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HH7: Legion by Dan Abnett (Patreon)

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We did both at once! Have a listen to the Book Club about MY favourite heresy book, LEGION by Dan Abnett

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Horus Heresy 7: LEGION by Dan Abnett

Right, enough of the big guns, it's time for a spy novel. Featuring angry crocodiles, alien conspiracies, slightly questionable recruitment practises and a guy called John, it's LEGION by Dan Abnett! Get this as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts OR on https://arbitorian.podbean.com/ Intro Art by @KCP FARGO Mira ► https://twitter.com/miramanga Mira's Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/miramanga/ Mira's Youtube Channel ►https://www.youtube.com/user/miramanga Support the channel on Patreon and vote on the next Book Club: Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/arbitorian Get your discount HOBBY FIX (and buy me toys in the process!!) Firestorm Games ► https://www.firestormgames.co.uk/?aff=6390a44b70fed Elsewhere on the internet: Twitter ► https://www.twitter.com/arbitorian Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/arbitorian Copyright: Unless noted in the video, all images © Games Workshop 1987-2022. Title music is 'Black Rainbows' by Karl Casey @White Bat Audio #bookclub #40klore #horusheresy #tabletopgames #40karchives #warhammer40000 #warhammer30k #wargaming #40khistory #blacklibrary #ravenor #eisenhorn #danabnett #bookclub

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James Larner

It might be my favourite too! The other contender is Know No Fear… 🤔

Klaus Meier Olsen

Absolutely my favorite. Feels like the intrigues of Dune set in WH40K. And "Primordial Annihilator" is a supremely metal name for Chaos.

Erik Gustafson

Another great book chat, many thanks! The conversation about Alpharius made me very curious to hear how you both would respond to Mike Brooks's "Alpharius: Head of the Hydra" book in the Primarchs series.

Tom
>>126546980

Honestly; Know Know Fear, Horus Rising and Legion pretty much work as excellent standalone sci fi novels - they’re that good. Prospero Burns is also excellent, but by its nature feels a little like half a story. I’ve been doing a deep dive into the series, and Abnett really is just head and shoulders above the other Heresy writers in his ability to find interesting viewpoints and craft memorable characters, and his literary flourishes and skill at worldbuilding just set him apart.

Tom

The audiobook is excellent. I might be alone is actually liking the odd, quasi-American accent the narrator gives John Grammaticus - it gives him an appropriate sense of otherness from the rest of the Imperium.

David Down

As Legion is also my favorite Horus Heresy novel, I've been really looking forward to this episode of the book club. Fabulous work as always, and I'm seriously anticipating Mira's interview with Dan. This book is why I play Alpha Legion (as loyalist space marines) in 40k, as well as in Heresy. I don't have the tattoo.... yet.

Jupiter Jones

The Geno 5-2 gets a blink and you miss it shoutout in the End and the Death, in a laundry list of regiments holding out in no mans land.

Jupiter Jones

John's voice in the audiobook isn't just American, he's extreemly nasaly. I was surprised when you described him as a James Bond style spy, because I always pictured him as a huge nerd, but now that idea has been out forward, I think I only thought he was a nerd because if his voice.

Jim Heneghan

Keeble decided to give John Gramaticus an American accent in the audiobooks. Some of the accents he gives seems to just be him trying to find a new unique voice for a character. In Mortis he gives a titan princeps a Belfast accent for no particular reason. For Jonny G I think he's trying to anchor our perception of John as someone from our time that is still alive in M31 by giving him an accent that is unusual in 40k but evokes a sense of the common man to an English language media consumer. Regarding the Alpha Legion's "flaw", and it's mentioned in this book as a reason the Cabal wants them, they might not have one. And when I say flaw I mean a "genetic flaw" like the Red Thirst as opposed to a nebulous "all me are flawed". It makes sense that they're more genetically stable. In part because of a spoiler but also because they were the 20th rep. The gene-crafters had learned from their mistakes with the earlier legions and produced a more stable gene-seed for the XXth as a result.

ArbitorIan
>>127437752

I think it's just the 'geno' bit which makes me wonder which one. Another book had a cameo by the geno 7-4 I think

Benjamin Howard

This book is beautiful. It’s difficult for me to pick a favorite but it’s definitely top 3 heresy books. At first the idea of perpetuals annoyed me but it did grow on me. The way Dan fleshes out his regiments and world builds is like no other writer in the Black Library. Made me plan on a heresy Alpha legion force some day.

Christopher Greenhill

Legion is easily top ten of anyone's Heresy list. It makes my top five. The subtleties of the Alpha Legion....yet the scale of there planning is just so engrossing. For those looking for more juicy Alpharious shenanigans give the Alpharious Primark book a read. Great book club as always! P.s. As an audio book listener, the voices have never really put me off. 😉