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Chargement... The Blood Angels Omnibuspar James Swallow
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Blood Angels, one of the first founding Space Marines outfits, are a very strange breed of Space Marines. Suffering from uncontrollable rage attacks (sort of a gene imposed disease of sorts) that they constantly fight to keep under control (although it eventually destroys them) they are what you may call the Vampires - both in appearance and in extremely violent and blood-thirsty behavior. But nevertheless when one considers that this storyline takes place in war-torn apocalyptic post-Heresy period I find it refreshing to have all Space Marines portrayed as human beings with their doubts and fears. Story is based around the plot of Chaos led Space Marines to corrupt the Blood Angels (and eventually all chapters that were created on the basis of the original Sanguinus' Legion) and bring them to the "dark-side" so to speak. Interesting collection. Recommended. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieBlood Angels (Omnibus 1-2 (June 2008)) Warhammer 40,000 (fiction) (Omnibus of Blood Angels novels 1-2 (Jun 2008))
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As it turned out, there was only a single character from the game (Lexicanium Calistarius) who appears in this book, and that mostly under a different name (Mephiston), since these stories take place some centuries after the Space Hulk adventure. Still, the stories communicated the general setting, as well as the particular notion of the "Death Company": the squad composed of Blood Angels who have succumbed to their genetically-transmitted homicidal madness.
One annoying feature of the Warhammer 40K setting is the gramatically-hopeless dog Latin used to represent the "High Gothic" hieratic language of the Terran Empire. I also find the continued centrality of the human homeworld of Terra over a score of millennia to be a little hard to credit. Still, the easiest comparisons are to Dune and Star Wars, each of which has probably contributed some significant inspiration to the working out of this fictional universe. Conceptually, it is certainly a cut above Star Wars. The parallel to the mystical/psionic "Force" of the Jedi and Sith in these stories is directly bound up with the warping of space and extradimensionality that makes faster-than-light interstellar travel possible (again, compare Dune), and the warp is inherently "evil" in that it is inimical to the homeostasis of human societies and organisms. It is the home of daemon lords and their attendant Yog-Sothotheries, and their efforts to corrupt and mutate the Blood Angels are central to the narrative in this volume.
These stories are extremely violent, and the superhuman physiognomies of both Space Marines and the forces of Chaos sometimes incline the violence to the "comic book" sort, although the graphic descriptions of organic mayhem would never have passed the old "comics code." Becoming a Space Marine involves radical surgeries and genetic treatments that add new organs, and evidently, subtract some old ones: there is not an iota of sexual consciousness evident in any of the Blood Angels. This feature might be a plus in peddling books like this to an adolescent male gamer crowd, who might seek refuge from their hormones in tales of violent adventure. There are few women in the book (only two with names, I believe), and they are all cast as victims of the principal villain. There is, however, symbolic sex aplenty for the Blood Angels and their fans: a magic spear transmits the ancient power of their Primarch Sanguinius, and a Red Grail is the chief devotional artifact of their cult.
In addition to the three pieces of fiction, there are two further documents bound into this omnibus: the author's foreword, reflecting on how he came to write the stories, and an appended "minipedia" extracted from the author's original working notes. The latter should be avoided by those reading the book for the first time, as it is mostly stuffed with spoilers.