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I read Peter fehevaris genestealer cults and thought it was OK.. Are the other GS books related somehow? I can never find any info on them

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Xenology

(Preferably the collector's edition, which included the twist ending)

What is the twist ending?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Xenology

(Preferably the collector's edition, which included the twist ending)

What is the twist ending?

Storm of Irom may be my favourite. That, or Ravenor.

The scene in Ravenor where he reveals to that government psyker dude that he's an inquisitor, and their reactions, is what made me realize that the Inquisition is really a big deal. That one scene alone got me super interested in the Inquisition because its set up so perfectly to show the kind of power Inquisitors have without actually using any of that said power- Ravenor's thoughts and those dude's reactions told me everything.

Storm of Iron also because its an intense back and forth and I genuinley couldnt tell who was gonna win in the end despite it being a novel about Chaos Marines.


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Oh, Path of the warrior is amazing as well. Havent read the others though. I tried reading Path of the Renegade thinking itd be like PotW. It kind of is but extremley boring to me.

 lifeafter wrote:
The original Eisenhorn novels

The first three Horus heresy books are fricking great.

Storm of Iron is probably my favorite stand alone story.

The Ravenor trilogy is also enjoyable.

Gaunts ghosts is a good series of you want to read imperial guard battles featuring infantry led by a commisar.


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Is Lord of the Night part of the night Lord trilogy? I loved that book. If it's part of that trilogy, i agree with everyone who says it's awesome.

Bulls Eye*
Add Legion, betrayer and the 1st heritic

For tougn and cheek, Cyphus Cain books are good.

Helsreach : Because Grimnaldus
Gaunts Ghost : Good reads and follows the common grunt
Cain series : Jurgen alone is a reason to read these books, the good work by the author is also a reason.

I’ve not read much Black Library, but the books I most enjoyed were Black Legion, Talon of Horus, Heroes of the Space Marines (a bunch of short stories about heroes from various legions, chapters and warbands) and a Space Wolf graphic novel whose name evades me... ah Lone Wolves by Dan Abnett. Maybe I’m easily pleased or just been lucky to avoid anything too bad.

"Double Eagle" is far and away the best BL novel I've read. It's Abnett at his best, with excellent character building and sense of world space. He manages to make one of the primary characters become progressively more unlikable throughout the book while also becoming equally more sympathetic. It's as much a tragic drama as it is a military action novel.

If "Gaunt's Ghosts" (Excellent in it's own right, but not as technically impressive) is Sharpe in 40K, then Double Eagle is like the best elements of "Catch 22," "Stuka Pilot," and, I dunno, "Evangelion?" I highly recommend it.

The usual suspects are recommended of course. Most of Abnett's work, The Ciaphas Cain series. I'd also Recommend the short stories, "Mercy Run" and "Gunheads," (sequential) for guard fans. "Titanicus," (also by Abnett.) and the "Carcharodon" series, although I've only read the last novel I quite enjoyed it. I appreciate the take on spacemarines as being something to be both in awe and fear of by the normal
folk of the Imperium.

Oh damn I forgot double eagle. definite must read. the air was is a much needed breath of fresh air form the usual foot slogging, infantry fight stories.

Storm of Iron should be on every Newbies list.

Daemonworld.

Lord of the Night.

Welcome to Chaos!

Gadzilla666 wrote:

 harlokin wrote:

Gadzilla666 wrote:
Didn't enjoy Void Stalker?

It was good, but for some reason I couldn't get into it as much as the first two. I know that things can never end well for the boys in midnight clad, but still...

Can't win em all. Grim dark and all that. But at least Zso Sahaal probably survived Lord of the Night. He's still my #1 hope for an actual Night Lords character in the game. With a Mita Ashen model in tow of course.

For me, Void Stalker was ADB reminding us that the Night Lords were in fact, Very Bad Guys. Despite the sympathy that they garnered in the previous two books for their quixotic rage against the Imperium, there was still an inevitability .

ADB is by far my favorite Black Library author, but Lord of the Night was a sea-change for me. Not only was the prose very strong, I was pleasantly surprised by the lengths to which Spurrier was able to go to show Ashyn's turn away from the Imperium. The fact that it has the ending that it has was the first time I had encountered such pro-Chaos sentiments within the Black Library. This appealed to me not only as a Chaos apologist, but in a literary sense as the natural way for those characters to discover each other and grow into the duo that they become. This was before I'd read Storm of Iron, mind you.

Hellebore wrote:
I'll echo xenology. I have both versions of that book. Love it. but I'm a sucker for biology.

I do like Eisenhorn, but I can't stand enuncia. Abnett has a bad habit of trying to insert his own stamp into 40k at fundamental levels that imo cause so much trouble later (CF perpetuals, no wolves on fenris, omegon etc). Enuncia screws with the metaphysics of 40k too much and entirely bypasses the risk of damnation for temporal power of psychic powers.


My favourite novels are execution hour and shadow point. Fun stories, interesting characters and imo the best Eldar in fiction. Tag Thorpe writes humans with pointy ears

I agree about Enuncia - in The Magos, Eisenhorn describes it as his "life's work" to destroy the corrupted Cognitae. Since when? He only became involved in the Cognitae through his association with Ravenor. In "Thorn Wishes Talon," he tells Ravenor about a plot to summon a daemon that would destroy the Sector, which he learns about from investigating that one-eyed-mirror-cult. Only at the end of Ravenor Returned

That said, I do think that Enuncia does expose you to risk - you have to already be pretty deep into forbidden lore to even know of its existence, and using it causes physical discomfort and spiritual corruption.

While I've mostly found BL prose to be lackluster at best, I do wish they'd return to doing comics or graphic novelsand to some extent short stories. Those I remember with great fondness.
I particularly liked Inquisitor Ascendant, Titan, Daemonifuge and the one-off short comics they used to do, like Deff Skwadron.

Those were fantastic. They embody 40K much more than any book ever could.