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PaulMc
Adept

Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 992

Posted 5/18/2006 10:28 AM (GMT -4)

I finished reading the first novel, Xenos, of the Warhammer 40,000 Eisenhorn omnibus. It was really good. (yes, Howard, I'll get a review written eventually when I finish the entire omnibus

)

Yesterday I bought Let the Galaxy Burn. It's an anthology. I didn't realize it until I saw it in the store--it is huge. It is the size of an omnibus and features thirty-eight (count 'em!) stories.

I'll be a-while with that one, too.

I've liked my Warhammer and Warhammer 40K reads so far. A few were 'functional'--readable but not special. But some have really stood out (Xenos, Trollslayer.)

Definitely a line worth giving a try if you like dark, gritty fantasy and/or dark, gritty space opera.

-- Paul McNamee

My Writings
The Tales of Doran Coyle
Contributing Editor, Sword and Sorcery.org

nathan
Sage

Date Joined Mar 2006
Total Posts : 2113

Posted 5/19/2006 12:01 AM (GMT -4)

I've only read the Warhammer 40k, line but I have to agree its good gritty space opera. I really enjoyed that and am keeping my eye out for some regular Warhammers to try. Now I know where to start.

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wolf
Stablehand

Date Joined Feb 2006
Total Posts : 8

Posted 5/22/2006 11:25 AM (GMT -4)

I'd recommend some of the Warhammer fantasy stuff too. In particular, the stories by Jack Yeovil (aka Kim Newman) are good: Drachenfels and Beasts in Velvet are both very entertaining. They now come collected as The Vampire Genevieve along with various other short stories.

Kane
Neophyte

Date Joined Jan 2005
Total Posts : 57

Posted 6/17/2006 3:10 AM (GMT -4)

If you liked Xenos, you should give Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series a try.

If you want a good novel detailing starship combat in the 40K setting, you really need to read Gordon Rennie's Execution Hour; http://www.blacklibrary.com/product.asp?prod=60109999029&type=Book

You say God's spark has kindled my eye,
As the sun-rise reddens the east;
Into your beards I roar the lie-
'Tis the gleam of the stalking beast.
Robert E. Howard

PaulMc
Adept

Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 992

Posted 6/21/2006 3:34 PM (GMT -4)

Kane said...
If you liked Xenos, you should give Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series a try.

If you want a good novel detailing starship combat in the 40K setting, you really need to read Gordon Rennie's Execution Hour; http://www.blacklibrary.com/product.asp?prod=60109999029&type=Book

Thanks for the recommendation.

I have (finally) started to read C. L. Werner's Witch Hunter. Mathias Thulmann is quite the character. He is, indeed, "something of a hybrid of Matthew Hopkins and Solomon Kane" as C. L. stated in his interview a-while back.

-- Paul McNamee

My Writings
The Tales of Doran Coyle
Associate Editor, SwordAndSorcery.org

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