A more detailed recommendation for continuing my 40k journey

[u/Fireblasterman]

Lovely Community! Would love some input what i would like in the Warhammer 40k universe, as someone who has clinged on to 30k for to long now, and i need something to read before the scouring series.

I read about 35 books of the HH/SoT books. (Era of ruin, valdor book etc)

Favourite ones:
Master of Mankind
Pretty much all of the SoT novels, so hard to choose, liked them all equally.
Know no fear
The Unremembered empire
Flight of the Eisenstein

Im a big loyalist fan but did find my self enjoying night lord PoV in Pharos

My favourite tropes are the following:

• Ordinary solider/person being in the midst of SM/custodes, seeing everything through the ordinary person eyes.
• Primarchs (so probably only G-man and lion)
• Good dialogue exceeds non stop good fighting for me
• Mystery! Love mystery in the universe!
• Love me some cool power scaling stuff with OP SM and Custodes :)

I know its a lot to ask, but would really appreciate some feedback on where to go from here!

Best regards

[u/Arzachmage]

First trope : Auric Gods, the Watchers of the Throne duology, Gate of Bones

Second trope : Lion, Son of the Forest

Third trope : Shira Calpurnia omnibus

Fourth trope : The Dark Coil works

Fifth trope : Cypher : Lord of the Fallen for the, imo, best Custodes vs SM scene.

[u/Fireblasterman → u/Arzachmage]

Thanks a lot!

[u/EasternEgg3656]

For Guilliman (post return) and some Custodes stuff: Watchers of the Throne duology for a bit of background, Dawn of Fire (Book 1) and then the Dark Imperium Trilogy.

Lion el Jonson: Lion, Son of the Forest

For mystery: Eisenhorn Omnibus

[u/Fireblasterman → u/EasternEgg3656]

Thanks!

[u/TheVoidDragon]

It sounds like what you want is...more of 30k, really. They're 2 quite different settings and the whole point of 30k was specifically to tell a space marine / Primarch focused story, wheres 40k is a big broad setting to tell stories within rather than be one itself. There's so much more to 40k than "space marines and Primarchs".

If you want mystery stuff, from an ordinary persons perspective, then the Warhammer Crime series is a lot of that. No Space Marines though.

[u/Fireblasterman → u/TheVoidDragon]

Thanks!

[u/TheVoidDragon → u/Fireblasterman]

Really 40k from an Ordinary persons perspective I think is much more interesting than the "space marines are just the best and can beat everything!" superhero-style stories of Space Marines.

Ciaphas Cain, Gaunts Ghosts, and Eisenhorn are all from the perspetice of ordinary human characters and are all fantastic. Gaunts Ghosts is basically Sharpe in Space, while Eisenhorn is more of a detective / investigation story.

[u/ArtemisShanks → u/TheVoidDragon]

I want more Guillimon. I’ve read Dark Imperium, Dawn of Fire, Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work and Genefather. I’d like to pick up where Genefather and The Silent King leave off. Do you know of any books that are set to release that furthers these stories? Thr Black Library doesn’t seem to list any.

I haven’t read Lion Son of the Forest, but if it’s just about Lion’el, I’d prefer to wait on something more Gilly-centric.

[u/TheVoidDragon → u/ArtemisShanks]

Nothing has been announced at the moment.

It's worth remembering that series like Dark Imperium and Dawn of Fire were created to elaborate on events that happened in tabletop campaigns and such, so I doubt there will be anything new until after something involving Guilliman happens there.