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Does any one know anything about what the first novel written for 40K was about?
Man i hope i worded that right

First novel for 40k in a particular series or just generically about 40k? Published by GW (or arm thereof) or fan fiction?

40K has been around for quite some time now and there has always been fiction of some sort attached to it.

filbert wrote:First novel for 40k in a particular series or just generically about 40k? Published by GW (or arm thereof) or fan fiction?

40K has been around for quite some time now and there has always been fiction of some sort attached to it.

Produced by GW or BL which ever came first...and by the whole i mean the first novel ever set in the dark millennium

I think Ian Watson's novels might have been the first. He wrote the Inquisitor trilogy and Space Marine. His novels feel a bit out of place now, though.

AlexHolker wrote:I think Ian Watson's novels might have been the first. He wrote the Inquisitor trilogy and Space Marine. His novels feel a bit out of place now, though.

I think he may be the first author if not very close to it...


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And if he was the first his book space marine seems like it is the bases for the newer sons of dorn novel by Chris robberson

http://sfbook.com/space-marine.htm

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Warhammer-40000/Space-Marines/Sons-of-Dorn.html