Wolf Lord Mjolnir Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Dan Abnett has announced that he would like his next Horus Heresy novel to be about the BATTLE OF PROSPERO!! Mr. Abnett intends to work in partnership with Graham McNeill to write two novels on the Battle of Prospero. One author will write a novel from the Space Wolf perspective and the other from the Thousand Son perspective! Sounds awesome - lets hope it all gets a green light from GW! This came from a Dan Abnett interview on 40K Radio! Skol, Mjol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfkry Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 oh yeah... thats what im talkin bout... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solid Zaku Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I think I'll burn the SW's book, just for a little bit of poetic irony. Go Sons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherAtrox Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Sounds like it could be a great pair of novels. I'm so glad the series is expanding like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChapniK Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 And then you would burst into flames for some poetic justice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sons of Horus Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 go 1k sons go!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 me not being a SW or 1ksons fanboy am not looking especialy forward to the prospero books, especialy when we know alot about that story already im looking forward to tales that we havnt heard of before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankbusta Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I don't agree, Perry. If you've read the novels so far you'll see that they add so much more to what little we know about the fluff. We all knew about the Dark Angels, but the novel really added layers of detail never touched on in the codexes. The novels are all the difference between reading a grade school primer on D-day and reading "Band of Brothers", same setting , but so much more detail in the latter. I usually read GW novels and give them away; GW has really done a great job with the Horus Heresy novels, they are all keepers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Since those 1k sons babies want to burn the SW version i might start on tearing that 1k sons book to shreds with my teeth. Spacewolf style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israfel Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 me not being a SW or 1ksons fanboy am not looking especialy forward to the prospero books, especialy when we know alot about that story already im looking forward to tales that we havnt heard of before I agree, I think the most fascinating part of the HH novels is that I get excited eventhough I know exactly how the story will end ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kable Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Mr. Abnett intends to work in partnership with Graham McNeill to write two novels on the Battle of Prospero. One author will write a novel from the Space Wolf perspective and the other from the Thousand Son perspective! Speak of the devil, i just posted saying that i would love to read that. And now two novels may be made on it, Flippin sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i just hope mcneil doesnt get the SW story... wolf lord kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobo Willie Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I disagree. I'd prefer to have Abnett writing the Thousand Sons book. Nothing against McNeil but I think Abnett would do better with the Thousand Sons. With as many short stories, novels, and very detailed histories of the Space Wolves, I imagine it'd be hard for the book to be misleading in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i do agree Abnett would do a much better job on the 1k book, but there are very very few of mcneils books i like, and seeing him approach the SW book scares me. i have faith in mcneil's ability to screw things up. i am being selfish. sue me. wolf lord kieran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 This is very good news. I'm excited to see if this goes through, and if so who gets the Abnett-makeover, or McNeil one for that matter. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horus-incarnate Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i LOVE the HH books some of the best books ive read and ive read alot, but when it comes down to it, i just want to read about the seige of terra and that final battle of father and son...admit it...you all look forward to that....what really went down on that battle barge but id rather william king got hold of the SW book as he has done some great stuff with them also lee lightner has aswell but hey we can all dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarulek Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 i LOVE the HH books some of the best books ive read and ive read alot, but when it comes down to it, i just want to read about the seige of terra and that final battle of father and son...admit it...you all look forward to that....what really went down on that battle barge Well, they plan to make 40 books for the HH series, so I don't think we'll get a book about the Siege of Terra soon. So far we've had in-dept stuff about 5 traitor legions and a novel about the sixth (word bearers) coming up. The upcoming novel will also cover some stuff about the Ultramarines. The Iron Hands made an appearence in Fulgrim and a very small bit about the Imperial Fists was in Flight of the Eisenstein. So far we've only had one loyalist specific novel: Descent of Angels. So that's 6 traitor legions and 2,5 loyalists. Conclusion is that they will probably cover the remaining 9 legions. And don't forget the numerous Guard-regiment and different organs of Imperial rule. Nah, the Battle of Terra is years away from getting novelized :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Askari Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Yeah but we can still dream. But to me it seems like the whole one novel from SW point of view and a novel from 1ksons point of view is pointless. It would be better if they just did one novel and told both stories point of view it's been done before very well I might add. Plus when two novels are made on the sameevent the novels won't be as good beacuase certain things will be glossed over in one book while being given in full detail in another book and when you know that the event being lossed over is important it sort of messes with the flow of the story. Sort of like how the battle of Istvaan III was summed up in only a few pages in Fulgrim and mainly focused on lucius tricking his buddy into killing the loyalists. That was probably the worst part of the book in my opinion. But in the battle of Istavaan gave a good account of loyalist and traitor pOV's and actually was mainly loyalist. If they create another ook that contains the fall of Istvaan V then it won't be as good because there isn't much else to tell and it could only be glossed over in an annoying manner. It's like the many WWII first person shooters, there's only so much you can do before it just becomes boring witnessingm the same thing over and over. The only way to make the series work is to have all of the other novels focus on events before the heresy or the events right before the siege of terra and after Istvaan V. Even then trying to make a novel for each legion isn't a good idea and many of the stories would be best served by combining the stories of two legions in a split narrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Broken Knife Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I hope they include the 'truth' about the SW 13th Company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cohort Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I agree with a fewo other posters in this thread: I hope Abnett tackles the Sons. I'm not a big McNeill fan, but seeing as the wolves have so much fluff already he can't mess it up too much. Abnett is much better at world building and adding depth to the 40k universe (Legion, anyone?). The Sons are a blank slate and I'd love to see Abnett be as creative as he was the Alpha Legion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablolegend Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Can the novels be downloaded from the internet by free???Is There any way?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyriel Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Everyone keeps ranting about the wulfs and sorcerors but that nobody even mentioned the Adeptus Custodes... shame on you. The custodes were heavily involved in the sacking of prospero, maybe now we can finally get some glimpses to the big Mans personal bodyguard and their background as well as how efficiently they kick 1ksons behinds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuskRaider Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Truthfully, I'm not really feeling these. Same as the next one coming out, I don't like the Ultramarines nor do I like the Word Bearers. I'm really waiting for a good novel from Perturabo's perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guywithareallybigGUN Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I'm looking foward to these 2 books coming out, but what I'm really looking forward to is when we get to the seige of terra. Hopefully its close because I don't know my whole Heresy Timeline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Either Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Abnet rules in the 40k world fact!!!!! but i do think that this story should be told in one book from both sides POV cos two could be over kill me being selfish tho i want another book on the SoH and one on the Iron Warriors ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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