Le 9 avril 2013 la Black Library publiera en anglais un roman inédit de l'Hérésie d'Horus : Angel Exterminatus de Graham McNeill. Un roman qui mettra en scène les primarques Perturabo et Fulgrim à la tête de leurs Légions respectives.


Présentation :

==> ANGEL EXTERMINATUS de Graham McNeill. Perturabo - master of siegecraft, and executioner of Olympia. Long has he lived in the shadow of his more favoured primarch brothers, frustrated by the mundane and ignominious duties which regularly fall to his Legion. When Fulgrim offers him the chance to lead an expedition in search of an ancient and destructive xenos weapon, the Iron Warriors and the Emperor's Children unite and venture deep into the heart of the great warp-rift known only as 'the Eye'. Pursued by a ragged band of survivors from Isstvan V and the revenants of a dead eldar world, they must work quickly if they are to unleash the devastating power of the Angel Exterminatus! Perturabo - maître de siège, et bourreau d'Olympia. Longtemps il a vécu dans l'ombre de ses frères Primarques plus favorisées, frustrés par les fonctions banales et ignominieuses affectées régulièrement à sa Légion. Lorsque Fulgrim lui offre la chance de mener une expédition à la recherche d'une arme xenos très ancienne et destructrice, les Iron Warriors et les Emperor's Children s'unissent et s'aventurent profondément au le cœur de la grande faille du Warp connue seulement sous le nom de "l'Oeil". Poursuivis par un groupe armé et hétéroclite de survivants d'Istvaan V et les revenants d'un monde mort Eldar, ils doivent faire vite si ils veulent exploiter la puissance dévastatrice de "l'Ange Exterminatus"!

Ci-dessous : couverture originale du roman (source = Amazon UK)



Aujourd'hui Graham McNeill a mis à jour son blog en annonçant le début de la rédaction de son prochain roman HH: Angel exterminatus et en donnant quelques informations.

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Begin at the Beginning... Beginnings are important. Here's a verbatim snippet of text from Tubb03's Blog that encapsulates it perfectly, it's a Grade 07/08 Blog that shows that even pretty young kids know it: “The beginning is the time the catch and keep your readers. A beginning of a story is very important, if you don’t get you readers eye at the beginning they are not going to read the rest of your story, even if the middle of the story or the end of the story is really good they will never know.” Out of the mouths of babes and innocents, eh? So, with Priests of Mars off with the Editors, I'm in the early stages of my next Heresy novel, Angel Exterminatus, in the pleasing position of having all the novel synopsises (do you know how many times I typed that word...?) ahead of me till the end of the year done. Since my last venture into Heresyland, I've been to Arkham, the 41st Millennium, the Age of Legends and the Old World, but now it's time to get back to the treason of the Warmaster, and boy, am I looking forward to this one. Last time, I dabbled in the fascinating, murky waters around the main thrust of the Heresy with The Outcast Dead, but now I'm getting back to playing with the Big Toys; Space Marine Legions and the Primarchs. Angel Exterminatus is going to be a big book for a number of reasons, and in a number of ways, most of which I can't really elaborate on for fear of spoiling the surprise or venturing into waters I haven't yet charted, since this book is still in its Beginning Phase. And that's kind of the theme of this blog entry, new beginnings. I sometimes struggle with the beginnings of books. I know the plots, the characters and the overarching themes/plots I want to cover, but getting the right fit up front is so important to me that I often spend the first few weeks on the opening two or three chapters, which is a lot longer than I want to spend there. But I'm a firm believer that if the foundations you set up at the beginning of a book aren't right, then the rest of the novel just won't stand up straight, you'll constantly be pulled askew by the bad start you've made and won't be able to get back without building it all up again from scratch (see, all those years at university studying architecture and building surveying weren't wasted!). I've scrapped beginning after beginning, rewritten, rearranged and re-just-about-everything-else with quite a few of my novels, because that nagging voice in my head keeps telling me that something's not quite right. That voice is almost never wrong. The other voices...? Well, time will tell... With Angel Exterminatus, I'm in that stage of a novel where I'm finding the fit of it all, the right voice for the characters, the clothes they're wearing and and the scenery they ought to be chewing in their dialogue. I'm feeling my way around. I know this place, but it's been a while since I visited, so I'm limbering up for a long haul. It's a slow process, like going on a date with a whole lot of people at once, some you know vaguely, some are new to you and some are strangers who've just walked in after hearing that there's a free buffet. And you have to impress them all. Like going on speed dating and hoping to get everyone's number at the end of it all. It takes a lot for everything to align at once, but when it does, as it has now...then it's a great feeling to know, just know with utter certainty, that it's working, that it's bloody right. That this is how it ought to be done. The first couple of chapters of Angel Exterminatus are set post-Isstvan V and deal with the Iron Warriors prior to the arrival of the Emperor's Children for a meeting between Perturabo and Fulgrim. It's taken a while to get right, inventing new things to make sure that the Iron Warriors and Emperor's Children feel like no other Legions, that they have their own character and don't inadvertently end up as pantomime villains – a common pitfall of portraying the Chaos Space Marines. I want to ensure that the scenes, dialogue and vibe the reader gets will lead them to the Iron Warriors or Emperor's Children even if I took out all the specific names and unit types. It means striking a balance between what people already know, what they want to see and what I want to achieve with the book. Certainly these legions are very close to my heart, and I know that a lot of people like them too (the steady sales of Storm of Iron and Fulgrim tell me as much...). And since it's a joint novel between them, I don't want one to overshadow the other. At least until the end... I'm at that point now, with a through line that works in what was established for the Legions back in the Index Astartes days and what's come since. Over the years other people have written the Iron Warriors and Emperor's Children, of course, but in my head, they're still mine. Which is a patently ridiculous notion, given that they exist in a shared universe, tie-in fiction realm, but still...they're mine. Which is how you have to feel if you're going to write anything with conviction and love and passion. If you don't write thinking that this is the only way these guys can be portrayed, then you're not invested enough. So I want to make sure they meet everyone's expectations of the masters of siege warfare and decadent excess (not least of all, again, mine...). To make them my own, I wanted to invent new traditions, new colour schemes, new units, new names and new....everything, all of which needed to be introduced in a way that didn't feel like an Index Astartes article or an excerpt from a Codex. All that white heat of creation takes time and effort and imagination that combines in a witches brew of sitting around looking like I'm not doing very much at all, doodling with words and sounds on a notepad and scouring my books/net for interesting resonances with the subject matter. All of which is a long way of saying that the beginnings of a novel are just about the most important part of a novel, so get it right... But. There's always a but. There's always the danger that in that obsessive quest for perfection you end up spending the lion's share of the time you have to write the novel on the beginning. It's a trap I've not often fallen into, thankfully, but it would be apt in this case since the Emperor's Children are just about to turn up...

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- Ci-dessous : artwork réalisé par Niel Robert qui servira pour la couverture du roman.

Zoomsur les Eldars pas vraiment vivants


Zoom sur les 2 primarques: Perturabo et Fulgrim

- Ci-dessous, vidéo datant du 21 novembre 2011 dans laquelle Graham McNeill parle pour la première fosi de ce futur roman :

- Ci-dessous enfin, fake de la cover du roman (réalisé par Solathen) :

Donc si j'ai bien suivis, Priest of Mars est en cours d'impression et McNeill dans Angel Exterminatus nous racontera l'HH du point de vue de Iron Warriors.

Hum, je suis vraiment curieux de connaître leur fluff.

PS : merci d'avoir mis la source

Oui, exacte et on sait que McNeill a deux bébés : Fulgrim et Perturabo =D

J'espère comme toi qu'il n'y aura pas trop de Fulgrim dans ce nouveau tome.

Il ressort clairement que les deux premiers chapitres de ce roman (déjà finis à priori) décrivent des événments se déroulant avant le massacre d'Istvaan V.
Une présentation des interactions existantes entre les Emperor's Children et les Iron Warriors, et un développement plus poussé de la relation qu'il y a entre Fulgrim et Perturabo.
Aurons-nous droit à de nouveaux passages descriptifs d'Istvaan V (comme il y en a dans les romans Fulgrim et Le Premier hérétique) ? Probablement...

Et ensuite ? Mystère... et

Spoiler:

Je présume que ce roman va s'intéresser surtout à Perturabo et aux Iron Warriors, au comment et au pourquoi il a rejoint Horus, et aux événements de la rébellion sur Olympia ! Une véritable tragédie en perspective... Notes sur Perturabo (d'après le Lexicanum Fr) : Plusieurs raisons explique pourquoi Perturabo a rejoint la rébellion. La frustration de voir son armée déconsidérée et éparpillée, de voir son talent peu reconnu, de voir que même sa planète d'origine refuser son autorité, sa haine contre Rogal Dorn. De plus, Horus fournit à Perturabo un marteau appelé le Forgebreaker, ce qui scelle leur amitié ; cette arme maléfique aide la chute du Primarque. Le dernier coup porté à Perturabo est la rébellion de sa planète à la mort de Dammekos. En plus de devoir constamment prouver sa valeur, Perturabo est maintenant honteux d'être le seul Primarque incapable de se faire respecter sur son propre monde. Il soupçonne Rogal Dorn d'être responsable des troubles. La répression lancée par les Iron Warriors est terrible, et quand Perturabo prend conscience de ses actions, ses mains sont pleines de sang. Alors qu'il se prépare à se faire réprimander, l'Hérésie commence. Source Perturabo La quasi-destruction d'Olympia par les Iron Warriors lors de leur répression expliquerait largement l'origine du titre de ce roman : Angel Exterminatus !

C'est intéressant et je trouve ça biens qu'ils exploitent le passé de primarques qu'on ne connait encore que top peu.

Le 6 avril sur Fortress of Hera:

Citation:

"Something fell from the sky, vast and iron, monstrous and cold. It landed in the heart of the citadel with the booming clang of a funeral bell; the Olympian master of battle, a demigod in burnished warplate, a hammer-wielding avatar of thunder. Perturabo, the Lord of Iron."

Ah, ça va parler du primarque râleur, mais c'est génial. Quoique...je reconnais qu'il a de bonnes raisons d'avoir la haine, ce petit.

Cela va être une histoire intéressante sur un Primarque qu'on ne connait que très peu et de savoir de quelle façon il a rejoins Horus dans son Hérésie.

Fabius Bile a sans doute récupéré la tête de Ferrus Manus et veut la faire empailler pour l’exposer ensuite comme un trophée dans son salon. LOL!

Ou se srvir de son code génétique... C'est Fabius Bile, pas un Noise marine, ses études portent sur la création et la vie, non la destruction et la mort.

Mise à jour du premier message de ce topic avec rajout de l'artwork et du fake de couverture réalisé par Solathen.

Je n'aurai autant centré la cover sur Perturabo,mais ce n'est que mon avis.

Très bel artwork de Neil Roberts. Je suis impressionné.

Marrant ça, on va finir par en savoir plus ce roman avant même que la BL poste une info officielle dessus. On connait même pas sa date de sortie !

Magnifique couverture! Elles deviennent de plus en plus réussies j'ai l'impression.

Salut,

La vache , un des plus beau « artwork » sur l’Hérésie…

Si le contenu du bouquin est égal a la beauté de sa couverture, sa va donner… (En plus en apprendre un peu plus sur Perturabo et sa légion que du bonheur …)