DukeLeto69

The Scouring series will be as long as sales/success dictate. GW beancounters will determine whether it is profitable or not. The more profitable the more books we will get. No way this has been more than loosely mapped out. It will be “let’s see how this goes”. For me, I am reverting back to waiting for MMPB like I did with the entire HH having committed to Std HB for SoT believing it was only 8 books! Will also try to ONLY buy those that review well and cover things I am really interested in having been burned by DoF series. I need to fight my “collector instincts”!

In the shadows!

From a readers POV I agree but from a GW POV they will continue with numbered series as so many of their customer/fanbase are collectors and will buy the lot to avoid gaps in our collections. If you allow standalone novels away from numbered series, then that creates choice to not buy based on premise of the story.

All true and fair, especially the bit about GW/BL dropping the ball on digging into this setting goldmine. But AS A NOVEL (not a pseudo sourcebook) it was dull and was ADB by the numbers…again! I wanted to love it. I loved so much of his previous work but…nope! It’s not bad. ADB’s writing style has too much flair for him to write a bad book. But it was just so dull and samey. Subjective of course!

I disagree now… VoT is very much within the centre of things going down in the metaplot but Wraight takes a narrative route whereby we the audience know more about what is happening than the characters we are following because those characters are not major players in any way. Something I prefer. While I have not particularly enjoyed the DoF series (not read all yet), some of my favourite 40k “scenes” were in Avenging Son when following a nobody character trying to get a message through the byzantine Terran bureaucracy (although as I type that I am now questioning whether that was in VoT or WotT series? Hmmm!) However, for me those linkages on Terra were brilliant. I enjoy the occasional “let’s see what the big cheeses are up to” novel, but really, for the most part, the joy of those stories was drained by the HH and SoT. I prefer to read about the little guy, trying to survive against the odds. That’s why I miss WH Crime a lot! Those books, and books focused on the Inquisition, are far more interesting than “super soldiers fight more battles” stuff. However, I am clearly in a minority as if those type of novels sold better GW would do more of them, but people clearly want space marines blowing :cuss: up!

That was a pretty dull “ADB paints by his usual numbers” disappointment to me. As I read it I just felt I had read it all before in previous ADB books. I had high hopes having loved his previous books.

*sigh* but then as long as we buy them then they will make them! GW/BL know a significant chunk of their customer base are “collectors” so releasing a series almost guarantees a certain level of sales.

So they are doing this as a “sequential” series not a setting! Shame! Could have been a sandbox and let authors cover events that interested them. There is a roman numeral “I” on the spine and this looks similar in design to Siege of Terra.

I agree. BL have had 20 years to figure out how to execute long running multi-author series, you know PLAN IT OUT WITH A ROADMAP AND SPECIFIC PLOT POINTS TO HIT but no, just go mess around in the sandpit pretending it is a coherent series. BL (and GW) do settings, pretty well. So a HH setting and a 40k setting in a BIG galaxy, works fine! I truly hope if they ever do decide to do the Age of Apostasy that it is a setting rather than an attempt at a sequential series!

THIS makes me very SAD! I too thought this was going to be an epilogue and also wrap up some unfinished plots. I hoped it was also a springboard to a The Scouring series. So another BL fail goddamit! My standard hardback is on order because, as BL know, we like to have our neat collections. After taking over a year out from BL fiction after tEatD books 1-73 (apart from the brilliant Interceptor City) I had hoped this might rekindle some interest. Not looking forward to this now. SAD!

I agree. I would rather have had the entire HH series than not. Within that mammoth bloated series is a paired down amazing series (but what that contains will forever be subjective). I personally think the HH should have been a setting rather than a series.

The number of novels was overblown, but the Siege of Terra was not “one battle”!!! It was a planet wide war with multiple concurrent battles. Just saying.

I would bet that Abnett wrote 2 and a bit novels for tEatD and instead of editing it down to 2 books GW/BL said “can you expand it to 3 books” so they all (inc Abnett, made more bank. It was not envisaged as 3 books. That came later with all those “fragments”

Aha makes sense, didn’t even think of looking being honest! Good news = I would expect the lore to improve and have better internal consistency. Bad news = as we have see this will/is badly impact on his novel writing output. Guess with a growing family a steady salary is preferable to freelancing and relying on advances and royalties!

How do you fraters KNOW that ADB was appointed as GW Head of Narrative?