![]() ![]() Now they really seem to be milking it for all it's worth, though. The Heresy series itself kind of seems to be slowing down, both in terms of publication and in terms of quality, though the latter was always very variable. Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Talon of Horus has been out for over a year with no paperback version in sight, and while I think he's the best writer in the BL stable, I've got too long a list of stuff I want to read to pay hardcover prices for 40k novels. They're terribly slow with putting out paperback versions of their more recent novels. I've kind of drifted away from the Black Library output. Everybody is a bastard and Chaos will ultimately triumph (unless the Nids eat everyone before that happens). ![]() It can be a lot of fun, but I don't consider it particularly thought-provoking. I don't think the setting is that deep, to be honest, it's just been around for 30 years (plus of course it drew on Warhammer that preceded it) and can draw on all that accumulated background material. it's fantasy with a sci-fi paintcoat, like Star Wars. There's magic, demons, ancient artefacts of evil, there are space orks and space elves, there used to be space dwarves. The setting started essentially with the idea of "what if we took all our elves, orcs and knights and gave them guns and spaceships?". Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. It's sort of part of the mission statement, even:įorget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. ![]() I'd say 40k is woefully lacking in the science aspect of the science fiction designation. ![]()
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