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Ok nerds I know you all love Warhammer books. Post about books from Warhammer Fantasy, 40k, and whatever the hell Age of Sigmar is. What have you been reading lately? Which books are your favorites? Which author writes Warham books that are actually worth reading? I finished The Infinite and The Divine by Robert Rath a couple weeks ago and the hype is real. It is, in fact, that good.
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Apr 5, 2023 00:24
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I'm currently reading The End and The Death Volume 1, it feels suitably epic so far All the threads of the 60 (?) odd books before it finally coming together 
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Apr 5, 2023 17:52
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I waiting for the 3rd Black Legion, and Bequin books. I refuse to read anything else from the Black Library in the meantime. 
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Apr 6, 2023 00:14
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I'm onto the third Eisenhorn book, Hereticus, just now. I'd never read any 40k books before these and so had no familiarity with the lore etc besides a vague awareness of the game's setting but they're p fun and easy to read. The idea of an inquisitor who was tortured and had the nerves in his face damaged so he can no longer smile and permanently frowns is so hilariously grimdark. I'll probably move onto the Ravenor and Bequin series after this, but I also really wanna read Nate Crowley's Twice Dead King cos I've enjoyed his writing elsewhere (games journalism etc) and reckon his style would probably suit 40k p well.
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Apr 7, 2023 00:23
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If anyone is trying to get a friend into these books, my gateway was Caiaphas Cain. Enough levity to still be fun despite the bleak setting.
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Apr 7, 2023 00:44
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Cannon_Fodder posted:If anyone is trying to get a friend into these books, my gateway was Caiaphas Cain. Enough levity to still be fun despite the bleak setting. Just don't binge-read them because they're all pretty much the same and it gets repetitive after a while. Still plenty of fun to be had as long as they're spaced out. Modulo16 posted:I waiting for the 3rd Black Legion, and Bequin books. I refuse to read anything else from the Black Library in the meantime. If I were to make a tier list of Black Library authors, ADB and Abnett would be at the top for sure. That third Black Legion book can't come soon enough.
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Apr 7, 2023 01:21
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I'm not a big necron guy but the infinite and divine took the whole "alive for untold millenia" thing seriously and was incredibly fun and unique as a result. tom and jerry space mummies playing century long pranks on each other and accidentally altering the evolution of an entire planet over the course of a few hundreds of thousands of years.
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Apr 7, 2023 06:37
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Nate Crowley's twice dead king books are excellent and his non-40k book the death and life of schneider wrack is even better.
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Apr 7, 2023 15:04
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Can anyone point me to a simple list of audio dramas available on audible. I on a whim spent a credit on Saga of the Mortal realms and The Gotrek Realmslayer audio dramas and had a good time listening as I biked. But it's hard to find the dramas among the audio books. And I got one collection, sacrosanct and other stories, that had some of the same stories from saga of the mortal.rwalms which sucks and had audio books mixed in with those dramas. Gotrek the realmslayer had Brian blessed voice gotrek and it fuckin owned. It was also fun bc I had no idea wtf age of sigmar was when I got those dramas so it was funny to be like wtf is happening along with gotrek. He has a line where the character says something along the lines of "at least I didn't deny reality existed when you got here" and gotrek said something like " frankly reality was ridiculous". Age of sigmar really is ridiculous
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Apr 7, 2023 16:46
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EmbryoSteve posted:Gotrek the realmslayer had Brian blessed voice gotrek and it fuckin owned. It was also fun bc I had no idea wtf age of sigmar was when I got those dramas so it was funny to be like wtf is happening along with gotrek. He has a line where the character says something along the lines of "at least I didn't deny reality existed when you got here" and gotrek said something like " frankly reality was ridiculous". Age of sigmar really is ridiculous This sounds amazing. I've always wanted to check out the Gotrek and Felix books but I don't really know where to start. Should I just pick up the first omnibus and go from there?
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Apr 10, 2023 04:07
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Famethrowa posted:I'm not a big necron guy but the infinite and divine took the whole "alive for untold millenia" thing seriously and was incredibly fun and unique as a result. tom and jerry space mummies playing century long pranks on each other and accidentally altering the evolution of an entire planet over the course of a few hundreds of thousands of years. I still lol at things like Necron plays being decades in length, and dudes in a meeting going without talking for years and when one finally does speak, his voice module is busted from disuse just from that meeting.
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Apr 10, 2023 20:06
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Cthulu Carl posted:I still lol at things like Necron plays being decades in length, and dudes in a meeting going without talking for years and when one finally does speak, his voice module is busted from disuse just from that meeting. it was laugh out loud funny at points without being an overt satire like ciaphas. might be a first for a 40k book.
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Apr 10, 2023 20:26
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Mr. Fish posted:This sounds amazing. Yeah I'd say go for it. There's a plot but you know all the beats most likely. The second story is when it hits its stride and we meet everyone's favourite rat. I can't say it's brilliant literature. I can say it's great manchild fiction if you want some fun friends clowning on equally fun bad guys.
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Apr 11, 2023 03:50
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I've got a 'Cult of the Spiral Dawn' book, although I unfortunately haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Are there any good collections/anthologies or even lists, for specific races/theatres of war, by any chance? e.g. IGs such as the Catachan Rambo guys trying to go up against monsters or genestealers on jungle worlds, kinda thing?
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Apr 11, 2023 07:36
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Major Isoor posted:I've got a 'Cult of the Spiral Dawn' book, although I unfortunately haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Are there any good collections/anthologies or even lists, for specific races/theatres of war, by any chance? e.g. IGs such as the Catachan Rambo guys trying to go up against monsters or genestealers on jungle worlds, kinda thing? the night lords omnibus is a really well done portrayal of the chaos guys from the perspective of a relatively sane heretic. for imperial guard you can't beat Gaunt's Ghosts for a story in the mold of the Sharpe adventure novels. just rooting for the absolute underdogs as they fight stalingrad in space.
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Apr 11, 2023 22:31
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Major Isoor posted:I've got a 'Cult of the Spiral Dawn' book, although I unfortunately haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Are there any good collections/anthologies or even lists, for specific races/theatres of war, by any chance? e.g. IGs such as the Catachan Rambo guys trying to go up against monsters or genestealers on jungle worlds, kinda thing? A few matchups that I thought were good reads: Rebel Winter by Steve Parker has Vostroyan Firstborn vs Orks. A solid Imperial Guard book from the perspective of everyone's favorite space cossacks. Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky has Genestealer Cults infiltrating an Adeptus Mechanicus forge world. It's fun seeing two factions so far removed from baseline humanity going at it, especially when the xenos-infested cultists behave with more "humanity" than those working on behalf of the Imperium.
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Apr 12, 2023 20:22
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what, the guy who did Children of Time? neat
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Apr 12, 2023 21:24
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I loved Warhammer in 1992-95, again in 2000, and again the last couple of years In all that time I've read exactly one Warhammer book. Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil (who is apparently actually called Kim Newman) has held up surprisingly well. I read it when I was 13, and again last year, and it's a fun story, Detlef seems like a great bunch of lads and I liked the sexy vampire lady as well. I refuse to believe there is any good 40K fiction.
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Apr 12, 2023 22:15
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Mr. Fish posted:Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky has Genestealer Cults infiltrating an Adeptus Mechanicus forge world. It's fun seeing two factions so far removed from baseline humanity going at it, especially when the xenos-infested cultists behave with more "humanity" than those working on behalf of the Imperium. Oh poo poo, Children of Time and Children of Ruin were like my favorite books of the last couple of years. Have to give that 40k one a chance.  Edit: drat, there's a third book in the series too! 2nd edit: Just bought them both. 
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Apr 14, 2023 22:39
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has anyone read the forge of mars series? very good and very different
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Apr 15, 2023 02:14
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tidal wave emulator posted:I'm onto the third Eisenhorn book, Hereticus, just now. I'd never read any 40k books before these and so had no familiarity with the lore etc besides a vague awareness of the game's setting but they're p fun and easy to read. The idea of an inquisitor who was tortured and had the nerves in his face damaged so he can no longer smile and permanently frowns is so hilariously grimdark. I love those books so much. Try to slot in the 4th Eisenhorn book, The Magos, after the Ravenor books. I think that's where it lands chronologically. There's some really neat short stories in there and the second half is more like a proper novel.
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Apr 15, 2023 03:40
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I couldn’t get into Eisenhorn. The silly psychic stuff isn’t for me. Any 40k books more focused on ships and space battles and stuff?
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Apr 15, 2023 05:24
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Gambrinus posted:I loved Warhammer in 1992-95, again in 2000, and again the last couple of years There's a whole trilogy of Genevieve and Detlef, also a really interesting Chaos dude.
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Apr 15, 2023 06:04
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Aaron Dembski Bowden >> Dan Abnett > Graham McNeill >>>>>>>> Any other 40k author I've read, (the number of greaterthans is not for effect). That said, haven't read much 40k lately
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Apr 15, 2023 06:16
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No that's pretty accurate. Just avoid any Nick Kyme books. I'm sure he's a nice guy but he is not a good writer. Gaunts Ghosts are probably the best 40k fiction gets, but it's still pretty much just mil Sci fi, i doubt BL will ever produce something like Dune or Cantical for lebowitz, or foundation or even like the Expanse.
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Apr 16, 2023 14:27
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Raere posted:I couldn’t get into Eisenhorn. The silly psychic stuff isn’t for me. There are at least 2 Battlefleet Gothic books. A Border Prince on youtube has done an excellent audiobook version of at least one of them, maybe both by now.
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Apr 17, 2023 09:47
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Chiming in to also recommend the Gaunt's Ghosts series. The stories are a lot more "human" than a lot of those found in the Horus Heresy as they're not focused on following genetically engineered Space Marines. Just regular people trying to do their best in the face of insurmountable odds. Also the first 3 books in the Horus Heresy are some of my favourites, especially in that they have a consistent story arc that introduces the series well. That's where I started and I think its a great place for newcomers 
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Apr 17, 2023 15:27
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OldBones posted:Chiming in to also recommend the Gaunt's Ghosts series. The stories are a lot more "human" than a lot of those found in the Horus Heresy as they're not focused on following genetically engineered Space Marines. Just regular people trying to do their best in the face of insurmountable odds. Yea, Abnett has a knack for making the Imperium and the whole 40k setting as a functional society. You have books where the ghosts are in places that aren't war zones and interacting with normal people and nothings exploding and there's no aliens or daemons. They also become way less Sharpe's in Space as things go on.
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Apr 17, 2023 21:34
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Folks, read Chris Wraight's Vaults of Terra trilogy. The best Inquisition fiction I've read since Eisenhorn. His Horus Heresy books on the White Scars are also drat good.
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May 16, 2023 21:26
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there needs to be more books focusing on the only good guys in the setting, the orks
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May 16, 2023 23:48
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Mr. Fish posted:Folks, read Chris Wraight's Vaults of Terra trilogy. The best Inquisition fiction I've read since Eisenhorn. His Horus Heresy books on the White Scars are also drat good. Its gotta be better than those weird Inqusitor books from the early 90s. Though the Imperial First who carves the names of his dead squadmates into his arm bones is pretty cool.
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May 18, 2023 06:00
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I like it in Ian Watson’s Space Marine when the Imperial Fists board a tyranid vessel via sphincter and are extremely, unashamedly gay for each other
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May 24, 2023 00:38
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