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Monday, March 08, 2010
A chance to get your hands on A Thousand Sons
I went to Cardiff this weekend, though it took a long time to get there... Thanks to some spectacular signal failage, it took me six and a half hours to get from Nottingham to Cardiff (and three hours of that was getting to Derby - via Chesterfield...). Eventually I got there, and a great time was had by all, so if you were one of the supremely patient folk who waited for me to get there, thank you very much. And thanks to Steve and his guys for keeping the baying mob placated while I was horribly delayed...
Despite the long journey, I had a great time in Cardiff, with some real good chats, lots of signing and a proper long day of back and forth with fans.
I heard a lot of positive feedback on A Thousand Sons, and there's a rather nice review of the book at MyBattalion.com, which you can read
here
.
And another at Civilian Reader, which you can read
here
.
And if these reviews fire you up for reading the book, you can potentially win a copy of A Thousand Sons by visiting Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. Click
here
for your chance to win.
Cheers and speak to you soon.
3/8/2010 10:36:11 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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3/8/2010 12:13:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Hey Graham, for me personally waiting was not a problem... it was nice to finally have someone come and visit us in Cardiff!
It was a real pleasure to have a chat to the man who wrote my favourite heresy series novels and I only wish it could have lasted longer; so many questions, so little time!
Incidentally, when you mentioned playing Call of Cthulu - I forgot to show you the CoC t shirt I was wearing under my Wales jersey... doh!
Anyway, thanks for your time and persistence in getting here despite Network Rail's attempt to sabotage it!
Sam
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3/8/2010 11:44:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
(Whatever happens to posts I make? They go fyoosh and disappear, it seems. Ahwell, write again...)
Finished the book a week ago. Verdict? Flippin' awesome.
What did make me start actively looking up your books was the way you don't write standard 40K fiction. There's something more there. The prime example is The Last Church, but here it was delivered once again.
To start feeling sympathy, yah, even cheering for, the Thousand Sons...? I've heard people say they thought "the ending" (however you supposedly define that in terms of pages and events) was too short, but the rest of the book had all right in the world to take up the limelight. And it does feel as if whatever is NOT said, is going to be expanded on in later HH novels.
I'm not a literary critic, I just read a few courses on the matter of that, and of writing, but it has enhanced my reading - without going analytic and nitpicky, I still look a bit deeper than I did before. And there are so many little details and hidden depths here and there. The Thousand Sons got the complexity they needed, the explanations, the build-up. Once again I thought about never again reading a HH book, because one knows that no matter if everything is awesome... it's all going to go to hell anyway. All is dust, indeed.
This book had me crying openly on the commuter train (whatever do I care if random strangers see that? pfah), somewhere closer to the end... The Council of Nikea. Magnus realisation. Ahriman's realisation. All that was lost... But yes, most of all, Magnus, and what he did, and discovered, and what he realised he had done.
Once again I wish I wasn't a loyalist :3 It's horrible to have your belief ripped apart like this ^-^
And... now, I'm a fan of Epic myself, and what with the Knights in Mechanicum (which most people know nothing about, indeed, I'd overlooked them myself)... is that, at the end there, a Psi-Titan? Very, very sly, if so. Much appreciated.
Also, on the Battle Missions Kill Team Challenge shelf in a cabinet at work, is a kill team made during the past week by that Ellie chick working there. Five Rangers, weapons inconspicuously trained at someone elses kill team, and then, five Howling Banshees, fronted by an Exarch with mirrorswords.
I could never have resisted, even if I wanted.
Elenaria
3/10/2010 12:46:50 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
...and then I noticed the "Khalophis Titan" in the Horus Heresy Collected Visions. Sorry.
Elenaria
3/15/2010 8:06:19 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Hi Graham
Literally the best book I have ever written. Not best sci-fi, not best HH, best book! OK, I'm hugely biased towards 40k and HH but damn, I got more complaints from my wife for ignoring her while reading this book than any other. I found myself exclaimg out loud at several sections, which, apart from being the nerdiest thing I have ever done, really hit home to me what a good read this was. It was so good I can't see it being topped. But then again I said that about Mechanicum....
Peter
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3/15/2010 8:07:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
oops, I meant "best book I have ever READ"
Peter
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3/16/2010 5:59:23 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Wow, am just starting Thousand Sons in the States and it is amazing! Also just saw the sample artwork for Iron Warrior, You've outdone yourself and given us a healthy dose of Honsou until the final Ultramarines book comes out Graham. To bad I'm in the states and have to wait.
Rene
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3/16/2010 11:01:22 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Hey all,
Glad you're all enjoying A Thousand Sons, but be sure not to ignore better halves...they don't like it! Rene, remember that it was the awesome Neil Roberts that did the art for Iron Warrior, not me!
Thanks again, everyone.
Graham
1/1/2012 4:21:36 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Cheers pal. I do appreciate the wtriing.
Maverick
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