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Books: Where to start? (lemmy.world)
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I've not played 40K since the 90s. I have vague memories of some major events like there being a Horus Heresy and some knowledge of Space Marine chapters (Blood Angels are mad, Ultramarines are dull, etc) and Chaos Gods (Nurgle is disease, Korn is angry, Tzeentch is knowledge and scorcery).

I want to start reading on a good Space Marine book but there's hundreds!! I thought about just picking the best rated on Good Reads but you seem to require a lot of background for some of them so I'm hesitant. E.g. Ragnar Blackmane has been recommended but I don't know enough about Space Wolves for the blurb on the back to make sense. Cadia? Flesh Tearers? Dark Angels - I only know they had cool dark-green armour in the 90s.

So any advice on where to begin that would be a an easy intro would be much appreciated!

Likes:

  • Space Wolves! Who doesn't like viking-space-wolfs? I'd love to learn more.
  • Magnus the Red (also a good guy and tragic - I only know this as I spent hours reading wikis!). Shitty armour though!
  • Chaos (esp. Tzeentch who I'm convinced is a true god and the only "Good Guy" in 40K)
  • The Emperor (evil bastard but interesting)
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[–] cristorf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

For chaos The Ahriman omnibus follows Ahriman from thr thousand sons legion after the heresy and is a fun story. It's got lots of thousand sons warp fuckery and some great characters.

The night lords omnibus is one of the first 40k books I read going into 40k with not a whole lot of knowledge. It's still probably my favorite 40k book, the characters are written incredibly well, the dark moments of horrific comedy are there, it features some great fights.

Fabius bile omnibus follows fabius bile of the emperors children legion in what's essential a great mad scientist story. Once again great characters and a fun story definitely worth the read.

The lion son of the forest is a very new 40k that follows the lions return to the setting. From what I remember it doesn't require a whole lot of backstory to be neccesary, as it explains a lot along the way. It's very involved with some dark angels space marine characters so I could be a decent jumping off point of sorts.