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As we all know, the 40k universe is quite large with plenty of variety. You can find different aliens and humans living different lifestyles, which makes for an expansive range of stories. Unfortunately people seem to fall into writing the same stories over and over again. I can only read so many space marine stories before they blur into the same thing. So what stories would you want to read about?

Two I would like to see are:

Space Marine creation. The story of a kid's metamorphosis from adolescent to mankind's greatest warrior.

Tau. I'd like to see more stories about either Tau or humans living within the Tau empire. I think there's plenty of opportunity here.

I also want to clarify that it doesn't have to be completely unique, just something that isn't used very often.

I would like the Space Marine-creation-thing especially with what can go wrong. That would be extremely interesting to watch. I mean there you can go Fallout on them.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
Space Marine creation. The story of a kid's metamorphosis from adolescent to mankind's greatest warrior.

Already been done...read Space Marine, the second book, and first novel, written about W40K. As a bonus, it contains squats...

maybe a third person novel following the eventful lifestyle a ork nob (a survivable one) participating in a great waaagh, or has this already been done?
To see the hilariously funny yet brutal ins and outs of ork culture? and what it looks like to be on the ork side of a colossal waaagh? or maybe just to hear about some face eating squig contests in detail

I'd like to see more WH40K detective fiction (Re: Eisenhorn, Ravenor)

I'd like to see an Imperial Guard novel but from the point of view of an ordinary citizen who's world is invaded and watches from the sidelines as his world is crushed between both the invader and the brutality of the 'rescuing' Imperial forces.

I'd like to see a lay priest dealing with all the gak of a hive world using only his faith (and occasionally his purifying flamer).

I'd like to see a tech priest on a forge world deal with all the political rivalry between the various factions of the Mechanicum.

Basically, more stories of the Home Front!

I'm a big time Ork player and fluff writer. I think Orks are tough to write for.

Why? Cause they're the brutal comedy troupe of the 40K ooniverse. It's tough to write for a crew like that and make them engaging enough to make you want to follow/root for them.

Heck, it's hard to make Orks the primary adversaries in a 40K story. Typically they're the appetizer, with the 'real' threat revealed once the Orks are wrecked. The other half of the time Orks are pawns, manipulated by or driven before the predations of a more credible villain (cue demonic laugh).

In most 40K writing you either can't take Orks seriously or they're so brutally savage that you can't identify with them. Or both. Making them protagonists you're interested in following? Please.

It would take real skill to portray Orks characters believably. It would take even more skill to take the cartoony Ork society/ecosystem and make it believable. So naturally I'd like to see a competent writer take a crack at Orks.

I'd give it a shot meself, but I jus ain't got da writin' chops.

My two teef.

Warboss Gorhack wrote:
I'm a big time Ork player and fluff writer. I think Orks are tough to write for.

Why? Cause they're the brutal comedy troupe of the 40K ooniverse. It's tough to write for a crew like that and make them engaging enough to make you want to follow/root for them.

Heck, it's hard to make Orks the primary adversaries in a 40K story. Typically they're the appetizer, with the 'real' threat revealed once the Orks are wrecked. The other half of the time Orks are pawns, manipulated by or driven before the predations of a more credible villain (cue demonic laugh).

In most 40K writing you either can't take Orks seriously or they're so brutally savage that you can't identify with them. Or both. Making them protagonists you're interested in following? Please.

It would take real skill to portray Orks characters believably. It would take even more skill to take the cartoony Ork society/ecosystem and make it believable. So naturally I'd like to see a competent writer take a crack at Orks.

I'd give it a shot meself, but I jus ain't got da writin' chops.

My two teef.

I've seen it done well, look into dawn of war 2 retribution. An ork freeboota saves an entire subsector for a good fight and an inquisitors hat. Thoroughly enjoyed dem orks. +1 for THQ on that.

As said in my thread, what renegade space marines who dont go chaos do with their lives

A book about the Iron Warriors as written by ADB. None of this whiny Waah Waah never get any credit stuff from Angel Exterminatus.

I'd like to see the Iron Warriors as bitter but resigned to their fate. Instead of complaining about their role, they bottle it up and do the crappy siege job without question, slowly bottling up all their resentment and bitterness until it finally breaks open. But ironically, their silence on the matter is the reason they kept being taken for Siege duty in the first place, and if they had voiced their discomfort some change might have come.

 Beaviz81 wrote:
I would like the Space Marine-creation-thing especially with what can go wrong. That would be extremely interesting to watch. I mean there you can go Fallout on them.

I imagine Space Maines lose many friends along the modification process.

I want to see a book from the Necrons point of view. Whether its just awakening and purging their world, harvesting a remote world or fighting tyranids and nuking suns.

I want to see a book that doesn't have any characters from the Imperium of Man.

 Mr Nobody wrote:

 Beaviz81 wrote:
I would like the Space Marine-creation-thing especially with what can go wrong. That would be extremely interesting to watch. I mean there you can go Fallout on them.

I imagine Space Maines lose many friends along the modification process.

Yeah just ask Ragnar Blackmane. He lost loads of friends That would made for an interesting movie.

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I want to see a book that doesn't have any characters from the Imperium of Man.

Pretty much this. Xeno fiction. Good xeno fiction, not a book "about" Tau where Tau get curb stomped by marines or guard. The Shadowsun novel made me want to weep.

I remember an interview with Gav Thorpe where he said he had to fight to to write the eldar path books because the thinking was "if its not Space Marine fiction it wont sell".

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I want to see a book that doesn't have any characters from the Imperium of Man.

This has already been done multiple times with the Eldar.

I'd love to see the event in which the Blood Angels and Grey Knights team up, and then everyone gets their memory erased, as referenced in the codex.

Actually in the present codex it was they had to swear an oath of silence (or so I have heard), but I would love seeing that as well.

 PrometheusZero wrote:
I'd like to see more WH40K detective fiction (Re: Eisenhorn, Ravenor)

I'd like to see an Imperial Guard novel but from the point of view of an ordinary citizen who's world is invaded and watches from the sidelines as his world is crushed between both the invader and the brutality of the 'rescuing' Imperial forces.

I'd like to see a lay priest dealing with all the gak of a hive world using only his faith (and occasionally his purifying flamer).

I'd like to see a tech priest on a forge world deal with all the political rivalry between the various factions of the Mechanicum.

Basically, more stories of the Home Front!

Absolutely this! What are all these people fighting and dying to defend?

A hive city is the perfect setting for detective stories, rebellion, political intrigue. What goes through the mind of a rebellious governor torn between his people the imperium and his own ambition? How does a ministorum priest convert the wild death world population to the imperial faith? What happens when two hive cities go to war with one another?

Some more fluff about the Nids.
Ala Anphelion project. Not just another invasion but the Imperiums or another factions attempt to analyse or study them.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I want to see a book that doesn't have any characters from the Imperium of Man.

This has already been done multiple times with the Eldar.

Dark Eldar too.

 redrooster148 wrote:
maybe a third person novel following the eventful lifestyle a ork nob (a survivable one) participating in a great waaagh, or has this already been done?

Already done. See Engine of Mork and the follow-up, Evil Sun Rising.

 Orblivion wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:

 EmpNortonII wrote:
I want to see a book that doesn't have any characters from the Imperium of Man.

This has already been done multiple times with the Eldar.

Dark Eldar too.

And far superior in that regard.

Chaos vs Tau is what i wanna see.

PrometheusZero wrote:I'd like to see more WH40K detective fiction (Re: Eisenhorn, Ravenor)

I'd like to see an Imperial Guard novel but from the point of view of an ordinary citizen who's world is invaded and watches from the sidelines as his world is crushed between both the invader and the brutality of the 'rescuing' Imperial forces.

I'd like to see a lay priest dealing with all the gak of a hive world using only his faith (and occasionally his purifying flamer).

I'd like to see a tech priest on a forge world deal with all the political rivalry between the various factions of the Mechanicum.

Basically, more stories of the Home Front!

I believe that, in order, your desires have been partially filled by;

Dead Men Walking and Necropolis

Not done

Titanicus and Mechanicum (although for different eras)

Exalted Pariah wrote:I want to see a book from the Necrons point of view. Whether its just awakening and purging their world, harvesting a remote world or fighting tyranids and nuking suns.

Throne of Baal: Devourer was pretty much this.

Eldar could be fun.
A eldar who goes down the path of outcast, meets dark eldar, corsairs and then maybe returns to craft world with having expwerinced far more buoth good and bad, loyalties, betrayals, wars and all manner of gak in the universe of grimdarkness

 jhe90 wrote:
Eldar could be fun.
A eldar who goes down the path of outcast, meets dark eldar, corsairs and then maybe returns to craft world with having expwerinced far more buoth good and bad, loyalties, betrayals, wars and all manner of gak in the universe of grimdarkness

There is already a book on this.

I want some bolter porn, you know the type, with bullet gaking bad-asses, triumphing over insurmountable odds, pulling off gak they, by rights, should not be able to. Author hyperbole, crazy grim-dark nuttyness and over the top stuff all over the shop.

One difference though: rather than Astartes, it's about Sororitas.

@Wyzilla

There is already a book about everything. There is about a 100 Space Marine battle novel all about the same thing: the struggle of an heroic few against all odds and how their sense of brotherhood was both shaken and kept them strong. I think that if we can make more than a 100 different novels on that theme and more, I think we can give a different spin on Path of the Outcast scenario. Hell, in that book, if his would be girlfriend had followed him that story would have been very different. We can still explore eldars and dark eldars a lot more. Just like we can explore a lot more stuff in the univers of 40K. Here are my personnal favorite.

1) A civilian story during a important war.
2) A revolt in a schola progenium.
3) A political thriller on an important planet
4) Deff skwadron tome II
5) A cadian (or other nation/planet) kid in war
6) A good dark eldar novel
7) A serie of novels like Horus Heresy about the Reign of Blood
8) A tau war reporter story
9) A kroot mercenary adventures
10) A cheesy, but very cheesy romance story (no fiction setting is complete with at least one of them)

epronovost wrote:
@Wyzilla

There is already a book about everything. There is about a 100 Space Marine battle novel all about the same thing: the struggle of an heroic few against all odds and how their sense of brotherhood was both shaken and kept them strong. I think that if we can make more than a 100 different novels on that theme and more, I think we can give a different spin on Path of the Outcast scenario. Hell, in that book, if his would be girlfriend had followed him that story would have been very different. We can still explore eldars and dark eldars a lot more. Just like we can explore a lot more stuff in the univers of 40K. Here are my personnal favorite.

1) A civilian story during a important war.
2) A revolt in a schola progenium.
3) A political thriller on an important planet
4) Deff skwadron tome II
5) A cadian (or other nation/planet) kid in war
6) A good dark eldar novel
7) A serie of novels like Horus Heresy about the Reign of Blood
8) A tau war reporter story
9) A kroot mercenary adventures
10) A cheesy, but very cheesy romance story (no fiction setting is complete with at least one of them)

Fabiorus, manliest of brothers from the Heartbreakers chapter has only one love in his life, the Emperor of Mankind, but could a shapely Inquisitor be changing his mind?

Fabiorus, manliest of brothers from the Heartbreakers chapter has only one love in his life, the Emperor of Mankind, but could a shapely Inquisitor be changing his mind?

It needs to be 20% cheesier. let's give them a time limit and make the inquisitor potentially infatuated with a Sister of Battle. That way he is not shure if he wants to swing both ways.