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Launch title of a major new fantasy series that brings the history of the Warhammer world to life. This novel kicks the series off with a bang with the story of Sigmar Heldenhammer, the legendary hero who founded the Empire.
- Sales Rank: #648150 in Books
- Brand: Games Workshop
- Published on: 2008-04-29
- Released on: 2008-04-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.10" h x 4.25" w x 6.77" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 416 pages
About the Author
Hailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in Surveying to join Games Workshop, where he worked for six years as a games developer. As well as seven novels, Graham has written a host of sf and fantasy short stories. He lives in Nottingham, UK.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Concept: 10; Implementation: 4
By Piecemeal
Love the concept but the implementation is disappointing. It lacks the human touch that makes some WF authors so enjoyable to read. The characters are the biggest flaw. They feel like cardboard cutouts. Let's play some Jeopardy: The one thing that you know ahead of time is going to be crucial in a novel that will bear the name of it's central character, who also happens to be the central character in the novel's historical setting, as a title?
What is "that character"?
I could hardly finish this novel, despite anticipating it hotly since I first heard about it. It gets two stars for the topic only. I seem to recall that Defenders of Ulthuan, also by Mr. McNeill, was similar (and I am a big High Elves guy).
On the plus, I appreciate that it is a tough topic, and I admire how, whether he intends it or not, McNeill doesn't make Sigmar out to be a holy figure. He is portrayed as a violently ambitious, socially advantaged and lucky man at a time of unique oportunities (though most of this goes unapologetically under the banner of "destiny") with little else than an unwavering vision and the ability to convince those around him, by any means necessary, to comply. That's the kind of realism I like in my "fantasy", and Warhammer delivers it. Unfortunately this version of the legend doesn't deliver much else worth paying attention to.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Time of Legends!
By Jacob G. Blair
An excellent book! Similar to the works of Jeff Grubb in so much as it is epic in scope without losing important characterzation. A truly masterful work.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A bard's tale...
By Felipe Wirth
To start things off, I'm a fan of Black Library books, as I find them so different from the usual tie-in books, a.k.a. books used to expand on an already famous subject. I may be on the minority here in claiming I have never played a Games Workshop wargame. Living in Brazil, such hobby is not only hard to practice (not too many people doing it) but also quite a stab to your wallet. My contact with the Warhammer universe was first realised through PC games, then some internet browsing on the subject, and finally with books. I have to say the universe (WH Fantasy and WH 40k) just flat out rocks, and every book in the mix just picks up the premise and, as a differential to all those other I.P. works, just builds a solid book, or series, on top of it all.
Picking up 'Heldenhammer', the second 'Time of Legends' book I've read, after Gav Thorpe's 'Malekith', and knowing I was about to read the tale of Sigmar, founder of the Empire, I was looking forward to being thoroughly entertained. You know what, to hell with it: I was entertained...
This is one of the most entertaining books I've read from BL so far, and I liked it from start to finish. Yet as I finished it, I wasn't possed by the all-too-familiar feeling of 'Oh, man, that was awesome, I need to order the second book of this series right away!' that so often leaves me pennyless. And that's the thing about this book: it takes no risks, it changes no stereotypes, it pretty much starts and finishes on the same note. It is one of the most predictable storylines I have ever read. Sure you don't know much about how Sigmar will forge his Empire, but once you read the title to each chapter, or at most read through the first paragraphs of those, you'll pretty much know what will happen for the next dozen pages or so. That the storyline is so predictable drops the reader in a safe-zone, where you are never on the edge about anything that is happening. The death of a character can be a heart-wrenching moment, but since you've picked up on the fact that he/she was going to die fifty pages earlier on the book, it never carries the punch required to elevate this story towards anything more than a broad-scoped tale of the rise of a God.
The broad scope makes the story akin to Tolkien's Silmarillion, and that feeling is only increased with the perfection of the character Sigmar... You want to know Sigmar? Picture Conan the Barbarian, then strip him of all humanizing features, you know, all the little flaws and characteristics that made him not perfect from a honor-bound point of view. Every 'dire' situation Sigmar faces will be countered by God-like inner strength or the berserk nature of his attacks. There's never a 'Oh my god he faces a (insert monster)!' moment in the book because you know that, him being perfect and all, he'll just find something on his inner self to give him strength before crushing the skull of his opponent with his Warhammer. In a sense you almost wonder if the author is going: 'Look at the glory of Sigmar! Don't you feel tears in your eyes on the noble nature of his character and how he is a model to all kings'
In fact that's one of the least memorable aspects of Graham McNeill's telling of Sigmar's rise to Emperor status: It is done with very little actual conquest of neighbouring tribes, and it is portraited as an elevation of the best amongst the great. Only a handful of characters in the book are anything but staunchly honorable warriors, which at times is the reason this feel's like a bard's tale. Sigmar talks of an Empire (not an alliance of men, an EMPIRE) and no King feels threatened, no jealousy errupts, no rebellion is in need of quelling. He talks of leading the united armies of men into battle under his command and every reluctant King is only considering that his men 'won't like to be led into battle by anyone but me' and all that... Then Sigmar admonished them all and they are all ashamed and promise to follow his orders... Somehow I figure that if Kings were treated as such by someone they knew was their superior in force of arms and charisma, they would, immediately after the battle behave in a manner akin to:
"Yey, we won! Now where's Sigmar? Let's kill him."
That's it... There's not that much difficulty. He doesn't grind his way to the top and learn from his mistakes (he makes no mistake, he was born with all his talents), he doesn't grow from an amazing warrior to an amazing king. There's no rise from man to legend. There's the following of such legend throughout his life.
Is this wrong? Not in its core, no. In a Tolkien-esque environment you'd be greeted all the time by perfect heroes and worthy adversaries. But this is the age of Warhammer, and if the main character's name wasn't Sigmar you wouldn't be aware that such fantasy universe was its setting. That's a major flaw, in my book.
After all, the world of Warhammer isn't a world of made of bard's tales.
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