Warhammer 40,000 Novels

OUAriakas_sl said:

Is there a camp that think the Emporer planned on the HH happening and foresaw himself on the Golden Throne? Besides the obvious torture of the GT, I don't think he could have planned it since his ultimate goal was no belief and the eradicaiton of all other intelligent life. This would mean the Chaos gods have little to no power since the only beings that can fuel their power are either agnostic or completely atheist. The only good part about the God-Emporer phenomenon is that if he were to die and become a warp entity then his power would already be quite immense through all the worship he already receives.

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Not that I'm aware. Things diverged from his plan during the Heresy. Didn't really understand what fucker was saying there in the context of a reply to what I posted.

He flat out says he doesn't really know whats coming in The Outcast Dead.

yeah i did not read that book already, but what im talking about is just a hypotesys that the current Imperium was a planned thing the Emperor saw as necessary to really free humanity from the need of divinity

I just read Descent of Angels. I thought it was great until the ending. Its like the author ran out of time and just summarized everything with no explanation. Pretty lame.

Mark of Calth has been meh so far. About half way in and just haven't cared enough to take the time to read it.

I've only read about half of the books, and I enjoy the scenes where the Emperor shows up immensely. You could even say I read the books just to catch glimpses of the Emperor. I find the character very interesting. That being said, should I go about reading the other half of the books? Or do they primarily focus on Horus and the Primarchs? Rather than the Emperor himself.

"half of the books" is a bit vague description of what you have read and what you haven't

fucker_sl said:

"half of the books" is a bit vague description of what you have read and what you haven't

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Books read: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15.

oh.....fuck.......oh fuck yes.....

First up, we have some tidbits out of the Horus Heresy Weekender from Gav Thorpe who said that:

"He wants to do a series about each Phoenix Lord and their experiences of the fall, similar to Primarches and the Heresy"

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http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/...ar-arrive.html

fucker_sl said:

oh.....fuck.......oh fuck yes.....



http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/...ar-arrive.html

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As long as he doesn't write any of them, because his eldar books are among the worst 40k books in print, and that's saying something when you consider that C.S. Goto and Henry Zhou also write 40k books.


Just finished reading Blood Pact and Salvation's Reach, I really feel like Abnett is setting the readers up for a really gut-wrenching end of the series. Like, Kolea, Tona, and Dalin all dying at the same time gut-wrenching. I mean he really was delivering some hard shots in Armour of Contempt and Only In Death, Blood Pact and Salvation's Reach seem very mild in comparison, so I assume he's planning on ending the series with some real nastiness.

So I just finished reading Horus Rising as my very first Warhammer 40K book. What is the order the Horus Heresy books should be read in? I'm having a hard time finding a proper list of them all. Is the series even done yet, I'm assuming they end with Horus vs. Jesus? Also, since I've heard a lot about some Warhammer 40K books being absolutely atrocious, which ones should just be skipped cause they are just bad?

Just follow the list on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus_H...els)#Published. Some are better than others but I would say overall, that most are pretty good except: Flight of the Eisenstein, Battle for the Abyss and The Outcast Dead.

Just finished Horus Rising as well. Loved it and can't wait to start he next one.

False Gods is my prefered of the 3. it was fantastic see how everything spiraled out of control

yeah. Necropolis was the thing that got me into 40k (the next main factor was DoW1). i picked it out of curiosity when i found an old italian version in the "used" section of a local library (the old publisher stoped to distribute them so they are pretty rare in italy). i was simply blown away by it

i still have a lot to read, but so far the only real terrible books i've read were the Dawn of War books from C.S. Goto. Avoid them like nurgle plague

C.S. Goto is definitely the worst author in the entire Black Library, although Henry Zhou is a strong contender.

Dan Abnett and Graham McNeill are the two heavyweight authors in the Black Library, Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a rising star. Honestly, the only authors you really need to avoid are Goto, Zhou, and Gav Thorpe. Ben Counter has written some real shitfests, including what is arguably the single worst book of the entire Heresy series, but the Soul Drinkers series is fantastic imo. Basically, aside from the ones I mentioned by name, Black Library authors will generally deliver exactly what you'd expect for a sci-fi novel written in a pre-existing setting.

Some of Gav's stuff is good. The last chancers series is great despite the ending being sad times.

Taloo_sl said:

Some of Gav's stuff is good. The last chancers series is great despite the ending being sad times.

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you mean there are parts of 40k books that arent sad times?