If he's involved, we're all hoping he'll have a bigger impact compared to Darktide. It's very difficult to find what Dan contributed to that game as there's close to no definable story unfortunately. Setting and possibly the character dialogue, sure, but Leutin09 hyped it up too much for me to only get...that. Hoping FatShark have more planned, and SOON! Anyway! can't wait to see what's happening with that Live Action version. Cautiously optimistic. (prays to the Omnissah that they adapt Gaunt's Ghosts first).
They need to make Spacehulk first movie, just Terminators and Gene Stealers. Nothing fancy, very low tech, hack and slash. Next movie should be Eisenhorn.
@@paullittle835 he's writing about space fash it's not his problem people don't get the setting isn't aspirational! (I am agreeing with you btw I don't want you to think I'm being salty)
Let's be honest, this book absolutely gave 40K universe the emotional depth it needed and that's without even mentioning the creativity behind the attention to detail Dan brings. I had the pleasure of meeting Dan at one of the BLL events (2010? 2011?), an absolute gent.
It is somewhat a miracle and a curse. This was my first Warhammer Book period, and that set my expactations for all future Horus Heresy books. Unfortunately unfulfilled so far (Read 6 Horus Heresy Books so far and nothing hit me like the first one)
When people bring up the contradictions about 40k lore, this is the solution I offer them (and use myself): Everything Dan Abnett writes is cannon, everything else is Imperial Propaganda. 😆 Always love listening to Dan, thanks for the interview! It also helped me find your channel, subscribed! ⚡⚡⚡
I think another way to look at it is this.. if you have 4 people sat around a table and ask them to draw a picture of an object in the center of that table they will all be different pictures. The same applies to the 40k universe, and part of the joy for me is also trying to understand the perspective and motivation of the story teller in each novel.
@@matthewbradley2299 I think the fact there isn't complete clarity on everything is part of what makes 40k feel like a real universe. If you think about it, there isn't a single historical era in the real world where there is complete agreement on the facts, never mind a single perspective on them. So the messy canon in fact adds verisimilitude and credibility. I'm sure this is a happy accident, but it helps a lot because there's no way they could pull off complete internal consistency across the games, codices, White Dwarf, books and stories, video games etc over decades
If this ever gets to Dan ...please let it be ... He is a legend ... I love all his works Nd colabs .. Idea .. mckvener the kegend ..gaunts ghosts The lost years. ...his years on gherrion ...helping the kniteganni making them ...the nallsheen snd after ...boom .more of thst goodness ....please let him hear this ....
i love the current 40k state . the books are amazing . for few years now they have started putting things in place making things make sense without ruining the mistery
Horus Rising was the book that begun a universe spanning almost 100 novels. For those of us who were around even before there was a heresy series, it’s is CRAZY looking back how far we have got. A whole hour with probably the most important writer in the setting is a precious gift you make us.😊Thank you.
I just finished Horus Rising, and all along, I wondered the same thing, what is the sign of aquila! Is it like a nWo sign? Shadow play? In Chapter 6 of Part 2, there is a physical hint that goes, ‘Qruze still had a habit, perhaps unconscious, of making the salute of the single clenched fist against his breast, the old pro-Unity symbol, *rather than the double-handed eagle.’* That made me realize what it would look like! Awesome to see a common curiosity being shared among the readers :)
I knew the sign of the Aquila (from that animated version of Helsreach) but what about the sign of the Cog? Someone relatively human did it in Titanicus, but she might have had extra fingers also.
It's pretty close to what I had in my head, except for some reason I always imagined these super-serious space marines hooking their thumbs together while doing it and wiggling their fingers. As Captain Sternmurderius stepped into the bridge, he paused to make the sign of the Aquila across his chest; "blblblblblblblb~" "Well met, Captain. Now, to the serious matter at hand."
What a delightful interview! It has always been obvious that Dan Abnett "gets" 40K, but it's great to hear just how much exactly. And thanks, Mira, for bringing a fresh (perhaps more literary?) perspective to this often misunderstood setting! Not that you don't already do that in your book club with a certain Arbitor, but this was especially great!
@@SAMagic The second book although still great lost some of the nuance with certain characters (which the third one does even worse), the third one dragged on a bit at the end, and half the 4th book was just tedious. I'm only on the 5th one now.
Massive fan of Dan Abnett. The opening line to Horus Rising is still one of the best lines in the Warhammer cannon. First experienced his work through Fell Cargo a little known but brilliant one-off Warhammer Fantasy novel with pirates and undead. The Eisenhorn books brought to life the 40k universe (beyond space marines punching orks). Was even given the non-Warhammer novel Embedded for a Christmas present and loved the unusual speech patterns he played with. He's crazily prolific an author, and his name is over a huge amount of my library - long may he reign. Slightly sad that the Horus Heresy is coming to an end, but then with The End and The Death Part 2 it will be 63 full novels (and several side novels, and 18+ novels in the Primarchs Horus Heresy series, and so far 3 Horus Heresy Character novels)... so I'm also glad that it's getting an established and definitive end. Thank you Dan. And thank's Mira for making this video.
I loved hearing Dan talk about Saturnine and specifically Camba Diaz defending that bridge " The name of Dorn. Frenzy. Glory. Diaz. Smoke blind. Blood blind. Striking. Again. Camba Diaz. Thrusting. Cutting. Gutting. Striking. Slaying. In the name of his lord. Pinned. Unmoving. Unmovable. " If anyone hasn't read Saturnine it is DA's best book for sure.
The length, breadth and the entire Warhammer 30-40k universe in my opinion is so in depth and complicated, detailed and swirling, beautiful, dark, grim, gritty, sad and awful, that I simply couldn’t wrap my head around knowing where to start. The more I think about the universe, the more I struggle to even comprehend how they even pulled it together. It’s down to games workshop, it’s well known steadfastness on how diligent they control it and combined with its team of writers, that I can only salute them all. It was very nice to hear Dan talk about it all as I have a million more questions! Along with Dune, it’s world is simply epic lvls of writing.
I always wanted to ask Dan about the opening "bait and switch! " such a good talk! But if you get a change, could you ask him weather it was a concious thing to give this other god emperror and his empire a real Dune wibe? I always felt that one of the big things about 40k was that the time scale allowed for whole other sci-fi franchises to fit into the 40k galaxy. Trek being the golden age, Hyperion describing the fall, etc. And Dune, with its magic and technology very much could fit as a pre-unification empire in some corner of the galaxy, they did lose earth after all. I got this particular vibe in a huge way, particularly Horus being the manifestation of the "great threat" the Dune books only ever reference to.
Hahaha knowing Val is played by Kevin Bacon is awesome. I could literally listen to this man talk all day long. Would love to see him at a con panel or something. Thank you for this interview.
Abnett is such a great writer, whenever I would pick up the next Horus Heresy book; if I saw his name on it, I knew it would be a good one. I think he's one of the best sci-fi writers ever and it is nice to now see that he's a lovely chap. The opening surprise-attack sequence in Know No Fear is still one of my favourite moments in any war book.
Hi Mira. Thanks for a brilliant interview. I've been a Warhammer fan since the early 90s, been reading Warhammer books for 20 odd years and have read the Horus Heresy since 2006 when I picked up Horus Rising in Waterstones in Edinburgh. I've seen Dan give a good number of interviews and he's always great to listen to. I just wanted to comment to say that your interview and observations really brought out some new stuff to me so thanks for the thoughtful and excellent content. I'm currently reading the final siege of terra book now ... and man.... is Dan giving me all the feels !
@Mira Manga 100% agree. Been to a few of the Black Library events down the years and Dan just has a presence and energy unlike anyone else. It's cool to hear new things though when you've been reading something for nearly 20 year so for example your observation on the 4 humours was very interesting. Dunno where you are in your Dan Abnett Warhammer reading but it's pretty much all gold in my eyes.
I just finished Horus Rising last night first book I've ever read in the warhammer series. WOW was it good! Awesome job with the interview, very much looking forward to reading more of his books!!!
Hearing Dan clearly enjoy discussing the process of being an author charged with playing nicely with others and sorting out the disparate mountain that used to be 40k lore is really refreshing. I feel like I’ve mostly just seen him be repeatedly pestered for hard answers over details that were obviously, intentionally left vague. Y’all really are a treat to watch. (I’m from Atlanta, that 𝘪𝘴 how we actually speak, please only talk shit if it’s genuinely clever. 😂)
I've never heard of Warhammer 40k until a friend of mine lent me his Horus Rising novel while we were deployed overseas. There was no looking back. I feel into the warhammer 40k rabbit hole. Henry Cavill needs to bring Dan Abnett on board for the live action Warhammer 40k.
My favourite author by a country mile. The various WhatsApp groups I'm in glaze over when I launch into fanboy mode, whether it's over the Gaunt's Ghosts series or Embedded or any of the myriad classics he's written over the years. Go Dan!
I think the story of Horus Heresy is really the story of "How Hope Dies in the 31st Millennium" Furthermore, I find that the Blood Angels are reflective of overcoming your worst instincts to be a paragon and that when Sanguinius dies, that is truly when hope has died. And it is beaten to a bloody pulp.
@@miramanga 👀 Dan's description of the end of the fight hit me right in the Blood Angels. If you're a Blood Angels fan, you get done with the book and you're feeling some feelings for sure. (Also, I hope that spoiler isn't too spoilery, I can edit it if needed)
Praise the Algorithm! What a lovely surprise, I had no idea you had your own channel, (Glares accusingly in Ian's direction!) and an interview with Dan too - I love how he's being struck by lightning at the start but is completely unphased. Legend!
Before even viewing this. Fellow 40K fans… please don’t expect any feature film or series ever be on par with an awesome book. Not even the LotR trilogy did any absolute justice to their source material. Those movies were, by themselves, amazing in their own way so that the whole Tolkien lore fanbase multiplied quite drastically. But many of those fans are “casual movie viewers” first, and “hardcore book fans” second (even though they don’t like to admit it). Any 40K cinematic film will be turned to mainstream “somehow”. Let’s hope it’ll be one of the rare good ones.
I met Dan at Leicester Comicon years ago and I knew his work on Guardians of the Galaxy whereas my friend was super excited to meet him as he’d read Eisenhorn and all the Gaunt’s Ghosts books. He was really friendly and keen to chat with fans. I’ve since read Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Gaunt’s Ghosts and would love to chat with him again. Great bloke, nice interview Mira.
I really enjoy learning 40k lore. It's one thing to enjoy it it's another thing to be one of the people bringing it to life. Max respect to the authors and the artists.
Cracking interview Mira. You really got Dan to talk and you let him talk. So often interviewers are trying to show how much they know and love the lore that the writer doesn't get a chance to run with their stream of coconsciousness.
I first read "Ghostmaker" more than 20 years ago and from there read all the Gaunt's novels. I loved the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series too. Dan had a tough job telling a good story with space marines since they're not the most interesting of characters, but he pulled it off. Horus Rising was a great book. He's such a talented writer, and I'd say he's my favourite too. I can say for sure that he's contributed to my vocabulary! Nice interview. (Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the 3rd Bequin novel 😁)
@@gwarfanatik Sorry, I should rephrase that. Space marines aren't the most interesting characters... to me. If you like them, then great. Maybe I've read the wrong books.
@@landotucker If you want some interesting Marines that are truly developed and interact with humans superbly interesting, you can check out Apocalypse by Josh Reynolds.
I re entlu finished the Eisenhorn trilogy and just started Horus Rising and Dan Abnett's use of descriptive language really takes me there. Such a great writer!
I’m not a 40k player but started my intro to the 40k universe with the HH (because the Internet said so) and it became very clear to me that Abnett was clearly head and shoulders above most in the Black Library. After reading ~10 40K books, there is at least one author that I’ll always skip and one that I’ll read everything they write. Dan Abnett is the latter. Thank you for the interview - glad to meet you both!
Dan Abnett IS The Black Library. You johnny-come -lately-i-hate-abnett- fans have no idea what the dire straits of the BL was before Abnett. The Abnett verse IS Warhammer 40k. The man can write all the perpetuals, enuncia, cognitae shit he wants to. The setting is only better for it.
My favorite series of books I've ever read. Kept me hooked for over a decade. Sad it's coming to an end but had a fantastic time reading them over the year's.
Very nice to see Dan Abnett still going strong. I've really enjoyed his work over the past decade and a bit. Hope you'll enjoy the rest of the Horus Heresy Mira! Certainly nothing wrong with skipping books in that series.
Awesome interview. So good to see Dan in the flesh talking about the books he has written. I love Eisenhorn so much. I love how it's set after horus and it's the shadow of that history in the aftermath
These are such great questions. It's so refreshing to hear questions that engage with the interviewee's creative process and not just the content. The "what is your favourite x and why is it y?" are particularly egregious. Awesome, insightful interview. Thank you!
I'm happy that I've just discovered this channel. I've been reading the Horus Heresy books (I'm just up to Book 5 'Fulgrim') after completing a years worth of fantasy books and I can say that the standard of these Horus Heresy books are up there almost to the contemporary fantasy greats e.g. Scott Lynch, Joe Ambercrombie, HRR Martin, Brandon Sanderson etc etc. I was quite surprised. Book 4 The Flight of the Eisenstein was great.
The early books are great i'm about 14 books into the horus heresy ( defninitely not all in order). there are some joys in there. Also they aren't all in a linear timeline so feel free to jump around. mira's friend ian has a great video review all the published ( at that time ) horus heresy books. definitley check it out
There are definitely some skips in the series, sadly. There are also key storylines/character returns contained within short stories/novellas. Not the easiest series to navigate as a result but the highest highs are worth it.
The cover art of Horus rising is my lasting image of all things 40k! Dont ask me why,i think the guy with the crazed look on his face spooked me a bit tbh!!
I haven't read much 40k stuff but I recently read the Horus Heresy (and Siege of Terra, and Primarchs), hope you get to sit down with Abnett again (and some of the other authors too) the more you delve into the series!
It’s been a long journey with the Heresy and I’m excited for the final part of End and the Death, I have burning questions over what he will do with Oll and John, Loken and Keeler, and how he will write the confrontations of Horus with Sanguinius and the Emperor.
Brilliant seeing you on your adventures through the grim darkness of the 40k universe (30k in this instance). It's always great hearing your opinions on a thing I've been passionate about since childhood.
Horus Rising is definitely my favourite book in the WH40K universe. It was also the first Warhammer book I’ve read. Happy to hear more about the process of writing it!
Dan, thanks, I love this book so much. I've read it fully at least 5x. I think its one of the best books ive ever read. thanks, that first line is absolute gold.
Hope he’s involved with Henry Cavill on bringing this to the small screen! Dan Abnett is a legend
If Henry's as geeky as I believe, he'd ask the whole team to comb over every detail.
I can't say.
😆
If he's involved, we're all hoping he'll have a bigger impact compared to Darktide. It's very difficult to find what Dan contributed to that game as there's close to no definable story unfortunately. Setting and possibly the character dialogue, sure, but Leutin09 hyped it up too much for me to only get...that. Hoping FatShark have more planned, and SOON!
Anyway! can't wait to see what's happening with that Live Action version. Cautiously optimistic. (prays to the Omnissah that they adapt Gaunt's Ghosts first).
They need to make Spacehulk first movie, just Terminators and Gene Stealers. Nothing fancy, very low tech, hack and slash. Next movie should be Eisenhorn.
@@terrynicholsjr.3342 It would take at least 10 seasons and a massive budget to do a proper Heresy but it would be the most epic thing ever
Who doesn't love Dan "Warhammer Santa" Abnett? The man is a damn treasure.
Warhammer Santa 🥹😂😍
Some random on Twitter included him in a "worst things to happen to 40k" list, because apparently his stories "attract fash" I was like "wait...wat?!"
@@paullittle835 he's writing about space fash it's not his problem people don't get the setting isn't aspirational! (I am agreeing with you btw I don't want you to think I'm being salty)
Warhammer Grinches. And we all know who they are.
Hahaha that is my new favourite description, thank you
Best Author by far that writes for GW. Whatever they pay him, it isn't enough
Dan should deliver a masterclass on creative writing- his use of language is amazing!
Let's be honest, this book absolutely gave 40K universe the emotional depth it needed and that's without even mentioning the creativity behind the attention to detail Dan brings.
I had the pleasure of meeting Dan at one of the BLL events (2010? 2011?), an absolute gent.
It is somewhat a miracle and a curse. This was my first Warhammer Book period, and that set my expactations for all future Horus Heresy books. Unfortunately unfulfilled so far (Read 6 Horus Heresy Books so far and nothing hit me like the first one)
When people bring up the contradictions about 40k lore, this is the solution I offer them (and use myself): Everything Dan Abnett writes is cannon, everything else is Imperial Propaganda. 😆
Always love listening to Dan, thanks for the interview! It also helped me find your channel, subscribed! ⚡⚡⚡
I think another way to look at it is this.. if you have 4 people sat around a table and ask them to draw a picture of an object in the center of that table they will all be different pictures. The same applies to the 40k universe, and part of the joy for me is also trying to understand the perspective and motivation of the story teller in each novel.
@@matthewbradley2299 I think the fact there isn't complete clarity on everything is part of what makes 40k feel like a real universe. If you think about it, there isn't a single historical era in the real world where there is complete agreement on the facts, never mind a single perspective on them. So the messy canon in fact adds verisimilitude and credibility. I'm sure this is a happy accident, but it helps a lot because there's no way they could pull off complete internal consistency across the games, codices, White Dwarf, books and stories, video games etc over decades
Dan Abnett is a legend.
If this ever gets to Dan ...please let it be ... He is a legend ... I love all his works Nd colabs ..
Idea .. mckvener the kegend ..gaunts ghosts
The lost years. ...his years on gherrion ...helping the kniteganni making them ...the nallsheen snd after ...boom .more of thst goodness ....please let him hear this ....
i love the current 40k state . the books are amazing . for few years now they have started putting things in place making things make sense without ruining the mistery
Dan always gives great interviews, his enthusiasm is brilliant, but this was definitely one of the best :)
Horus Rising was the book that begun a universe spanning almost 100 novels. For those of us who were around even before there was a heresy series, it’s is CRAZY looking back how far we have got. A whole hour with probably the most important writer in the setting is a precious gift you make us.😊Thank you.
You’re so welcome please stick around and enjoy the content 😊
@@miramanga sure will do!
Giga loremaster dan abnett recites to his remembrance
Everybody seems pleased with the interview, but I think the real star here is the theme song.
Very recently (within the last 2 weeks) dove into the 40K universe and my first book, Horus Rising, just arrived in the mail! 😊
The audio books bring a life to the story the novel cemented the beginning of 🤟
I just finished Horus Rising, and all along, I wondered the same thing, what is the sign of aquila! Is it like a nWo sign? Shadow play?
In Chapter 6 of Part 2, there is a physical hint that goes,
‘Qruze still had a habit, perhaps unconscious, of making the salute of the single clenched fist against his breast, the old pro-Unity symbol, *rather than the double-handed eagle.’*
That made me realize what it would look like! Awesome to see a common curiosity being shared among the readers :)
1:01:02 "then it's all part of a greater good."
30k emperor was an ethereal confirmed.
An actual explanation of the sign of the Aquila right at the end, what a perfect way to end the conversation!
An absolutely amazing way to end a wonderful interview!
I knew the sign of the Aquila (from that animated version of Helsreach) but what about the sign of the Cog? Someone relatively human did it in Titanicus, but she might have had extra fingers also.
It's pretty close to what I had in my head, except for some reason I always imagined these super-serious space marines hooking their thumbs together while doing it and wiggling their fingers.
As Captain Sternmurderius stepped into the bridge, he paused to make the sign of the Aquila across his chest;
"blblblblblblblb~"
"Well met, Captain. Now, to the serious matter at hand."
heheh
@@glandhoundyou just make fists and link your knuckles like cogwheels I think
I have decided I like Dan Abnett....
What a delightful interview! It has always been obvious that Dan Abnett "gets" 40K, but it's great to hear just how much exactly. And thanks, Mira, for bringing a fresh (perhaps more literary?) perspective to this often misunderstood setting! Not that you don't already do that in your book club with a certain Arbitor, but this was especially great!
I've literally just started my Horus Heresy journey with Horus Rising. This is awesome.
You are in for a loooooong ride. Don't be disappointed, though. Some HH books are utter crap 😂
@@BM-is5eiHarsh. The first half dozen are amazing!
@@SAMagic Well yes ofc they are, but we are talking about ... what? 60 books or something? There are some stinkers amongst them for sure.
@@SAMagic The second book although still great lost some of the nuance with certain characters (which the third one does even worse), the third one dragged on a bit at the end, and half the 4th book was just tedious. I'm only on the 5th one now.
Very exciting dude. I am about 30 books in myself.
Massive fan of Dan Abnett. The opening line to Horus Rising is still one of the best lines in the Warhammer cannon. First experienced his work through Fell Cargo a little known but brilliant one-off Warhammer Fantasy novel with pirates and undead. The Eisenhorn books brought to life the 40k universe (beyond space marines punching orks). Was even given the non-Warhammer novel Embedded for a Christmas present and loved the unusual speech patterns he played with. He's crazily prolific an author, and his name is over a huge amount of my library - long may he reign.
Slightly sad that the Horus Heresy is coming to an end, but then with The End and The Death Part 2 it will be 63 full novels (and several side novels, and 18+ novels in the Primarchs Horus Heresy series, and so far 3 Horus Heresy Character novels)... so I'm also glad that it's getting an established and definitive end. Thank you Dan. And thank's Mira for making this video.
Dan Abnett is so nice and an incredible human. I Love his 40k books, and also his huge contribution to the universe I love the most.
This and the gaunts ghosts interviews were great. Thank you.
Dan writes a hell of a book
I loved hearing Dan talk about Saturnine and specifically Camba Diaz defending that bridge
" The name of Dorn. Frenzy. Glory. Diaz. Smoke blind. Blood blind. Striking. Again. Camba Diaz. Thrusting. Cutting. Gutting. Striking. Slaying. In the name of his lord. Pinned. Unmoving.
Unmovable. "
If anyone hasn't read Saturnine it is DA's best book for sure.
Cant wait for her to catch up to the end and the death. Then, repeat the interview but with the finished picture of the horus heresy. :D
Hes a lovely guy, an amazing writer and has made such a huge positive contribution to the lore and the hobby.
Cool interview. I’m a newbie and just read the first 5 books. Much fun
49:20 Mag Uruk Thraka the Ork Warboss was named after Margaret Thatcher I think..
"There are things that are meant to be kept mysterious." -Dan Abnett Right on, here hoping the End and the Death doesn't reveal too much.
I really hope the opening line of the final book is "I was there the day the Emporer slew Horus"
Abnett has made a significant impact on my life as I work my way through the Heresy books. Thank you!
The length, breadth and the entire Warhammer 30-40k universe in my opinion is so in depth and complicated, detailed and swirling, beautiful, dark, grim, gritty, sad and awful, that I simply couldn’t wrap my head around knowing where to start.
The more I think about the universe, the more I struggle to even comprehend how they even pulled it together.
It’s down to games workshop, it’s well known steadfastness on how diligent they control it and combined with its team of writers, that I can only salute them all.
It was very nice to hear Dan talk about it all as I have a million more questions!
Along with Dune, it’s world is simply epic lvls of writing.
We're reading Dune in the Mira Manga Book Club and it's amazing
Lots of parallels between 40k and Dune :)
I always wanted to ask Dan about the opening "bait and switch! " such a good talk!
But if you get a change, could you ask him weather it was a concious thing to give this other god emperror and his empire a real Dune wibe? I always felt that one of the big things about 40k was that the time scale allowed for whole other sci-fi franchises to fit into the 40k galaxy. Trek being the golden age, Hyperion describing the fall, etc. And Dune, with its magic and technology very much could fit as a pre-unification empire in some corner of the galaxy, they did lose earth after all.
I got this particular vibe in a huge way, particularly Horus being the manifestation of the "great threat" the Dune books only ever reference to.
Hahaha knowing Val is played by Kevin Bacon is awesome. I could literally listen to this man talk all day long. Would love to see him at a con panel or something. Thank you for this interview.
Abnett is such a great writer, whenever I would pick up the next Horus Heresy book; if I saw his name on it, I knew it would be a good one. I think he's one of the best sci-fi writers ever and it is nice to now see that he's a lovely chap.
The opening surprise-attack sequence in Know No Fear is still one of my favourite moments in any war book.
Hi Mira. Thanks for a brilliant interview. I've been a Warhammer fan since the early 90s, been reading Warhammer books for 20 odd years and have read the Horus Heresy since 2006 when I picked up Horus Rising in Waterstones in Edinburgh. I've seen Dan give a good number of interviews and he's always great to listen to. I just wanted to comment to say that your interview and observations really brought out some new stuff to me so thanks for the thoughtful and excellent content. I'm currently reading the final siege of terra book now ... and man.... is Dan giving me all the feels !
Thank you for your kind words David. He is an utter delight and could happily speak to him for weeks at a time!
@Mira Manga 100% agree. Been to a few of the Black Library events down the years and Dan just has a presence and energy unlike anyone else. It's cool to hear new things though when you've been reading something for nearly 20 year so for example your observation on the 4 humours was very interesting. Dunno where you are in your Dan Abnett Warhammer reading but it's pretty much all gold in my eyes.
@45:00 I KNEW he was talking about V A R L!
I'm a big fan of Abnett's work but after actually listening to him here, I would gladly grab a beer with the guy. He seems very likable.
Such a Brillant man...my very favorite 40k writer.
I just finished Horus Rising last night first book I've ever read in the warhammer series. WOW was it good! Awesome job with the interview, very much looking forward to reading more of his books!!!
Hearing Dan clearly enjoy discussing the process of being an author charged with playing nicely with others and sorting out the disparate mountain that used to be 40k lore is really refreshing.
I feel like I’ve mostly just seen him be repeatedly pestered for hard answers over details that were obviously, intentionally left vague.
Y’all really are a treat to watch.
(I’m from Atlanta, that 𝘪𝘴 how we actually speak, please only talk shit if it’s genuinely clever. 😂)
Haven't even finished the video, but I wanted to say I loved the intro song.
Fantastic interview! You can tell Dan Abnett just absolutely loves 40k! He just loves to talk about it and I love listening!
What a lovely, brilliant man. Great work Mira, the interview I’ve wanted to hear for many years.
You conducted an excellent interview, and it’s a credit to you that he was so engaged!
So true!
I've never heard of Warhammer 40k until a friend of mine lent me his Horus Rising novel while we were deployed overseas. There was no looking back. I feel into the warhammer 40k rabbit hole. Henry Cavill needs to bring Dan Abnett on board for the live action Warhammer 40k.
My favourite author by a country mile. The various WhatsApp groups I'm in glaze over when I launch into fanboy mode, whether it's over the Gaunt's Ghosts series or Embedded or any of the myriad classics he's written over the years. Go Dan!
Dan Abnett is a very talented author, and seems such a nice guy. This was an amazing interview, thanks Mira ❤
I think the story of Horus Heresy is really the story of "How Hope Dies in the 31st Millennium"
Furthermore, I find that the Blood Angels are reflective of overcoming your worst instincts to be a paragon and that when Sanguinius dies, that is truly when hope has died. And it is beaten to a bloody pulp.
Oh the spoilers
@@miramanga 👀
Dan's description of the end of the fight hit me right in the Blood Angels. If you're a Blood Angels fan, you get done with the book and you're feeling some feelings for sure.
(Also, I hope that spoiler isn't too spoilery, I can edit it if needed)
Praise the Algorithm! What a lovely surprise, I had no idea you had your own channel, (Glares accusingly in Ian's direction!) and an interview with Dan too - I love how he's being struck by lightning at the start but is completely unphased. Legend!
THIS IS THE IS CONTENT I NEEDED TO STUMBLE ON DURING A PAPER WORK FILLED WEDNESDAY!!!!!!
Hooray!!!
Before even viewing this. Fellow 40K fans… please don’t expect any feature film or series ever be on par with an awesome book.
Not even the LotR trilogy did any absolute justice to their source material. Those movies were, by themselves, amazing in their own way so that the whole Tolkien lore fanbase multiplied quite drastically. But many of those fans are “casual movie viewers” first, and “hardcore book fans” second (even though they don’t like to admit it).
Any 40K cinematic film will be turned to mainstream “somehow”. Let’s hope it’ll be one of the rare good ones.
Great book great author imma read Horus rising for sure
I met Dan at Leicester Comicon years ago and I knew his work on Guardians of the Galaxy whereas my friend was super excited to meet him as he’d read Eisenhorn and all the Gaunt’s Ghosts books. He was really friendly and keen to chat with fans.
I’ve since read Eisenhorn, Ravenor and Gaunt’s Ghosts and would love to chat with him again. Great bloke, nice interview Mira.
I really enjoy learning 40k lore. It's one thing to enjoy it it's another thing to be one of the people bringing it to life. Max respect to the authors and the artists.
Great interview! Finally I know how to make the sign of the aquila definitively.
Cracking interview Mira. You really got Dan to talk and you let him talk. So often interviewers are trying to show how much they know and love the lore that the writer doesn't get a chance to run with their stream of coconsciousness.
Mira is such a great listener; giving Dan plenty of time to express his love for the setting.
I first read "Ghostmaker" more than 20 years ago and from there read all the Gaunt's novels. I loved the Eisenhorn and Ravenor series too. Dan had a tough job telling a good story with space marines since they're not the most interesting of characters, but he pulled it off. Horus Rising was a great book.
He's such a talented writer, and I'd say he's my favourite too. I can say for sure that he's contributed to my vocabulary! Nice interview.
(Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the 3rd Bequin novel 😁)
In terms of vocabulary it is absolutely bonkers how much 40k lingo, which many authors have picked up, was invented by him.
@@gwarfanatik Sorry, I should rephrase that. Space marines aren't the most interesting characters... to me. If you like them, then great. Maybe I've read the wrong books.
@@landotucker If you want some interesting Marines that are truly developed and interact with humans superbly interesting, you can check out Apocalypse by Josh Reynolds.
Best intro music in UA-cam history
One of my favorite books ever.
The Emperors favourite colour has to be goooold!
Hey this was a great interview!
That intro needs to be on all Warhammer products
A wonderful conversation with Dan. His enthusiasm for his work and the audience comes across.
I love Dan Abnett's glass front drawer cabinet.
Not related to Rick are you? ;)
@JimL85 No, I don't think so. Perhaps we share a common ancestor, long ago.
Mira you are a natural at this
Mira you're so pretty. Well done, thank you for this interview.
This guy is a global treasure his books and the siege im so happy to be around to read this as it is written
That was amazing, Dan is Amazing. Now do some more of the writers :D
Brilliant interview, so good to hear Dan's views just as we are reaching the end of the HH.
Thoroughly enjoyed that, I always like to hear from Dan Abnett, read many books across many Ip's that he's written
That intro song is bloody brilliant 😂
I re entlu finished the Eisenhorn trilogy and just started Horus Rising and Dan Abnett's use of descriptive language really takes me there. Such a great writer!
Fantastic interview, and the intro is so fun!!
Yes, loved that intro!!
great start mira with dan based abnett
I’m not a 40k player but started my intro to the 40k universe with the HH (because the Internet said so) and it became very clear to me that Abnett was clearly head and shoulders above most in the Black Library. After reading ~10 40K books, there is at least one author that I’ll always skip and one that I’ll read everything they write. Dan Abnett is the latter. Thank you for the interview - glad to meet you both!
Who do you skip?
Asking for a friend
I highly recommend Aaron Demski-Bowdon alongside Abnett. Helsreach and Emperor's gift are outstanding books.
@@TheMissing8 i also recommedn Robert Rath and Nate Crowley.
@@EternalDM i bet Nick Kyme. At least i do bc he ruined the Salamanders.
Dan Abnett IS The Black Library. You johnny-come -lately-i-hate-abnett- fans have no idea what the dire straits of the BL was before Abnett.
The Abnett verse IS Warhammer 40k. The man can write all the perpetuals, enuncia, cognitae shit he wants to. The setting is only better for it.
My favorite series of books I've ever read. Kept me hooked for over a decade. Sad it's coming to an end but had a fantastic time reading them over the year's.
I just finished Horus Rising so this was a great watch
Very nice to see Dan Abnett still going strong. I've really enjoyed his work over the past decade and a bit.
Hope you'll enjoy the rest of the Horus Heresy Mira! Certainly nothing wrong with skipping books in that series.
After all these years! I got the Aquila salute correct! 😃 Great interview
Awesome interview. So good to see Dan in the flesh talking about the books he has written. I love Eisenhorn so much. I love how it's set after horus and it's the shadow of that history in the aftermath
These are such great questions. It's so refreshing to hear questions that engage with the interviewee's creative process and not just the content. The "what is your favourite x and why is it y?" are particularly egregious. Awesome, insightful interview. Thank you!
I'm happy that I've just discovered this channel. I've been reading the Horus Heresy books (I'm just up to Book 5 'Fulgrim') after completing a years worth of fantasy books and I can say that the standard of these Horus Heresy books are up there almost to the contemporary fantasy greats e.g. Scott Lynch, Joe Ambercrombie, HRR Martin, Brandon Sanderson etc etc. I was quite surprised. Book 4 The Flight of the Eisenstein was great.
The early books are quite great. I kept collecting them up to about 17 or so though and by that point there were several I didn’t care for.
The early books are great i'm about 14 books into the horus heresy ( defninitely not all in order). there are some joys in there. Also they aren't all in a linear timeline so feel free to jump around. mira's friend ian has a great video review all the published ( at that time ) horus heresy books. definitley check it out
There are definitely some skips in the series, sadly. There are also key storylines/character returns contained within short stories/novellas. Not the easiest series to navigate as a result but the highest highs are worth it.
What a nice man...
Cheers from California! Awesome interview!
It’s so sweet how much fun both of you are having. Very wholesome stuff
The cover art of Horus rising is my lasting image of all things 40k! Dont ask me why,i think the guy with the crazed look on his face spooked me a bit tbh!!
I haven't read much 40k stuff but I recently read the Horus Heresy (and Siege of Terra, and Primarchs), hope you get to sit down with Abnett again (and some of the other authors too) the more you delve into the series!
It’s been a long journey with the Heresy and I’m excited for the final part of End and the Death, I have burning questions over what he will do with Oll and John, Loken and Keeler, and how he will write the confrontations of Horus with Sanguinius and the Emperor.
Brilliant seeing you on your adventures through the grim darkness of the 40k universe (30k in this instance). It's always great hearing your opinions on a thing I've been passionate about since childhood.
Great conversation!
He’s wonderful 🥰❤️
Horus Rising is definitely my favourite book in the WH40K universe. It was also the first Warhammer book I’ve read. Happy to hear more about the process of writing it!
Brothers of the Snake might be his best stand alone book. Absolutely worth a read.
Dan, thanks, I love this book so much. I've read it fully at least 5x. I think its one of the best books ive ever read. thanks, that first line is absolute gold.
So glad he mentioned the Last Stand on the Pons Solar. Every time I read that, my heart stops all over again. Just… beyond exquisite.
This was fun to listen to
Man’s a legend just to listened to the first three heresy books 📖 still dam good 👍
the hour just flew by!