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Best book to begin the Warhammer 40K universe?
Posted on 4/8/23 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 4/8/23 at 2:35 pm
I have nothing but a vague idea of the story so it's best to assume I know absolutely nothing.
Google is all over the place with suggestions.
Google is all over the place with suggestions.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 4:34 pm to AUveritas
tons of great places to start, some suggestions:
Eisenhorn series - spectacular, focuses on inquisitor and his retinue, get a good sampling of his interactions with various races
Gaunt's Ghosts - more standard military sci fi, focusing on a commissar and his unit
Ciaphas Cain - a more action adventure along with some comedy (which is slightly rare in 40k) again focusing on a commissar
Any of the space marine battles / anthologies can be good depending on which faction(s) you like.
Are you more interested in 'good' factions, evil factions? regular humans and their struggles or space marines / aliens etc?
Its a fantastic universe with tons of variety
If you want to go hardcore and get a good idea of the basis of the current events, you can start the horus heresy novels, which are currently running about 60 deep I think, they focus around the huge imperial civil war that took place 10,000 years before the 'current' timeline so ~30k
Eisenhorn series - spectacular, focuses on inquisitor and his retinue, get a good sampling of his interactions with various races
Gaunt's Ghosts - more standard military sci fi, focusing on a commissar and his unit
Ciaphas Cain - a more action adventure along with some comedy (which is slightly rare in 40k) again focusing on a commissar
Any of the space marine battles / anthologies can be good depending on which faction(s) you like.
Are you more interested in 'good' factions, evil factions? regular humans and their struggles or space marines / aliens etc?
Its a fantastic universe with tons of variety
If you want to go hardcore and get a good idea of the basis of the current events, you can start the horus heresy novels, which are currently running about 60 deep I think, they focus around the huge imperial civil war that took place 10,000 years before the 'current' timeline so ~30k
Posted on 4/8/23 at 4:38 pm to nopants
Thanks. If I have a preference, I suppose it's more the historical and political aspect of the universe.
Posted on 4/8/23 at 4:51 pm to AUveritas
historical = horus heresy novels, they start off with the story of the primarchs, the original space marine legions and the huge civil war that led to the events that are happening in the main 40k novels.
The Eisenhorn and Ravenor series also have a ton of detail on imperial politics as well as just being fantastic books in general.
If you don't want to get bogged down with 55+ books in the Horus Heresy, I really don't think you can go wrong with Eisenhorn.
Also if you see any of these names as authors, you have a pretty damn good shot that the book is a good one:
Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, and Aaron Dembski-Bowden
The Eisenhorn and Ravenor series also have a ton of detail on imperial politics as well as just being fantastic books in general.
If you don't want to get bogged down with 55+ books in the Horus Heresy, I really don't think you can go wrong with Eisenhorn.
Also if you see any of these names as authors, you have a pretty damn good shot that the book is a good one:
Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, and Aaron Dembski-Bowden
This post was edited on 4/8/23 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 4/8/23 at 6:47 pm to nopants
Thanks for the advice. I think I'll start with the Horus series since it seems to explain the history of everything.
Posted on 4/9/23 at 3:21 pm to AUveritas
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Thanks for the advice. I think I'll start with the Horus series since it seems to explain the history of everything.
Good luck…it’s only around 70 books long. Hahaha.
I’d recommend the Gaunt’s Ghosts books, and most things by Dan Abnett.
They’re somewhat new, but I’ve really enjoyed the low-level books under the “Warhammer Crime” imprint.
This post was edited on 4/9/23 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:15 pm to Sasquatch Smash
I 2nd Gaunt's ghosts. I want to say it's like 12 books but It's a nice different perspective from the Space Marines.
Posted on 4/15/23 at 7:13 am to AUveritas
Start with the first 7 or 8 HH books for the history. Then go where you like.
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