Unboxing "The Solar War" by John French

🔗 | by Chris McLeod
A black-and-white photo of plain cardboard book packaging, featuring Black Library branding printed in black

Black Library’s usual packaging
Black tissue paper wrapped around a book. The wrapping is secured with a sticker featuring a stylised compass evocative of a star.

Our now standard tissue wrap + logo sticker
A red leather book cover, featuring embossing and a metal badge of the same compass/star design as was on the sticker. The title, Solar War, and author name, John French, are picked out in gold lettering

I can’t adequately describe how wonderfully tactile and weighty this book is

A red leather book spine, featuring embossing and the same compass/star design as the cover, but in gold. The title, Solar War, and author name, John French, are also picked out in gold lettering, and positioned above the compass

This is going to look right at home next to Celestine
An inside page, featuring the book title and author name, and numbers to indicate this is book 1025 out of the 2500 of this edition that were printed. Across the page is the author's signature.

Number 1025
a double-page spread of all 54 previous novels in the Horus Heresy series, along with a list of 19 other books in the series

54 novels and more to get us to this point
The main title page, with The Solar War printed in a large, serif, font
The chapter page for a chapter titled The Warp it features a stylised border of gothic and mechanical elements printed in greyscale and bold red

These new page borders on new chapter pages are a nice touch
The rear cover of a red leatherbound hardback book. It features embossing and text picked out in gold

I can’t wait to dive in to this book!