News de la Black Library (France et UK)- Part.2 - 2012

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The Definition of Epic

Epic. It’s a word that’s bandied around a lot these days: epic movie; epic savings; epic hotdogs. You know what we mean. But, it’s the perfect word to describe the new Time of Legends omnibuses, The Legend of Sigmar, The Sundering and The Rise of Nagash.

Dictionary.com defines epic as:

1) Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centred upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.

2) Resembling or suggesting such poetry.

3) Heroic; majestic; impressively great

4) Of unusually great size or extent.

There really isn’t a better way to describe these titles. Not only are they each focussed on a ‘hero’ (depending on your point of view) from the Time of Legends (Sigmar, Malekeith, Alith Anar, Caledor and Nagash), but each follows a ‘series of great events’ that fundamentally changed the Old World and turned it into the dark and dangerous place we all know and love.

Also, they are certainly ‘impressive’ due to their ‘unusually great size’. At around a thousand pages each, these books are huge.

So, if you want to make someone’s Christmas truly epic this year, order one (or more) of these titles and we’ll ship them to you in time for Christmas. (Check out the Christmas shipping dates here.)

While we’re talking about shipping, it would be remiss of us not to remind you that you can still get free standard shipping on all orders, but don’t delay, there are only four days left.

As promised, we have a huge amount of new stuff for you today, so without further ado, let’s get started...
First up, we have some new digital downloads. Perihelion by Dan Abnett is a new Eisenhorn and Ravenor short story that takes place in between the Ravenor story arc and Pariah. This provides some extra insight into the relationship between these two iconic characters and is a must-read for all fans of the series.

Secondly, we revisit the Sons of Russ in Doomseeker, an audio drama by Nick Kyme. We join Skeln (last seen in Thunder from Fenris) in the midst of hunting a mysterious, shadowy prey. What will it turn out to be? You’ll just have to download the audio drama to find out.

One of the editors at Black Library, Laurie Golding, is (according to his e-mail signature) a pedantic corrections goblin. He’s massively hot on consistency and has a very a sharp eye for things that have been said in one book that are contradicted by another one, or doesn’t match up with what has been said. There can be issues with the timeline, when you’ve got a character on a particular world, but it was established in another book that he could not be there at that particular moment. We also self-police. It’s not in our interest to break the background. It’s in our collective interests to keep the whole thing cohesive and reinforce that barely visible connective tissue between the books that makes it all feel like a living, breathing universe, where actions have consequences and things that happen in one book have ramifications in another. There may also be a situation where a character might walk in and out another author’s book. So we were very keen to maintain that level of consistency.

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