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Hi haven't read a lot, but I guess if I had to choose one it would be Fulgrim.
What about you ?
Short stories, ebooks, audio, whatever !

Ahriman: Exile

Betrayer
Just love the interactions between Characters Anrgon's and £We humanity that's being stripped away.


Runner-up: Return of Nagash, Mannfredd and Arkhan, so unapologetically villanous and yet so entertaining.

Titanicus was a good one, really gets across the dual reality of the Imperium, gives us some good descriptions of average Imperial life, and has some awesome Titan combat to boot!

A Thousand Sons. They're story was really tragic since they are probably the most unwilling of the traitors but their own actions dammed them due to hubris.

agurus1 wrote:
Titanicus was a good one, really gets across the dual reality of the Imperium, gives us some good descriptions of average Imperial life, and has some awesome Titan combat to boot!

I have just bought Titanicus ! Glad to hear it !

I enjoyed Titanicus too, but I think I prefered the Ultramarines and Blood Angels omnibuses.

Titanicus IMHO is an example of what 40k stories generally should be. great heorism, and folks doing a lot but...

Too bad about the new cover, though...

Rather than individual books, I'm going to highlight three series, plus one honourable mention.

- Ciaphas Cain
- Eisenhorn (your call on if you include the Ravenor books in here as well)
- Gaunt's Ghosts

Honourable mention to the Space Wolf series by William King.

Flight of the Eisenstein, by far.

Always had a soft spot for Drachenfels

gaunt's Ghosts and The Beast arises

ordoteutonicus wrote:
gaunt's Ghosts and The Beast arises

I hated beast arises. Weird how different opinions can be on literature and things.

I can second titanicus. Great book. Baneblade too. Very good.

I'm only one book into The Beast Arises, and have read mixed reviews about it. Most criticism seems to be it feels drawn out, is that fair criticism?

I'm not really sure on my favourite book. I like a lot of the obvious ones, Ciaphas Cain, Gaunt, Eisenhorn. I've just read the Yarrick omnibus and the two novels in that were great, although the one based on the 2nd war for Armageddon ends incredibly abruptly.

From what I have read recently, Cadia stands was a good read, and Cult of the Spiral Dawn was fairly average, but offered a great insight into GSC.

Night Lords trilogy was very enjoyable.

Reading about the armies the you collect or have interst in only help you get into the 40k universe; so I recommend everyone read or listen about their interest.

Outside of the series already mentioned, I thought ‘15 hrs’ was quite memorable. It’s a old stand alone about a Cadian whiteshield.

phillv85 wrote:
I'm only one book into The Beast Arises, and have read mixed reviews about it. Most criticism seems to be it feels drawn out, is that fair criticism?

I'm not really sure on my favourite book. I like a lot of the obvious ones, Ciaphas Cain, Gaunt, Eisenhorn. I've just read the Yarrick omnibus and the two novels in that were great, although the one based on the 2nd war for Armageddon ends incredibly abruptly.

From what I have read recently, Cadia stands was a good read, and Cult of the Spiral Dawn was fairly average, but offered a great insight into GSC.

I only got one book into it. Got the same impression, seemed they were making a series out of what could’ve been a book or trilogy. It was like they were trying to capture the same enthusiasm as the HH books but the story wasn’t big enough. I read it because I love ORKS and their wasn’t really one in it. And then I heard about prime ORKS and I hate that idea. So at £10 a book, I was out. Very disappointing. I hoped for a good look at ORK kultur and a waaagh in action. What I got was made up new giant ORKS and marines feeling sorry for them selves.


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Hellsreach is a good read too. And I’m not a fan of the templars but it showed them as 3 dimensional conflicted characters and thus more interesting.

 Baragash wrote:
Always had a soft spot for Drachenfels

Yeah, the old boxtree publications were generally much better. Drachenfels, Beasts in Velvet (despite the unnecessary cameos), and the Laughter of the Dark Gods short story in Ignorant Armies still stand out over twenty years since I first read them.

From the more recent publications, Pandorax, Storm of Iron, Flight of the Eisenstein and Betrayer are all decent reads.

Storm of Iron and 15h... the same books keep being mentionned throughout the internet, I guess they will be my next read (I am interested in The first heretic, too) !

Storm of Iron is great. I found 15 hours a little lacklustre after seeing so any recommendations for it.

Flight of the Eisenstein gets my vote, though I've started Storm of Iron recently, so we'll see.

Battle of the Fang for 40k.

Skavenslayer for Fantasy.

Time of Legends: Neferata.

Love the characters, the interactions and the story.

well technically is a GW book but not black library book..

'Ghost Dancers'.its a 'dark future' book but its brilliantly written.

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if i had to go with a bl book

Deamonworld by Ben Counter..its surprisingly good and a total left turn from all the bolter porn that comes out nowadays

Necropolis. It’s the perfect grim dark setting. An entire hive falls to chaos and marches to war down to every last man, women and child. There is no happy ending. The imperium wins but the city is declared dead.

 Generalstoner wrote:
Necropolis. It’s the perfect grim dark setting. An entire hive falls to chaos and marches to war down to every last man, women and child. There is no happy ending. The imperium wins but the city is declared dead.

Seconded.

Necropolis is a great demonstration of the concept of Total War taken to the furthest degree, I'd say, even against the 40K universe.

Storm of Iron was my first 40K book, and I think it's one of the best straight-up warfare books. Loads of good stuff in there.

Has to be the whole beast arises series so far for me, whilst Eisenhorn series are written in a much better way, no other series has had me go “wtf” as often as the beast series.

These are not the Orks we know and love, they are a proper space scaring civilisation... it’s pretty boss

 Formosa wrote:
Has to be the whole beast arises series so far for me, whilst Eisenhorn series are written in a much better way, no other series has had me go “wtf” as often as the beast series.

These are not the Orks we know and love, they are a proper space scaring civilisation... it’s pretty boss

the books aren't my favorite, but they do hold a special place for me in that they're the first books I read where I understood how SCARY Orks where. Orks where previously always sort of crude, stupid, often comedy relief, dangerous sure but B list threat at best. Beast arises showed me how the Orks could be a threat on a scale with chaos and Tyranids.