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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (29 children)

Just to give things some scale, the longest book series in WH 40k is the hours heresy. It's 60+ books. And that takes place in the 30th millennium, so it's just background to current times lore.

There are more than 300 novels to read, and that's just counting novels. There are also codexes (codecies?), other supplementary books, other game books (like dark heresy), and the many issues of the white dwarf magazine.

How absurd must Kirby lore be then?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Are the novels good? I'm not interested in any of the tabletop stuff but I'd love to have a shitload of books to read.

[–] snugglesthefalse 2 points 1 year ago

I finally got round to listening to a bunch of 40k stuff, I've read some in the past but not a lot and it's been a while. I started with the ciaphas cain series, it's somewhat comedic at times and the main character reluctantly gets into situations thanks to his heroic reputation. Lots of fun. Now I've been going through a bunch of Dan Abnett's stuff, eisenhorn and gaunt's ghosts. They both take themselves a lot more seriously. There's like 11 cain books and 16? Gaunt's ghosts books. It's all down to preference but I've been enjoying the guard-focused books a lot.

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