Space Marines

[bryant]

Short shameful confession: I’m kind of enjoying the hell out of the Horus Heresy books. Of course this is only because Dan Abnett is quite a competent writer and so on, but excuses aside, big serious people in powered armor are marching across the galaxy and falling to corruption one by one! I have never taken pleasure out of a Warhammer 40K Space Marine book before. Nom nom nom.

Mirrored from Population: One.

Comments

[solarmus.livejournal.com]

I read Horus Rising recently, and it was decent. Had it's high and low parts, but good overall. I didn't get into as much as I have his Gaunt's ghosts books but then, that's a hard thing to measure up to.

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

Having read the Hell out of his recent work for Marvel Comics, I just picked up an Elizabethan pulp novel by him that looked quite promising.

[bluegargantua]

I was listening to a podcast about the new Space Marine RPG and they said "yeah, in the book it says that if you want to port your Dark Heresy character over to this game? Give them 1300 XP or they're just going to be roadkill".

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Tom

[bryant]

That is so totally true. Space Marines are BADASS.

... I like Inquisition-level play better.

[ogier30.livejournal.com]

"Dan Abnett is quite a competent reader"

He's also a pretty good writer, too. I find I really enjoy his stuff - it reads fast, has decent character development, and develops the WH40K setting in ways I like.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was absolutely wrecked at the end of War of Kings/Guardians vol 3, both of which tpbs I picked up on the same day. Fantastic stuff, although their refrigerator seems a bit full, if you know what I mean.

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

I'm loving their new project, "Heroes for Hire.". And it looks like they'll still have an ongoing cosmic book, though I'll miss Guardians and Nova.

[bryant]

Writer. That. Right.

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Abnett's definitely the star of Black Library's stable, although Graham MacNeill and Aaron Dembski-Bowden are also great writers of 40k fiction as well. I've read Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novels and their spinoffs as well as his Inquisitor trilogies, but I haven't picked up any of his Space Marine material yet. I'm a little gunshy about Space Marine fiction, just because I've had the unfortunate experience that it seems that the ones that I've picked up to read about loyalist Marines have largely been crap (Rynn's World, I'm looking at you, you uninspiring dungheap.)

And while I'm an old skool 40k player with my roots in the Rogue Trader days, I just haven't managed to pick up the HH novels yet. I think my problem is that I want to start at the beginning of them, and now there are so many I'm feeling to lazy to go back and start it.

[bryant]

Is McNeill generally better than False Gods? Cause that one kind of rang poorly for me.

"Her eyes roamed further up the list..." is almost cliched bad writing. And man, his character spend a lot of time speaking via nods. "Yes," he nodded. "That is so."