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

Uriel Ventris a écrit:
Par contre c'est bizarre qu'ils nous parlent de ça, vu qu'on aura pas le droit à une version française, et encore heureux vu la gueule du doublage en France depuis quelques années...

Look what just arrived in the office!

These boxes contain the unabridged audiobooks of Dan Abnett’s Prospero Burns and Graham McNeill’s A Thousand Sons, and as you’d expect from the first Horus Heresy novels to be released as unabridged CD sets, they look amazing.
The audiobooks themselves are equally amazing, not to mention massive. Each one comes on a dozen CDs, and the combined listening time of both is a whopping 29 hours!

If you’ve not read the novels yet let us fill you in:
Prospero Burns and A Thousand Sons are two perspectives on an epic saga of treachery and war. As the Horus Heresy rages, the Space Wolves – a horde of proud, vicious barbarians – are sent to obliterate the Thousand Sons – a brotherhood of warrior-mystics – for dabbling in vile sorcery. A bitter feud begins on Prospero that will last for 10,000 years.

ABOUT 25 FOR 25

25 For 25 is a collection of 25 of the best Warhammer 40,000 short stories. It contains stories previously unavailable in eBook format, by a collection of Black Library's authors, including Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, James Swallow, William King and more...

Table of contents:

Pestilence – Dan Abnett
Wrath of Kharn – William King
Sacrifice – Ben Counter
Red Reward – Mitchel Scanlon
The Last Detail – Paul Kearney
At Gaius Point – Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Mistress Baeda’s Gift – Braden Campbell
Survivor – Steve Parker
The Heraclitus Effect – Graham McNeill
Flesh – Chris Wraight
Even Unto Death – Mike Lee
The Carrion Anthem – David Annandale
Bitter End – Sarah Cawkwell
On Mournful Wings – Simon Spurrier
Ancient History – Andy Chambers
The Burning – Nick Kyme
A Good Man – Sandy Mitchell
Suffer Not The Unclean To Live – Gav Thorpe
Orphans of the Kraken – Richard Williams
Bloodline – James Swallow
Snares and Delusions – Matthew Farrer
The Curiosity – Dan Abnett
The Skull Harvest – Graham McNeill
Gate of Souls – Mike Lee
Xenocide – Simon Jowett

February 2012 • eBook, digital download - • ISBN 9780857875907 - 17.99 €

25 Facts for 25 Years

Unless you’ve been hiding under a pile of books this weekend, you’ll know that on Saturday, Warhammer 40,000 turned twenty-five years old. We thought it would be cool to explore twenty-five facts about Warhammer 40,000 that you maybe hadn’t heard before.

1) The first ever Black Library novel was Dan Abnett’s First and Only.
2) There are over two hundred Black Library books set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, as well as a host of audio dramas and art books.
3) Gobbledegook was a goblin comic character semi-regularly appearing in his own column in White Dwarf until about issue 100. In one issue he even teleported through a magical gateway and ended up fighting Space Marines.
4) All of the Space Marine Battles novels are based on famous battles that have appeared in codexes and rulebooks.
5) When designing the box game Space Marine it was too expensive to produce a xenos sprue, so after finding an obscure reference to an Imperial civil war in Rick Priestly’s original writings, the box included a red sprue and a blue sprue of Space Marines and the Horus Heresy was born!
6) Dan Abnett makes reference to this in Know No Fear, see if you can spot it...
7) Ian Watson’s novel Space Marine featured Zoats and Slann, long before they appeared in the Warhammer world.
The battle for Rynn’s World was first immortalised on the cover for Rogue Trader and has since been made into a novel by Steve Parker.
9) The first ever Space Marne Bike was called the ‘Vincent Black Shadow’.
10) Dan Abnett’s Colonel Commissar Ibram Gaunt appeared in novels before becoming a model and even getting his own rules in the previous edition of the Imperial Guard codex.
11) There have been six iterations of rules for Space Marines, each developing the army, adding in new units and characters, many of whom have gone on to feature in novels of their own.
12) Leman Russ is the only primarch to have had a model made of him.
13) It is a common misconception that orks speak to each other in thick cockney accents. In fact, they rarely use Gothic and instead converse in their own language.
14) One of the first uses of the phrase ‘Dakka Dakka’ was in the classic comic strip ‘Deff Skwadron’.
15) Space Marines featured briefly in an issue of Thrudd the Barbarian.
16) Games Workshop started a record label in the early nineties. They had a band called D-rok who sang heavy metal songs about 40k.
17) "Teef" are widely used as ork currency - they grow back very quickly. Value is determined by the size and width of the toof. It’s not uncommon for an ork to undergo "sergery" to fix a problem, and wake up with no teef left, and the Dok nowhere to be found.
18) Some ork stormboyz used to worship Khorne, but this was seen by other orks as being 'just a phase' and being a bit juvenile.
19) Orks are actually a fungal race, which might explain why they are so hard to kill.
20) Alpharius was the last of the primarchs to be rediscovered by the Emperor.
21) The word ‘Freki’, the name of one of Russ’s wolves means ‘fierce’ in Fenrisian.
22) Ferrus Manus was the first primarch to die at the hands of one of his brothers, during the Horus Heresy.
23) The symbol that Garro and his Knights Errant wear on their shoulder is actually Malcador’s ‘Eye’, not the commonly believed inquisitorial =][=.
24) The Sisters of Battle were originally called the ‘Brides of the Emperor’.
25) The primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion El’Johnson was named after a nineteenth century English poet, Lionel Johnson, who wrote a poem called ‘The Dark Angel’.

Check out 25 for 25 for twenty-five more slices of Warhammer 40,000. It’s a new eBook collection of twenty-five of the best Warhammer 40,000 short stories from the last twenty-five years.

Samedi dernier, nous avons fêté le 25e anniversaire de Warhammer 40,000, et les hobbyistes aux quatre coins de l’hexagone se sont rassemblés pour célébrer à notre manière : en recréant les plus célèbres batailles du 41e Millénaire. Chez Black Library, on ne voulait surtout pas manquer ça, alors nous avons monté un stand à Warhammer World (malheureusement de notre côté de la Manche), pour mettre nos toutes dernières nouveautés à disposition des fans.

La salle de jeux était pleine à craquer, avec une queue qui s’étendait jusqu’en dehors de Warhammer World. Entre les 300 participants au tournoi en double et tous les hobbyistes présents juste pour l’occasion, nous avons compté un bon millier de fans présents. L’équivalent d’un chapitre Space Marines !

Non contents de simplement participer aux festivités, nous avons voulu marquer le coup en sortant un eBook exclusif à cette occasion si spéciale. 25 sur 25 est une incroyable compilation de 25 nouvelles se situant dans l’univers de Warhammer 40,000, par une sélection de nos meilleurs auteurs. Avis aux anglophiles !

Mais les francophones sont aussi bien servis en matière de nouvelles à télécharger, avec Craignez l’Alien et Les Mondes de Sabbat, actuellement disponibles.

Mais les francophones sont aussi bien servis en matière de nouvelles à télécharger, avec Craignez l’Alien et Les Mondes de Sabbat, actuellement disponibles.

There can be no more noble and awe-inspiring sight than a fully armoured Space Marine soaring into battle on a jetbike, guns blazing and power sword held high, ready to decapitate the foes of the Imperium. In this new cover for Gav Thorpe’s forthcoming novel Ravenwing, we get to see Sammael, Master of the Ravenwing, doing just that. Well, who else would it be?
This is the first piece of art that Jorge Fares has done for Black Library. We’d say he’s off to a flying start (sorry, couldn’t resist). There is a great sense of scale in this piece. The warships soaring overhead and the pall of smoke shrouding the battlefield, so that all you can see is the flash of muzzle-fire and the indistinct shapes of tanks and explosions give an epic feel to the battle scene.

The Ravenwing stand apart from the rest of the Dark Angels Chapter – these dynamic Space Marines take to the battlefield upon steeds of adamantium and steel, and swoop from the skies in lightning-fast speeders to bring death to the foes of the Imperium. Led by the heroic Master Sammael, they prosecute war where their battle-brothers cannot, and are ever at the forefront of the Dark Angels’ campaigns.

dites-donc, quelqu'un sait pourquoi l'aigle plaqué sur le devant de la moto-jet n'a qu'une seule tête?

« Inspiration est mère de créativité »


Les romans Black Library sont tellement pleins de personnages attachants et de batailles épiques, ce n’est pas étonnant que tellement de personnes s’en inspirent pour construire leurs armées.
Richard Beckett est un excellent exemple.
Richard est venu nous rendre visite au stand que nous tenions au dernier tournoi en double de Warhammer 40,000, qui avait lieu à Warhammer World.

Comme vous pouvez le voir, Il a peint sa figurine aux couleurs de l’Inquisiteur Czevak, le héros de Atlas Infernal. L’armée qu’il a créée pour le tournoi est en effet inspirée des exploits de Czevak dans ses tentatives de cambriolage de la très secrète Bibliothèque Interdite des eldars.

Rob Sanders était présent, occupé à signer les exemplaires disponibles en avant-première de son nouveau roman : La Légion des Damnés (Disponible en français plus tard cette année, visitez notre site pour vous tenir au courant).
Voici une photo de Rob et de la figurine de Czevak.



Les événements Black Library sont toujours une opportunité de rencontrer les auteurs, mais si vous voulez tous les voir dans l’espace d’un week-end, c’est au Black Library Weekender que ça se passe !