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Titanicus (2008)

by Dan Abnett(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1844165868 (ISBN13: 9781844165865)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Games Workshop

series

Sabbat Worlds

review 1: When I picked up Titanicus I didn't really know what to expect. Well of course there would be titans and probably a whole bunch of techpriests running around, but I had never read anything from Dan Abnett before.The story is quite good. Beside a big battle between titans there's also a whole lot of intriguing and backstabbing going on in the mechanicus as well. It feels nicely balanced. it never becomes raw, dumb action, and never too much shadow plays either.The only real problem I have is the same as with other novels by Abnett: He writes a wonderful, awesome story and when there's just 50 pages left he goes like: "Oh, crap. I'm almost out of space! Better kill most of the characters and just hastily wrap up all the lose ends!"The ending feels sloppy... and it's sad when... more the rest of the novel was good.
review 2: Not a bad tale of the Adeptus Mechanicus -- there aren't too many books in the 40k universe written about them, though they're a huge part of the lore of this literary universe (standing quite a bit higher than the Astartes in the hierarchy of how things are run in the Imperium of Man).Titanicus deals with some of the usual things you might expect to find in a book about the Mechanicus -- the politics of human-augmentation in a society that seeks species purity, the way the masses see the Mechanius as distant, aloof, etc -- and some of things you would rather not see explored too far, like the relationship between the God-Emperor of man (a being exalted as a living/dead god who sits on a golden throne on the Earth) and the Omnissiah (the being who the Mechanicus are allowed to worship simply because everyone has decided to look the other way and just claim that it's obviously another avatar of the God-Emperor). less

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