How to: enjoy a Horus Heresy novel that isn't by Dan Abnett or James Swallow

[arachnekallisti]

Soundtrack is your friend. VNV Nation generally makes everything a bit more epic, as does E. S. Posthumous:.

Perhaps the best choice is Gary Numan's Exile, given that it's an industrial concept album about the War In Heaven. Adds absolute shedloads of epic even if you're trying to cope with Graham McNeill's writing style.

Note 1: do make sure you have your MP3 player set to cycle through tracks by artist, not by artist in order. Fulgrim with a soundtrack by Half Man Half Biscuit was just... unsettling.

Note 2: if the novel in question is Battle for the Abyss, hit the absinthe. You may end up hallucinating a plot and characters.

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[logmplus1.livejournal.com]

My mum's ex, who was more-or-less my dad for several years and who's still a good family friend, is HMHB's drummer.

THIS MAKES ME ALMOST FAMOUS, RIGHT?

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

It does as far as I'm concerned!

[ignisophis.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure even a whole bottle of absinthe could save Battle for the Abyss - the problem isn't so much the lack of plot and characters as the dreadful, dreadful way both are handled!

WHile HMHB don't work for Fulgrim, I can see them maybe working for a Thousand Sons novel?

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Tzzentch in his aspect as God of Total Bloody Surrealism? Possibly. Although there's an article here on the sheer amount of death, mayhem, suicide and general carnage in their lyrics; based on that, might well work for one of the Khornate ones?

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Working on it! I'm trying to decide whether to stick to WH40K as a fandom, or just write a survival guide to fannishness in general.