15 histoires pour célébrer les 15 ans de la Black Library

Black Library fête son 15e anniversaire aujourd’hui avec la première nouvelle exclusivement numérique d’une série de quinze. Pour les Anglophones, vous pouvez télécharger Kill Hill de Dan Abnett pour 1,00€. Participez aussi à la conversation dédiée à cette histoire sur twitter, avec la référence #BLis15.

Quant à Black Library France, notre premier anniversaire est au mois de Mai, et nous comptons bien fêter ça ! En plus du gâteau habituel et des petits chapeaux rigolos, nous aimerions savoir ce que nos fidèles lecteurs voudraient pour célébrer ce moment historique. Laissez un message avec vos idées sur notre page Facebook, et nous verrons ce que l’on peut faire pour vous !

Birthdays are always something to celebrated, and particularly when it’s a milestone. This week is just such an event for Black Library – the fifteenth anniversary of our very first published short story.

So, we’re celebrating. And as you’d expect, we’re doing so in style.

Starting today, we will be releasing a brand new short story each and every day until the 2nd of April. We start with the mighty Dan Abnett, who has taken a brief break from Heresy, Ghosts and Inquisitors to return to his Iron Snakes Space Marines (last seen in Brothers of the Snake) to tell us the story of Priad of Damocles on Kill Hill. Without further ado, here is Dan himself to introduce the tale:

'Kill Hill came to me in a flash. A story to celebrate fifteen years of Black Library, said the brief, and I thought, ‘Fifteen years? Really? Have I been writing for the God Emperor for that long? Feels like only yesterday.’

I don’t get to write about the classic 40K aliens much, so orks were fun to revisit, however briefly. One day I’m going to write an entire novel from an ork point of view. It’s going to be called ‘Whooz da Boss?’ Or ‘Hugo WarBoss’. I haven’t decided yet.

And I knew this story had to be about Space Marines. Inevitably, I sent a request for support to my own Chapter. For Ithaka and the Golden Throne!’

We’ll have similar intros from each of the authors across the next fifteen days. Of course, with so many great stories, the writers were clamouring to read them as well, and many of them have given us some mini-reviews and impressions to share with you. Here is Night Lords author and Dan’s ‘Number One Fan’ (seriously, he has a t-shirt), Aaron Dembski-Bowden:

‘Like the other bajillion feverish Dan Abnett fans, I've been dying for him to revisit the Iron Snakes ever since Brothers of the Snake basically rewrote the way the Adeptus Astartes were portrayed in fiction. For me, Kill Hill (tee hee!) was an awesome homecoming in more ways than one.’

John French, one of the contributors to Architect of Fate, also read Kill Hill and was seriously enthused:

‘In Kill Hill, Dan has given us a series of perfect heartbeats lived by a Space Marine in the middle of war. You don’t just see what happens, you feel it. The words make you feel it. The ultra-fast movements that seem slow, how you see the colours, the impact of an axe, the slowed pace of the Iron Snake’s battle perception: the words pick out individual details with perfect and selective clarity. But that’s not enough. Even in a thousand words Dan makes you feel that you are looking through a window into a real place, that if you were to turn around while reading you would see more details. In this way, Kill Hill is not a story. It’s a bloody slice of another reality.’

Thanks guys. You’ll see more from Aaron and John over the next fifteen days. Let us know what you think of Kill Hill, or share your favourite Black Library memories on our Facebook page, or on Twitter using the hashtag #BLis15.

It would be wrong of us to celebrate this momentous occasion without also going back and remembering how it all began, with Jonathan Green’s short story ‘The Hounds of Winter’, in Inferno! issue zero, which came as a supplement in White Dwarf magazine. If you want to revisit this tale, it is available in eBook form in The Dead and the Damned.

Join us tomorrow on the blood-drenched battlefields of the Warhammer World, as we get a terrifying offer from a monstrous enemy.

Emperor a écrit:
Vu le prix c'est sûrement très court. Ils auraient pu nous le traduire.

Varney a écrit:Je trouve ça un peu dommage que ce soit en E-book étant donné que je ne les achète pas et je trouve que ce serait plus intéressant de tout acheter d'un coup. Le concept est intéressant mais encore une fois, ça donne plus l'impression qu'ils veulent remplir un peu plus les caisses que vraiment nous faire plaisir.

Spoiler:

Malthos Hermner a écrit:En même temps, Black Library c'est comme Games Wokshop avec leurs tarifs...

Money is money, ça doit être ça leur crédot...

Uriel Ventris a écrit:D'un côté c'est le but de toute entreprise...

Et si on essayait de se concentrer sur les nouvelles et non pas sur le fait qu'on continu d'acheter leur matos alors qu'on sait pertinemment qu'on se fait avoir? Juste une simple idée comme ça...