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Horus Rising (1) (The Horus Heresy) warhammer 40k

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Horus Rising
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Re-release of the mass market edition of the first novel in the best selling Horus Heresy series Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. On the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favorite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, the idealistic Horus tries to carry out the Emperor'sgrand design, all the while the seeds of heresy…

After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at its height. His dream for humanity accomplished, the Emperor hands over the reins of power to his Warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra. But is Horus strong enough to control his fellow commanders and continue the Emperor’s grand design, or will such incredible power corrupt him?

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It all begins here. Witness Horus the hero, humanity’s greatest champion and the Emperor’s favoured son, before it all goes horribly, tragically wrong…

The eBook edition includes integrated illustrations of characters and events from the story, and an afterword that places the story in context within the series.

 

YES 54! the numbers of novels in this serie, telling the story of the betrayal of the emperor by Horus 10 000 year before the current warhammer 40K setting.

For a less daunting introduction to the grim far future universe you can try  (starting from the books that dont require prior knowledge of the 40k setting to enjoy):

Eisenhorm trilogy follow the inquisitor Eisenhorm on his hunt for heretics and demons, doesnt require knowledge of the universe

The space wolf omnibus best for an introductions to the world through the eyes of the infamous space marines. Follow the recruitement/creation of those human war machines.  no prior knowledge of warhammer needed

Gunt’s ghost follow Comissar Gunt as he lead an imperial soldier company. Good for giving the perspective of more ordinary soldiers on the  40K universe

Also : Ciaphas Cain : unusually comedic for the 40k universe follow Cain a cowardly commissar who’s actions keeps getting him ever more dangerous duty assignments

After that :

Ravenor the omnibus : follow Inquisitor Ravenor and his followers as they investigate a daemonic conspiracy that stretches across space and time

The Uriel Ventris chronicles  : Uriel Ventris takes command of the Ultramarines Fourth Company, more space marines goodness also a warhammer 40K beginner friendly serie

Cadian Blood more imperial soldiers grunts pitted against the unspeakable horrors of a Nurgles plague

Bloodlines : a kind of hard-boiled detective thriller in a hive city

Warhammer Horror serie : 30 books collecting horror novels/novellas set in the Warhammer 40k universe

Necromunda : a serie of unrelated books by various author also set in a hive city

Requiem infernal for a single novel following a chapter of the Adepta Sororitas a female only division of the Ecclesiarchy the state church of the imperium of man

Nights lords trilogy : for a view from one of the traitor legion having betrayed the emperor during the horus heresy to worship the chaos gods

Word Bearers omnibus : another serie centred on a chaos space marines chapter

The siege of terra serie : for the final stage of the horus heresy storyline (7 books)

The beasts arise set in warhammer 30k like the horus heresy but 2 millenium later ; the orks forces invade the imperium 12 novels collected in 3 omnibus

The Talon of Horus : two books set in the year 41999, the rise of Abaddon, successor to Horus and Warmaster of the Black Legion.

The Infinite and The Divine for a single novel spanning 10 000 years from the viewpoint of the necrons the oldest humanoid race of the galaxy turned into undead robotic skeletal long in the past

 

There is more on the site if you search the 40K universe tag

The Space Wolf Omnibus (Space Wolves Book 1) warhammer 40k

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Blackhearts: The Omnibus
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Classic collection of stories from the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Under threat of death for their crimes, Reiner Hetzau and his fellow prisoners are given a choice: they can either be executed or work for the very people that have imprisoned them.

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Raknar: The Northman

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The heart of a Northman beats only for more blood

Heir to the Bear Clan of Valheim, young Raknar anticipates the day he will become chief and lead his clan across the sea to pillage foreign shores. When his village is sacked, his clan put to the sword, Raknar must forge a new destiny, alone.

Captured during a raid on the Kingdom of Acheron, Raknar is enslaved by the diabolical Queen Zakara. She forces him to fight as a gladiator in the pits, but her true interest in Raknar lies in the fulfillment of a dark prophecy that will provide her an heir and unlock unworldly power.

 

Escaping to the exotic land of Byzantia, Raknar steals to survive, captures the heart of Princess Yabala, and is banished by the emperor for his impudence. Unable to win Yabala’s hand, he becomes a raider on the steppes, certain he will never see her again. But the gods have other plans for him. When Raknar learns that Queen Zakara has kidnapped Princess Yabala, Raknar must return to the dungeons of Acheron to face the queen and her fell sorceries once and for all.

 

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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers
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In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy… Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job… “A classic…If you want a great military adventure, this one is for you.”—All SciFi

Faceless: BASTION/Blackstone I

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Detective Blackstone investigates murder of a de-personed game developer who was deleted from the government surveillance system. In trying to get to the bottom of who the man was, and how he got deleted, Elliot runs afoul of a new, anonymous gang in the city. To unravel the mystery, he has to do what he hates most, play a VR video game the victim created and left behind. Unfortunately, the person most suited to help him…

Athenaeum, Inc.: Door Number Three

Athenaeum, Inc.: Door Number Three
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If you had enough capacity for violence to seize a billion dollars from a powerful drug cartel, would you do it?

The Professor has problems, and not just what decades of soldiering did to his back and his knees. His boss just died, leaving him as CEO of the extremely discreet intelligence contractor Athenaeum, Incorporated. His old buddy the Operations Director is a highly skilled Army Ranger veteran but his finance chief is slightly unhinged and spends her money on highly inappropriate work outfits. The surviving old men on the Board of Directors are stuck in the 1970s. Running Athenaeum out of an old Cold War bunker and keeping their roster of experts together is expensive, but the government contracts are drying up or going to bigger, flashier corporate players.

Then an intercepted phone call puts them on the trail of a drug cartel’s shipping container of “maybe” a billion dollars in cash, so its command decision time.

  • Door Number One, ignore it. But… a billion dollars with a capital B.
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Nightflyers

Nightflyers: The Illustrated Edition
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A gorgeous illustrated edition of a classic novella from the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones—a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, now an original series on SYFY. Featuring fifteen original illustrations, this is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills of Alien, the psychological horror of The Shining, and, of course, the inimitable vision of George R. R. Martin.

When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human.

But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice—or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost. Yet that’s not the only reason the ship seems haunted. The team’s telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Nightflyer—something dangerous, volatile, and alien.

Captain Eris claims to know nothing about the elusive intruder, and when someone, or something, begins killing off the expedition’s members, he’s unable—or unwilling—to stem the bloody tide. Only Melantha Jhirl, a genetically enhanced outcast with greater strength, stamina, and intelligence than other humans, has a chance of solving the mystery—and stopping the malevolent being that’s wiping out her shipmates. But first she has to keep herself alive.

The Last American Vampire

The Last American Vampire
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Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter-a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith. THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to…

 

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