| the trojan bunny | 26 Oct 2015 1:59 p.m. PST |
I'm in the process of painting some classic RTB01 beakie marines and thought it would be fun to read some 40k novels. The only one I ever read was First and Only (the first Gaunt's Ghosts book) back when I was a teenager. So, what 40k novels are worth reading, and which are worth avoiding? |
| Garand | 26 Oct 2015 2:04 p.m. PST |
Storm of Iron was pretty good if you like Iron Warriors. Most of the Horus Heresy line is also pretty good, if you stick with Abnett's stuff, most of McNeils, etc. Anything by Dembski-Bowden gets high ranks, especially his Night Lords series… Damon. |
| cloudcaptain | 26 Oct 2015 2:34 p.m. PST |
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| headzombie | 26 Oct 2015 2:36 p.m. PST |
Agreed. Anything by Abnett and Dembski-Bowden . |
| WarpSpeed | 26 Oct 2015 2:46 p.m. PST |
Anything by Dan Abnett or Sandy Mitchell. |
| leidang | 26 Oct 2015 3:11 p.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 26 Oct 2015 3:42 p.m. PST |
Garro series is good but is a auto series |
Beowulf  | 26 Oct 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
Stay away from Gav Thorpe. Besides Dan Abnett, Ben Counter is quite good. Bill King's Space Wolf series is a good romp. |
| nazrat | 26 Oct 2015 4:30 p.m. PST |
I have read most of the Gaunt's Ghosts books and they are all excellent. |
 Dentatus  | 26 Oct 2015 4:54 p.m. PST |
Abnett, all the way. His Eisenhorn trilogy is superb, IMO. |
| 15th Hussar | 26 Oct 2015 6:33 p.m. PST |
The first three "Trilogy" books of the Horus Heresy are quite good, even though you really need to toss Eisenstein into the mix to round it out. |
| Generalstoner49 | 26 Oct 2015 7:16 p.m. PST |
In no particular order. Gaunt's Ghost series especially Necropolis, Sabbat Martyr and traitor general. Titanicus Horus Heresy novels 1,2,3 Double Eagle Storm of Iron The Uriel Ventris series Battle of Rynn's World Battle of Armageddon |
| chuck05 | 26 Oct 2015 8:34 p.m. PST |
The Commisar Cain books are a fun read too. Stay away from anything written by Gav Thorpe. He is a hack. |
Frederick  | 27 Oct 2015 12:40 p.m. PST |
Another vote for the Ciaphas Cain series by Sandy Mitchell – they are a hoot Also anything by Dan Abnett – he writes a lot of non-40K sci-fi too |
| Platybeladon | 30 Oct 2015 8:06 a.m. PST |
Can only reiterate as stated above many times:
Ciaphas Cain books are well written & funny – nice to have a "normal" point-of-view (i.e. somebody who's human and simply wants to survive the fight) as opposed to the xenophobic-religous tirade of the space marine.
Dan Abnett – doesn't matter what it's all good |
| Der Krieg Geist | 10 Nov 2015 6:12 p.m. PST |
Avoid them all as none a particularly good. IMHO Your mileage may vary but find most 40 K fluff books to be rubbish. I suppose my own imaginings always seem better to me. |
