There’s been a lot of talk online of late that since Black Library have started talking about upcoming releases it’s been all 40k and Horus Heresy, but there’s not been any new Age of Sigmar books mentioned. I wrote a quick blog post a couple of months ago about the two upcoming Age of Sigmar novels that were discussed at Black Library Live, but there hasn’t been any word on what else might be coming up in the Mortal Realms.
I often try to do things a little differently here on Track of Words, but sometimes it’s worth just jumping on the bandwagon and going for it – like with blog posts looking back at the year that was. Last year I wrote a 2015 In Summary blog post, and I’m doing the same this year – taking a look at how 2016 was for me as a reader and a blogger (let’s not talk about what it’s been like in the rest of the world…*shudders*). I’ll try not to ramble too much, so let’s start off with a few numbers…
The first new Black Library e-short of 2017, Josh Reynolds’ A Trick of the Light is his second story featuring Lukas the Trickster after the audio drama The Art of Provocation. This time we go right back to Lukas’ induction into the Space Wolves and another event that’s enshrined in his backstory – his battle with the doppelgangrel. Abandoned in the harsh wilderness of Fenris, Lukas must battle all manner of dangers if he’s to return to the Fang and become one of the Sky Warriors, not least this most lethal of predators. He has a score to settle first, however…
Hello and welcome to the first instalment of Black Library Weekly in 2017 – Happy New Year! As usual, I’m going to be taking a look at the Black Library-related news from the week just gone, which this time round involved a new campaign of special offers as well as a small but interesting handful of new releases.
As with the last couple of weeks I’m going to look at things in a slightly different order to usual – once we’re back in the usual swing of things I’ll revert back to the Monday/Midweek/Weekend format again.
As usual Black Library closed off 2016 with an Advent Calendar series, which gave us 24 short stories or audio dramas from across the range of settings – 40k, Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar and even Blood Bowl. As I did for the last couple of years, I read the stories as they came available and posted reviews of each one, but now it’s all over I want to take a moment to look back at the Advent Calendar as a whole.
For Issue Four of Hachette’s Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection the action turns away from Space Marines and Inquisitors to the Imperial Guard, and a humble guardsman. Fifteen Hours by Mitchel Scanlon was first published waaaay back in 2005 and is one of those books that hasn’t quite made it to be an all-out Black Library classic, but is nonetheless held as something of an Imperial Guard must-read. A quick look on Goodreads shows it to be rated at 3.7 out of 5, which is pretty good, while on Amazon (UK) it’s got nine 5 star reviews and one 4 star review! Sounds like it’s worth a read, right?
On the off chance that you haven’t heard (perhaps your head’s been in the sand for the last few months), Hachette and Black Library have teamed up to create a partwork series of Black Library 40k novels called the Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection. Every fortnight a new book is released, and over time you can build up an awesome collection of 40k novels in lovely hardback format, complete with spine artwork that fits together to create (eventually) an original piece of art featuring all manner of famous 40k characters.
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Also available as eight individual eshorts, The Red Path is Chris Dows’ first full novel for Black Library after a raft of White Scars and Imperial Guard short stories. Its focus is on Khârn the Betrayer, tying in with the new miniature and the current 13th Black Crusade story arc, as Abaddon the Despoiler dispatches one of his lieutenants to find Khârn and bring him back to the Warmaster. Meanwhile a living saint of the Imperium is returning to the planet Salandraxis after campaigning near the Eye of Terror, while Khârn himself is merrily taking skulls with his warband.
The 2016 Black Library Advent Calendar was a resounding success, but Black Library aren’t resting on their laurels. Starting on Christmas Day and running until the 31st January there’s a new campaign taking place – The 12 Days of Christmas.
Hello and welcome to another instalment of Black Library Weekly, where I take a look at the Black Library-related news from the week just gone – announcements, pre-orders and new releases. This week it’s a slightly later instalment as a result of yesterday being Christmas Day – I hope everyone had a lovely day, assuming you celebrate Christmas!