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Posted By : PaulMc - 5/18/2006 9:28 AM

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

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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

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

Posted By : nathan - 5/18/2006 11:01 PM

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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Posted By : wolf - 5/22/2006 10:25 AM

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.

Posted By : Kane - 6/17/2006 2:10 AM

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

Posted By : PaulMc - 6/21/2006 2:34 PM

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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