I have to admit that I was a bit hesitant about this omnibus.  I'd wanted to read these novels but they were written by C S Goto, whose work I had approached with trepidation before.

Fortunately for me, I was wrong.  While not as good as, say, Dan Abnett's "Gaunt's Ghosts" series, it's a solid workman piece of 40K fiction.

Taking its cue from the ( Read more... )

Back to some non-Horus Heresy Warhammer 40K fiction, and the last one for a while (probably).  It's more that I'm tired of writing about them than anything.

Scourge the Heretic by Sandy Mitchell is more of a tie-in to the new 40K roleplaying Dark Heresy than a stand-alone book.  And it's not a stand-alone book, either; a lot of the background really ( Read more... )

This is kind of an unfinished one, it feels like to me.  It's obviously intended to be the start of another series, or sub-series, or whatever you want to call it ( Read more... )

Don't worry, I'm almost done with 40K novels.  I've got this one and the final one (so far) in the Horus Heresy series, Descent of Angels.  Then I've got Scourge the Heretic which is mostly a tie-in novel to the Dark Heresy roleplaying game.  After that, I get to hit two of Travis S. Taylor's novels (Warp Speed and The Quantum Connection), and I'm ( Read more... )

Know that we've finished with the initial trilogy it's time for James Swallow's Flight of the Eisenstein.

As with the other books in this series, if you're familiar with the history of the 40K universe you know a bit about what's going on.  In this case, we're following Captain Garros (apologies if I mis-remembered his name; it's been more than a ( Read more... )

Here, under Ben Counter's stewardship, we hit the finale of the initial trilogy, as we follow our protagonists into the after-effects of Horus' near miraculous recovery from his fatal wound.

If you don't know 40K, or the series at all (say, like, maybe, the title) you might think "Hey, I wonder which way he picked" despite the hints (errr, it just ( Read more... )

(Trying to knock a few of these out ( Read more... )

I gave up on my usual rule of only buying Warhammer 40K omnibuses and started in on the Horus Heresy series.

It was a bit of a pain in the ass to figure out the order they went in.  It's not marked well on the books and I eventually had to go to the website and just look at what order they came out in.  This is the first one in the series, back when ( Read more... )

I'm sure my body will be happy now that I've finished with the latest Warhammer 40K omnibus, the second in the Gaunt's Ghosts series The Saint.  That's because I found myself reading it as my "cigar" book (what I read while outside smoking a cigar) and got so wrapped up in it that I found myself smoking more (and drinking more, and sleeping less) ( Read more... )

You may have been wondering on the lack of Runo Knows... lately.

I'm here to clarify that.

Uh...

Anyways, the last month or so has been characterized by me re-reading a number of books I've already done.  The Dexter books, for instance, as well as a couple of Warhammer 40K omnibuses.

Then I've had my new material.  The Lovecraft books typically get ( Read more... )