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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think some of them are pretty good! My favorites are the Ciaphas Cain series and Eisenhorn series. Gaunts Ghosts is also good if you want a more serious military read. If you want non-humans, check out "The Infinite and the Divine". It's about necrons (highly advanced ancient space robots/terminators).

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