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I think Horus fell because of a combination of the two, rather than just one.
I think you could say that, yes.
Are you a fan of 40k as a setting, or just of Ciaphas Cain? If your Black Library exposure is limited to just the Cain series, I'd suggest looking at Scourge the Heretic and Innocence Proves Nothing, both by Sandy Mitchell. They were sort of tie-ins to the Dark Heresy RPG, and are quite entertaining in their own right. After that, my suggestions would be the early Gaunt's Ghosts books, Matthew Farrer's Enforcer trilogy and the Eisenhorn trilogy. Not comic, but still excellent at getting into the feel of the setting. Ian Watson's Inquisitor (reprinted as Draco, book 1 of the Inquisition War trilogy) and Space Marine are also fine books. Don't bother with the sequels to Draco; they go off the rails.
I also want to read The Emperor's Gift, for the bits where the Space Wolves make the Grey Knights their bitch. :D
edited 4th Nov '13 5:17:01 AM by AndrewGPaul
I'd also strongly recommend the Ravenor trilogy, as it is essentially the sequel to Eisenhorn and IMO is a slightly better series.
I love the Cain books; the first omnibus was how I got introduced to 40K proper (Shinji and Warhammer40k being my first ever exposure). Now that The Greater Good is out, I think a new omnibus will be coming out sometime late next year.
edited 4th Mar '14 10:28:26 AM by Willbyr
I have a whole bunch of WH 40 K ebooks, I need to start digging through them for stuff I like. Sandy Mitchell needs to write more Ciaphas Cain books though, I love them that much.
Ravenor was good, I suppose, but not as good as I remember Eisenhorn being.
At the moment, I have Pariah to read. I'm waiting for The Greater Good* to come out in paperback, and am still hoping for an ebook release of the Necromunda novels.
- I keep hearing that as if spoken by a chorus of West Country voices.
So I read Pariah in one night. It was quite good. there's an awful lot of Chaos Space Marines in it - Word Bearers, an Emperor's Child and an Alpha Legionary who appears to be in Eisenhorn's retinue.
The return of an old ... favourite? in the last page, too. Makes me want to play =][=nquisitor again. Or perhaps even buy that 28mm Eisenhorn mini off Ebay for a hundred quid. :)
edited 10th Mar '14 2:46:55 AM by AndrewGPaul
Doesn't Kor Phaeron try to use the daemonsword to corrupt Guilliman and get a No-Sell?
Schild und Schwert der ParteiThe Horus Heresy novels are an interesting lot, since they're written by different people. The first book of the series is wonderful. The second book...not so much. I don't know about the third, because I couldn't finish the second.
And Ciaphas also exists in an interesting lot; we want more, but at a certain point things can only go downhill, so I for one am glad that things appear to be stopping before the series jumps the shark.
If you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy, have some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.I kind of tailed off from the HH books somewhere in the early 20s. Space marines aren't interesting enough as characters to support such a lengthy series.
Maybe if they'd been Imperial Armour books or something like an Osprey book...
edited 21st Mar '14 1:30:25 PM by InverurieJones
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