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		sxp on Feb 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer... Google's Ngram Viewer shows that the term "Space Marine" was in use for quite a while before W40K's 1987 release but there was a big increase after 1987. At a glance, the trend seems to be similar to trends for other related terms such as "powered armor" but doesn't match the trend for "Warhammer". http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=space+marine%2C...

riazrizvi on Feb 6, 2013 [–]

Amazon itself sells a few books with the term. Why doesn't the author ask Amazon to take down the other non-Warhammer titles or reinstate his? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_9?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A%22s...

danielweber on Feb 6, 2013 | [–]

I only saw one entry on the first page of those results that had the term and wasn't a GW license.

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