chapter of Space Marines, out of the latter part of the Horus Heresy.
There had also been a Black Library exclusive anthology of Primarchs short stories called Scions of the Emperor which I bought and read and then quickly sold on again on eBay, since it cost me approximately four times what it should have. It was well worth it, though. The stories contained therein:
Canticle - Ferrus Manus in his earliest days on Medusa
The Verdict of the Scythe - Mortarion tries an alternate path in the Great Crusade
A Game of Opposites - The Khan foils Iron Warriors late in the Heresy
Better Angels - Sanguinius mentors one legion warrior artisan
The Conqueror's Truth - Konrad Curze shows his legion's truth to a remembrancer
The Sinew of War - Guilliman becomes the defacto leader of Macragge
The Chamber at the End of Memory - Dorn stumbles upon forbidden lore of the lost legions
First Legion - Late in the Great Crusade, The Alpha Legion approach The Lion with an offer to ensure he is made Warmaster
Foiled by Black Library's past collector's editions of books and their exclusive stories, I found alternate means to read a few of them.:
The Wonderworker, set between the first two books of the Black Legion series, about Khayon's recruitment of a fellow Thousand Sons sorcerer to Abaddon's ranks,
A Flash of Silver Among the Corroded Ghosts, set after the second book in the Black Legion series, about Khayon's first encounter with the Grey Knights,
and In the Grim Darkness, a companion piece to Guy Haley's Dark Imperium, about Decimus Felix, and the interesting treatment he received from Belisarius Cawl after being selected to become one of the first Primaris Space Marines.
At the moment I am reading Chains of Golgotha, a novella from the anthology Legends of the Dark Millennium: Astra Militarum, about the ongoing rivalry of Commissar Yarrick and Gazghull Mag Uruk Thraka, the canny Ork warboss, as well as February's White Dwarf.
I read the second and third volumes in the 7th Edition core book set, Dark Millennium and The Rules. The first is an exploration of the lore of the setting, where the second is exactly what it sounds like. The game is in 8th Edition at the moment, but a lot of the rules remain the same, and the differences are interesting.
I have also subscribed to the all-things-Games-Workshop magazine White Dwarf, and I am reading my second issue of that. They are now running new short stories in each issue, the first of which was called The Herald of Doom, and showed the Black Legion beginning to arrive at the planet of Vigilus, which was already under siege by both Orks and Genestealer Cults.
There was a Black Library Celebration week in February, during which they released the Horus Heresy stories Lantern's Light, Bringer of Sorrow, and Ghost of Nuceria. These were centered around Mortarion, Arkhan Land, and Angron, respectively.
I read the novel Vulkan: Lord of Drakes in a couple of days one week, and The Buried Dagger the next, which was the story of the fall of the Death Guard to Nurgle, and the beginnings of the Grey Knights chapter of Space Marines, out of the latter part of the Horus Heresy.
There had also been a Black Library exclusive anthology of Primarchs short stories called Scions of the Emperor which I bought and read and then quickly sold on again on eBay, since it cost me approximately four times what it should have. It was well worth it, though. The stories contained therein:
Canticle - Ferrus Manus in his earliest days on Medusa
The Verdict of the Scythe - Mortarion tries an alternate path in the Great Crusade
A Game of Opposites - The Khan foils Iron Warriors late in the Heresy
Better Angels - Sanguinius mentors one legion warrior artisan
The Conqueror's Truth - Konrad Curze shows his legion's truth to a remembrancer
The Sinew of War - Guilliman becomes the defacto leader of Macragge
The Chamber at the End of Memory - Dorn stumbles upon forbidden lore of the lost legions
First Legion - Late in the Great Crusade, The Alpha Legion approach The Lion with an offer to ensure he is made Warmaster
Foiled by Black Library's past collector's editions of books and their exclusive stories, I found alternate means to read a few of them.:
The Wonderworker, set between the first two books of the Black Legion series, about Khayon's recruitment of a fellow Thousand Sons sorcerer to Abaddon's ranks,
A Flash of Silver Among the Corroded Ghosts, set after the second book in the Black Legion series, about Khayon's first encounter with the Grey Knights,
and In the Grim Darkness, a companion piece to Guy Haley's Dark Imperium, about Decimus Felix, and the interesting treatment he received from Belisarius Cawl after being selected to become one of the first Primaris Space Marines.
At the moment I am reading Chains of Golgotha, a novella from the anthology Legends of the Dark Millennium: Astra Militarum, about the ongoing rivalry of Commissar Yarrick and Gazghull Mag Uruk Thraka, the canny Ork warboss, as well as February's White Dwarf.
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