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I finally caught up on the Eisenhorn storyline with The Magos & then Pariah. I really enjoyed both, especially the reavelat the end of Pariah with the "specialist." As usual Abnett is writing the best books in the BL and I'm really looking forward to the continuation of this story.
 
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There sure is! Abnett doesn't disappoint as usual.
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I haven't even read the Magos story yet, but a few of the short stories are repeats from other anthologies. However, the original stuff so far is damn good Abnett stuff as usual. I now want a new series with Drusher? Cant remember the 3 or so stories with him, posting on phone.
 
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Magos was actually pretty good, along with the the shorts that come with it some of which I hadn't read. I didn't actually think he would come out with any new Eisenhorn stuff.
 
OU Ariakas

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I realized that I was about 10 books behind so I started reading them in earnest again.

Holy shit Praetorian of Dorn was fucking good and the ending may be the most shocking of any HH book so far.
 
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I thought the Corax book was just going to be noise on my way to Emperor of Mankind; boy was I wrong. While it was just the compilation of all Ravenguard/Corax short stories and novellas it was a great end to the Corax story line and really made me like the Ravenguard much like Legion made me like Alpha Legion. I have to say, after the slog through the Vulkan and Imperium Secundus books, 38-40 have been great.
 
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After reading this thread I read the first three books in the Eisenhorn storyline.

6/10. I listened to the audiobooks and fell asleep multiple times during the stories.

Would not recommend.
 
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After reading this thread I read the first three books in the Eisenhorn storyline.

6/10. I listened to the audiobooks and fell asleep multiple times during the stories.

Would not recommend.
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Eisenhorn is good boilerplate sci-fi but it doesn't make good use of the setting. Too shiny, high technology too prevalent many errors that conflict with canon DA makes a habit of this. Abnetts novels are written and edited professionally and are easily accessible but bland. Eisenhorn is absurdly soft for an inquisitor at no point does the reader doubt he is the hero. His "fall" was far from convincing, he never does anything irredeemable and his motives are always pure. But he initially has a "light sabre" and uses it in Jedi fashion, defeats Chaos Marines and dreadnoughts in single combat.

Would have been better if he actually showed spiritual corruption and starting behaving insanely and make choices that the reader is shocked by. The Ian Watson novels are the in the top 5 for best wh40k and certainly the most accurate representation of the setting and especially the Inquisition.
 
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GrYeYeS said:
Eisenhorn is good boilerplate sci-fi but it doesn't make good use of the setting. Too shiny, high technology too prevalent many errors that conflict with canon DA makes a habit of this. Abnetts novels are written and edited professionally and are easily accessible but bland. Eisenhorn is absurdly soft for an inquisitor at no point does the reader doubt he is the hero. His "fall" was far from convincing, he never does anything irredeemable and his motives are always pure. But he initially has a "light sabre" and uses it in Jedi fashion, defeats Chaos Marines and dreadnoughts in single combat.

Would have been better if he actually showed spiritual corruption and starting behaving insanely and make choices that the reader is shocked by. The Ian Watson novels are the in the top 5 for best wh40k and certainly the most accurate representation of the setting and especially the Inquisition.
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Mortarion is one of 3 primarchs (along with Jangati Khan and Vulkan) that haven't had a story from their POV yet.
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Hey guys, I wrote this 8 years ago and then they hired Nick Kyme and I want the Vulkan novels to fucking stop. He may have the least interesting story because it is Deus Ex Machina on a grand scale and really doesn't make much sense.
 
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OU Ariakas said:
Hey guys, I wrote this 8 years ago and then they hired Nick Kyme and I want the Vulkan novels to fucking stop. He may have the least interesting story because it is Deus Ex Machina on a grand scale and really doesn't make much sense.
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I'm years behind on the HH and re-reading it from the beginning it's so cringeworthy, even skipping some of the worst books. But I do remember reading far enough to the big reveal that Vulkan is a Perpetual and holy shit was it a dumb fucking reveal.
 
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Yep, and the other thing people are claiming is that the Emperor is also a perpetual because he is still alive on the Golden Throne. But if that were true then the best course of action would have been to never put him on throne and take him out now so that he can regenerate.
 
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Ofc the emperor is a perpetual.

But harming him is heresy. And he isn't done collecting souls to ascend to God-hood yet

J Jais you find this thread yet?
 
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Yep, and the other thing people are claiming is that the Emperor is also a perpetual because he is still alive on the Golden Throne. But if that were true then the best course of action would have been to never put him on throne and take him out now so that he can regenerate.
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My single biggest problem with the way they decided to tell the story is that it revolves so heavily around ignorance. For some retarded reason (probably tied in to his futile attempt to destroy religion) the Emperor keeps the truth about the warp hidden and ultimately that's what undoes everything. The Luna Wolves ignorance of Chaos is what makes it so easy for Erebus and the corrupted Word Bearers to manipulate Horus. And Magnus, who probably knows as much about the warp as the Emperor, should know damn good and well there is no primordial creator, but he lets his legion dick around with fucking "tutelaries".
 
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My single biggest problem with the way they decided to tell the story is that it revolves so heavily around ignorance. For some retarded reason (probably tied in to his futile attempt to destroy religion) the Emperor keeps the truth about the warp hidden and ultimately that's what undoes everything. The Luna Wolves ignorance of Chaos is what makes it so easy for Erebus and the corrupted Word Bearers to manipulate Horus. And Magnus, who probably knows as much about the warp as the Emperor, should know damn good and well there is no primordial creator, but he lets his legion dick around with fucking "tutelaries".
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I always liked the idea that his fervent denial of religion was to weaken the power of Chaos but it is flawed from the ground up since 'religion' isn't what makes the Chaos gods grow stronger; emotion is and you cannot separate emotion from human beings. I just finished Ruinstorm and I thought it did a great job of showing how insidious Chaos demons could be even to Primarchs and I really appreciated Vengeful Spirit because it showed that Horus really was manipulated into turning and wasn't just a bad seed. All of that doesn't change the fact that you are correct and it is a really obtuse way to explain why no one knew about Chaos.
 
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