Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Tackling Black Library’s Horus Heresy series can be daunting. Fortunately, Black Library also produces books in the series as unabridged audio books, which helps to mix things up. Vulkan Lives is the audio book version of Nick Kyme’s Salamanders entry to the Heresy, read by Saul Reichlin. It is a slightly unwieldy story (though Nick […]
In Promethean Sun, Nick Kyme takes “his” Salamanders Space Marines out for a pre-Heresy novella about their Primarch Vulkan, hostile dinosaurs and the value of compassion. The book almost succeeds in marrying the pulp of dinosaur-fighting-Space-Marines with a moral (philosophical?) reflection on the (in-)human nature of Primarchs and Space Marines, yet somewhere, somehow, something appears […]
Black Library is clearly on a roll. In 2012, we saw the new premium hard-cover novels, the launch of Black Library in German and French, audio-drama script-books, a preview of Horus Heresy graphic novels, and a record number of new books and short-stories. 2013 kicks off with the same vigor, including several interesting novels and stories by some […]
Games Day UK 2012. It must have been a decade since I last attended a Games Day in person. Maybe what I say is old news for most. Yet, having returned from Birmingham, my foremost (and surprising) realization is just how much Forge World stole the limelight from everyone else. Of course, their Horus Heresy […]
