Question on ADB's latest novel 'Betrayer'
Should I go for the hardback or wait for the paperback?
hardback is yet another method of extracting yet more money from us so..
like the 'limited edition' novellas being sold for 30 bloody quid, i refuse to be ripped off by purchasing them.
I hate hardback.....just an excuse to make us pay more when half of us dont even want it
Its big, heavy, hard to store and like most things in the Imperium primitive
Just like what GW is doing to the Codexes. They get to tack on an extra 50% to the price just because its hardback.
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Which is why I stopped playing
I always figured it would be the models but in the end it was the books
It's impractical to lug that stupidly large book to games.....
The people at my local shop have to get a separate table just to put their army books on it....which is terrible.....and only the most die hard would take the slap to the face in terms of digital pricing and smile
I'm happy GW doesnt handle Dark Hersey or Rogue trader, fantasy flight plays it smart and actually give you a ebook version that doesnt cost the same amount as the physical copy....
I esp dislike the fact that the ebook versions of the BL novels actually cost more than the physical copy......
So I bought Shadows of Treachery. One question though:
In both John French's The Crimson Fist as in Dan Abnett's Lightning Tower , the same situation and the same characters appear but they don't talk the same words.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
I was wondering: is this deliberate on the authors part to make us understand that fluff is not set in stone but is instead, only a setting?
In which, you know, every guy can write whatever, as long as they respect the basic, like Imperial Fists & Descendants have no Betcher's Gland or Sus-an Membrane (important details are important)
What do you guys think?` Also, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year all!
Happy New Year! That is a very interesting question that I too have thought about. And somehow it seems more apparent in the HH series. There has been some criticism that 30K is "cooler" and of "higher quality" than the rest of 40k fluff. A bit too accurate perhaps.
I like the idea that since the Imperium of 30K no longer exists, the history would have been tweaked to suit the current ruler(s), changed in time, lost in translation. Perhaps what we read in HH is what is available to the Imperial scholars, based on what they have learned immediately after the heresy.
The big picture is clear, but the individual motives, especially of the Primarchs "behind closed doors" remain unclear.
And this will go very well with the 'shrowded in mistery' routine of the grim-darkian universe.
I guess it's not that hard to write 30k fiction. You keep your details precise and you leave out whatever might be of major importance to other writers or to your readers imagination.
Then you get a train load of money.
HH is more epic a story to tell than the ongoing battles and skirmishes of 'modern' imperium.
thats not to say the storyquality is necessarily better. god knows there has been some poor HH releases and it concerns me that the series is increasingly becoming a substandard cash cow.
It's not being used the authors have discussed a definite story arc that is due to end soon.
There was that rebellion. Sounds pretty exciting.
Someone tried to overthrow the imperium, had quite a following. Its post heresy, I have forgotten the details but when my friend told me about it, it sounded very exciting.
I'm currently reading Angel Exterminatus by Graham McNeill and oh how I'm enthralled. Basically, IMO this is one good ing book (so far). It even beats my adoration for The First Heretic.
Though you should read Mirror Crack'd before this one to know important details about Fulgrim and Eidolon.
that would be interesting, not to me personally but I know many would like to read on it....
I just want more Non-Imperium novels......would be nice to have a novel series on the fall of the eldar or the Damocles Gulf Crusade piece by piece
I'm just tired of reading about the Imperium and from their point of view....
Last edited by Okuto; December 29, 2012 at 12:26 PM.