With his vision for mankind virtually realized, the emperor gives up control to his Warmaster, Horus, and returns to Terra. The Emperor withdraws from the front lines on the verge of triumph. The Imperium of man has reached its zenith after thousands of years of growth and conquest. Horus Rising is the ideal synthesis of military 40k cuisine and character development, and Horus Growing is only the beginning.
While the Imperial Guard struggles to manage widespread social unrest, can the astute Commisar Cain uncover the true villain before the planet is permanently lost to the Imperium? 2. However, when the alien envoy is assassinated and the situation soon spins out of hand, Cain and his Valhallan army find themselves embroiled in a conflict. Ciaphas Cain is sent to assist in maintaining order on an outpost world on the outside of Tau space. The truth is much different since Ciaphas is only seeking to complete his term as Commissar without being assassinated. Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Imperium’s hero, revered by his colleagues, and an inspiration to his soldiers – or so history’s distorted lens would have you think! Most of the authors are not very good.For the Emperor serves as the introduction of the Ciaphas Cain trilogy. I have to say apart from those I've not enjoyed a lot of Warhammer 40K fiction. The only downside is the prose gets a bit repetitive if you read a bunch of them because the same phrases get reused a lot. A bit tongue in cheek and light hearted but they are fun. It's still schlock but it's a cut above the average and I can honestly say I've never read a book by him I didn't enjoy, which is actually more than I can say for Abnett.Īside from that, I do genuinely enjoy the Sandy Mitchell Ciaphas Cain books. He has a couple of other tropes in his novels that I really enjoy - there's always someone from the Mechanicum, there's always a cool space battle or two, and there's always a couple of badass normal humans around to enjoy. Great take on Astartes as developmentally frozen children in monstrous, powerful bodies, driven by bizarre and strangely childish obsessions. The Helsreach and Night Lords books are really enjoyable for me. If we're excluding Abnett, then I would say ADB is my next favourite black library author. A book about two immortal murderers bantering through time and space certainly opened my heart to the fact that they have personalities now instead of being pure deathless killing machines. When I came back to the hobby I was fairly put off by the newcrons. I really enjoyed the comic tragedy of it. Personally, a book I just picked up was the Infinite and the Divine, apparently by a debut author, Robert Rath. We can perhaps exclude the obvious Dan Abnett books out of this, as they are particularly well known. I'm particularly keen to hear about more recent books as most of what I've read was some years ago.
Perhaps conversely are there any books you've read from a favourite author that missed the mark? Ignoring any particular army bias, what, to you, are amongst the genuinely well written books out there in the warhammer universe?Īnd indeed which authors for you always stand out?
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