THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Joe Molotov on May 13, 2015, 12:29:03 AM
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It was called Brothers of the Snake and it had spoice maureenz in it and it was written by noted author Dan Abnett and it was three dollars.
Oh oh, but I saw the one that I really wanted though. It was called Innocence Proves Nothing, and based on the title alone, I'm going to assume that it's the greatest book ever written. It was more than three dollars, tho.
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A moment of laxity spawns a lifetime of heresy. :ufup
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BTW I expect some top shelf excerpts posted itt.
e: Here's an example:
As with most of us in that indecorous age, his first allegiance was to his warband and those warriors he could trust above all others. His clan was formed from the companies he’d once commanded in the war, and the converts he’d gained in the centuries that stretched out after the Siege of Terra. They called themselves the Duraga kal Esmejhak – ‘the grey that follows fire’ – an old Cthonian term of mourning, referencing the ashes that remain after a body’s cremation.
It was a maudlin name, for the shame of defeat burned deep within him. Yet I admired him for facing it with a dark sense of humour rather than denying it outright. Or worse, worshipping the failures of the past.
This is one of the "good" Black Library authors, BTW.
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Oh oh, but I saw the one that I really wanted though. It was called Innocence Proves Nothing, and based on the title alone, I'm going to assume that it's the greatest book ever written. It was more than three dollars, tho.
You know, that is kinda a catchy phrase.
I'll keep it in mind as a non-sequitur line.
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Are there any Necromunda novels worth reading?
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Are there any Necromunda novels worth reading?
Lasgun Wedding
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Are there any Necromunda novels worth reading?
Lasgun Wedding
http://www.amazon.com/Lasgun-Wedding-Necromunda-Novels-McDermott/dp/1844164624/
PRICES. :o
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Are there any Necromunda novels worth reading?
Lasgun Wedding
http://www.amazon.com/Lasgun-Wedding-Necromunda-Novels-McDermott/dp/1844164624/
PRICES. :o
http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/lasgun-wedding-ebook.html
Amazon stopped carrying their stuff a while back (or the Black Library just wanted to handle everything themselves?) so prices are just dumb on amazon for this stuff. It's a shame too as I used to love throwing in an omnibus in an order just because, now I don't buy shit.
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Black Library fucks readers over with low print runs. They do reprints occasionally though, even the Necromunda stuff despite Necromunda being a ded gaem [sic.].
SHOCKING SECRET ABOUT MYSELF: when the Eisenhorn omnibus was out of print for a long time and worth a decent chunk of change, I gave my copy away for free. I even paid the postage. It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself. :american
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A moment of laxatives spawns a lifetime of therapy. :ufup
Fixed that for you.
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I went to the WH4K Wikia, and the first article I clicked on had a their/there mistake.
:holeup
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Not using Lexicanun. :ufup
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CLAIM IT IN THE NAME OF THE EMPEROR
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I was just looking to read about the C'tan, I ain't trying to marry one. :yeshrug
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At least it wasn't a halo book
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Don't even joke like that. :comeon
Only vidya books I've ever read were the Myst books and Jane Jensen's Sins of the Fathers novelization. :lawd
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I was just looking to read about the C'tan, I ain't trying to marry one. :yeshrug
Since they (along with the Necrons) were drastically changed recentish, this seems like a good time to tell you that there is no canon in 40K, so research to learn about the universe is largely a waste of time. It's for things like identifying what Mk VI power armor looks like instead.
This is why I told you to read Lexicanum instead of the Wikia, it's much shorter (and thus won't waste as much of your time) and much more conservative in what information is allowed to enter the encyclopedia.
Since you're reading about teh spehs mehrunes dagon, check this out.
Astartes (spehs mehrines) are the sloppy seconds created by the Emperor after his genetically engineered knights of the Round Table (called primarchs) were stolen from him.
Now when this happened ca. the year 2,000 30,000 humanity was emerging from a long dark age (not that it still isn't in one in M41) and technology was not particularly sophisticated, so how could he have done all this? The story used to be that he was just that awesome, which isn't ridiculous for 40K.
Well, turns out that he actually (probably?) made a pact with the Chaos gods to acquire the power necessary to create his smartdumb knights instead of just being awesome.
If you never read a book from the Horus Heresy (Mordred's rebellion, to continue the Arthurian metaphor) series you'd never know this because any book is limited by the perspective of this characters in it, even omniscient narrators aren't, it's just some stupid Imperial scribe limited by the time and place of his life.
This is also why everyone has ridiculous diction and the writing is equally if not more so.