Warhammer 40,000 Novels

OU Ariakas said:

I thought Echos of Eternity (Siege of Terra Book #7) was great. ADB is one of their best writers and he really captured the feeling of the end of the Siege. Last two chapters and the one page epilogue are *chef's kiss*

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Yeah he is amazing. Betrayer is absolute top notch.

Regime said:

Humble bundle 40K audiobooks
$18 for 21 books

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for anyone looking for a link

Tuco said:

for anyone looking for a link

Audio Tales from the Indomitus Crusade 2022 by Black Library

We’ve bundled some of the best Warhammer 40,000 audiobooks together for your convenience, from beloved authors Gav Thorpe, Guy Haley, Chris Wraight and more!

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Thanks was on metro and just wanted to let you guys know asap

Ranak said:

After the Warhammer-Cavill news I picked up my first 40k book, Horus Rising, which maybe wasn't the best place to start for someone new to the books and lore, but it was a fantastic listen. Narrator on audiobook did a great job. Almost done with False Gods now. Heard quality varies greatly across the series - when does it start going downhill or it is just random? Seems the Horus Heresy series is so long that I'm not sure how long I'll stick with it after the first 3-5 books I guess. Any advice?

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Probably my favorite book series. I am on Betrayer which I think is book 24. Definitely do 1-5.


from there you will have a lot of books that go back to the past like Dark Angels, word bearers etc I am doing audiobooks so it’s great for when I’m heading to work or traveling which I do alot of.

He likes short stories where most of 40klore Reddit says skip. I love them too but not necessarily needed.

If you find yourself slogging through, watch an arch video and move on and come back later. I knock ‘em out while driving and painting.

Gavinmad said:

I like filler when it's short stories, and they frequently tell excellent little tales.

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No fucking way you didn’t read Betrayer yet.

Absolute must if you like First heretic


Freaking read Angel and Betrayer

The Way Out was great if anyone wants a good dead space horror 40K novel. I loved it.

event horizon meets 40k

short 1-2 hour read

Gavinmad said:

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Dude your jaded ass literally said you like short stories and this is one of the best. The audiobook is better than the book because it’s got a great cast and sound effects. It’s pretty awesome because it’s just regular joes not Astertes.

It’s a short book like 1-2 hours. Pretty cool creepy Event Horizonish little story. This team is lost in the warp and gets hailed by another ship. They show up and shit starts to go south.

Gavinmad said:

the joke is that Event Horizon can't meet 40K because it already is 40k you doofus.

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And I’m saying the whole demon blood rape creepy scene type stuff that made the movie awesome is in the book. It’s more like HP love craft writing style. It’s a horror novel.

Doofus

I finished Betrayer and it had a great ending. Now I am reading Mark Of Calth. It’s Erebus short stories about the anathame dagger.

Wrapped up Scars (excellent) and half way done with Vengeful Spirit. (Awesome)

Absolutely loving the foundation of the Grey Knights.

Bloodrocuted said:

Siege discussion here. Just finishing The End and the Death, the penultimate Siege/Hours Heresy novel by Abnett. Despite the melodramatic title, I will say I'm liking it more than most of his other recent stuff, however I have several gripes with the Siege novels in general, and most specifically the last 2 or 3:

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The Heresy novels started out doing a good job switching between Traitor and loyal legions' povs, although they did favor the loyalists. In the last few, however, we hardly see anything from the traitor point of view, which is much more interesting to me. Good is boring (or dumb according to Darth Helmet).

Despite having what should be demonic advantages, the loyalists pretty much kick traitors' asses in anything approaching a fair fight (Sanguinious vs Angron and Kabandah was just ridiculous, he hardly needed to try to wipe them out one after the other). Every traitor legion is made to look pretty weak, whereas all the loyalists from their primarchs to average marines just rack up kills efortlessly.

Give me some chaos heroes kicking ass. We get pages and pages of Rann, Sanguinius, the Khan, Sigismund, Zephon, Loken, etc but very little traitors doing jack shit. A bit of Kharn til he gets destroyed and maybe a bit of Abaddon til he gets teleported out before he would have died.

I just wish all the authors weren't so one-sided.

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I guess for me I’m loving it. I was obsessed with chaos since the 90’s. I’ve owned all the armies now at one point or another and many of the old books. I feel like I’m kinda glad the good guys are kicking some butt knowing what happens in 40K. I’ve read all the books this year so it’s still fresh on my mind compared to reading them over 15 years. This scene saddened me to my core having grown fond of these two. I then found myself going forward rooting for the good guys…..





“I told you to run, you fool.”




Huron-Fal caught him. ‘I told you to run, you fool.’ The captain flung off his helmet with a final, agonised gesture of defiance. It was useless now, the virus having moved effortlessly through the breather grille and into his lungs. His hand flailed at the metal flank of the Dreadnought and traced a runnel of dark fluid.

Even through the pain, Temeter understood. There was a small fracture in the old warrior’s ceramite casing, not enough to have slowed him on the battlefield, but more than the virus needed to reach inside the Dreadnought’s hull and savage the remnants of flesh inside. ‘You… lied.’

‘Veteran’s prerogative,’ came the reply. ‘We’ll go together then, shall we?’ Huron-Fal asked, embracing Temeter’s body to him, moving swiftly away from the bunker. It took every last effort from Temeter to nod. Blinded now, he could feel the tissues of his eyes burning and shrivelling in his head, the soft meat of his lips and tongue dissolving.

Huron-Fal’s systems were on the verge of shut-down as he stumbled to a safe distance, skidding to a halt. ‘This death,’ rasped the voder, ‘this death is ours. We choose it. We deny you your victory.’

With a single burning nerve impulse, the mind of the warrior at the heart of the Dreadnought uncoupled the governor controls on his compact fusion generator and let it overload. For a moment there was a tiny star on the battered plains outside the Choral City, marking two more lives lost within a maelstrom of murder.