Black Library’s “Promethean Sun” Up for Pre-Order

The publisher of Games Workshop-related fiction, Black Library (website, Twitter), is now accepting pre-orders for the new limited edition Horus Heresy novella, Promethean Sun.

Over the years I’ve read several of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40K books (Black Library books on Amazon.com*) and I think my favorites have to be the illustrated looks at the worlds.

And this newest release is quite tempting; the sample images and the teaser video on the Black Library website, combined with the print quality described, makes me think this is gonna be a gorgeous work of art. And while I understand that not everyone out there loves books as art, I also know I’m not alone in being fascinated by well-produced and attractively bound books.

This lavish, A5 hardback novella wrapped in faux salamander skin features an exclusive story that will not be printed anywhere else for at least two years. Only three thousand copies of this collectors’ edition novella will ever be printed – order your copy early to avoid disappointment.

The Great Crusade reaches a feral world known only as One-Five-Four-Four. The forces of the Imperium arrive to deliver the primitive natives from enslavement at the hands of the alien eldar. The Iron Hands of Ferrus Manus and Mortarion’s Death Guard fight in theatres of war across the world, but the most vicious combat takes place in the deep jungles, where Vulkan and the Salamanders bring the Emperor’s wrath to the heathen aliens.

Vulkan and his sons must brave the deadly jungles, battle monstrous reptilian beasts and contend with the vile sorcery of the eldar if they are to liberate this world and bring the Emperor’s light to its backwards inhabitants.