Warhammer Novels

they suck and are unoriginal. only good WHFB content that exists is the RPG when it was being managed by GW staff so 1st n 2nd edition. literal the best "moment" ive read in a blacklibary WHFB book was a rip off of a cathulu moment the author probably remembered from a game he had played in his RPG group the night before. Black library is written by FANS (mostly) its really important to remember. even rick priestly thinks most of black library is tossh

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The whole Time of Legends series is worth a look, and Malus Darkblade is pretty solid. Gaunt's Ghosts and Ciaphas Cain are pretty much mandatory 40k reading too

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and his wife directly is the bread winner of his family and a GW employee like. trust me dude don't waste years reading black library you will regret it and end up realising you just read a bunch of stuff people who also want to play wargames wrote but don't have big collection and are "waiting" that's literally why black library exist. things like HH are different because there is a huge minatures line being directly inspired and directed by that series so now HH is basically a 1st hand historical source but the other fiction isn't

best sources for understanding GW fiction is step one realising these universes are not fictional universes they are "game worlds" they are designed to encourage limitless play within them that does not mean they have limitless place for fiction.

White Dwarf is the NUMBER1 source for all GW fiction its still used by the actual staff as the direct source and GW is even releasing retro books that include their content (scanned) because GW archive only has the physical books too.

read WD 50 or so to about 280 and you will understand 40k WHFB and the fluff and storys within more than any other source and if your reading thru BL books you will be able to churn thru thous magazines ALOT faster and absorb ALOT more in maybe 2weeks.

2nd source should be Specialist games and RPGs things like the inquisitor specialist game things like BFG for wider Tau lore *(that was never explored in core games) and things like the RPG books that at least the older ones where definatly OK"ed and Cleared by core GW staff so are of highish quality. the 40k stuff is a bit more trashy but they are still ok if you want that "expanded" feeling before you even consider blacklibary. like dude I'm sorry to burst your literary bubble here but blacklibary advertise at GW events literally strait up asking fans (do you want to wright for us) like. that might be a Kewl outreach program of the modern day but honestly I think its admitting a lot.

also reading the latest 40k releases like The beast rises the endtimes makes no sense if you don't already understand the lore or have years invested in the lore or systems or culture. you literally will be wasting your time. even reading HH is abit of a waste of time if you haven't been playing and reading codexs and reading thigns like WD for years and years like ALOT of the references are going to fall on dead ears dude (unless your hyper intelligent and good at research and finding connections which you might be so power2u) seriously dude HH is DENSE id stick to it while researching every thing you don't understand and leave things like Endtimes and Beast Rises and Nagash until you have read the core rule books or magazines that introduce the very lore thous things explore. I'm reading Endtimes atm but its mostly because I DONT want to read any thing about WHFB ever again and just want to read it and forget but it feels simlar to how HH was for me as a fresh 40k fan I just knew it wasn't the same as for old time fans. idknow man GW fiction is really targeted very narrow its for 2 types of people and I just don't think you fall into either category its either for heavily invested fans who have been playing for years or its for people trying to justify jumping in to one faction and need to obsess over some thing while saving up money. like. and if you haven't guest the obsessive content is of low quality and the historic content is undigestable unless you have read all these Whitedwarf unless you have read all these rulebooks and codex and armybooks that. like. its really hard to get into this shit if you use black library as your number1 source that's all I'm warning you about sorry if this is overly negative on BL but really.. I think get the worlds pretty well and I don't think BL has helped me in that and ive read quite a bit of it from quite afue eras and it hasn't got better or bade its stayed what it always is fanfic.

so ya basically burn books man.

>>48610016
Nagash and the Genevieve novels are the best examples of fantasy books for 40k Ciaphas Cain and all of Dan Abnetts(hh is hit or miss) stuff is good.

Riders of the Dead is my favourite Fantasy book

>>48610016
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>>48610016
Gotrek and Felix series is great, keep up with it.

Bear in mind that realmgate wars series takes place in a different setting. Its the sequal to the warhammer setting after end times blew everything up. While it's pretty cool, especially for the wargame rules, I hear the writing quality of the black library novels is subpar. So take that for what you will. If you want to keep with just the traditional warhammer fantasy, don't read any of the age of sigmar stuff.

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To get some flavour for fantasy, I'd recommend adding 'Drachenfels' to your list. As well as 'Stories from the Old World' anthology, some amazing work in there.

'Storm of Iron' is a great piece for 40k that I'd recommend - as well as the aforementioned Gaunts Ghosts. Definitely a must read series.

'Beasts in Velvet' is a decent read if you'd like to see a different side of the Empire.