Okay, I admit with pride the past few months I am totally hooked on the novels of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in general in particular. The latest I have eaten in record time is Battle for the Abyss by Ben Counter, the eighth volume of the Horus Heresy Timun More publishing. This is a new meeting with the Warhammer 40,000 universe in which Ben tells counter an attack by the Word Bearers against Ultramarines. The result is another example of why I think George Lucas has squandered the wealth miserably narrative and plot and character possibilities I had in Star Wars with the new trilogy.
I do not play Warhammer, I've never played. But leaving the issue of the game on the sidelines, some of the novels being published in Spain on the Warhammer Universe Warhammer 40,000 in general and in particular, are far more interesting than many proposals space opera come to us from science fiction literature alien to this game. Dan Abnett for example has several outstanding examples that I will be addressing in the blog in the coming weeks, if the crisis is not just giving us all garrote.
addition, these novels are addictive. Just one and you feel like grabbing the next. And tell them their main key is the space opera , so nothing to find here hard science fiction. Hardly. This is science fiction pure and simple avoidance, warmongering, which is not good or bad they are all bastards, and where the mythology comes across an idea of \u200b\u200bcrusade frankly disturbing and some inherited landscapes and creatures and monsters HP Lovecraft's fantasies.
Some heroes are more sinister than the villains themselves. In fact I think it is a saga in which all are villains, or at least are morally quite lost in the idea of \u200b\u200bcrusade that leads them all head to the darker side imagined dark side of Lucas.
Counter This book forges a forced alliance between Space Wolves Leman Russ, the Angron Worlds Eaters, the Ultramarines of Guilliman and a captain of the Thousand Sons of Magnus. Facing each other will face the threat of taking the Word Bearers also between them and the dog and cat.
There is much The thing John Carpenter and creatures of E n the Mountains of Madness HP Lovecraft in the warp monsters that attack the ship in charge of pursuing an engine of destruction of worlds by inmaterium. But at the same time, along with creatures Lovecraftian cosmic horror and servers, as the ship supplicating Furious Abyss, there is a certain ability to incorporate Counter Horus Heresy novels keys on war ships Napoleon at sea addressed by authors such as CS Forrester and Patrick O'Brian.
That mix Star Wars, the novels of naval warfare, terror Lovecraft and the keys themselves the Warhammer universe in chaos of endless war, goes a military feats in history key entertaining space opera, versatile, intense epic in its own way.
Fragments explain this ability to hybridize themes and elements from different sources of inspiration, but especially make this battle for the abyss as one of the most terrifying incidents Warhammer 40,000.
"The world around them became increasingly bizarre as they penetrated deeper into the abyss Furioso. The ship was the size of a city and, as a city, had its hidden corners and its sights, beautiful views and discouraging neatly framed outskirts of decomposition. "
"The time has little meaning in the warp. The weeks become days, days turn into hours and hours become minutes. You can expand or contract, reversed or even cease to exist in the unfathomable depths of nowhere infinite, the infinite whole. "
"Fate is a network of interconnected strands of potential realities and possible futures. Eventualities flow through the branches and paradoxes ... "
I'm already keeping an eye on the next, say no more ...
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