To sum up Gaunt’s Ghosts as quickly as possible: its pretty much Band of Brothers in the 40K setting. What it’s like to be a normal human being in a universe of superhuman space marines, vicious dark eldar, brutal orks, soulless and all-consuming tyranids, and the terrifying Chaos space marines? No author delivers this experience better than Dan Abnett. The layperson given a lasrifle and a helmet and sent into the meatgrinder with millions of others, creating a wall of mangled bodies between the people of the Imperium and all that would tear it down. It’s the Guard who truly put the horror and size of the future universe in perspective for the reader. To me, 40K has never been about the space marines. It covers a range of factions, from the puniest human to the most terrifying of traitor, and covers 10,000 years of Imperial history. The stories are fascinating and action-packed and the universe Games Workshop have created for their authors to play in mean that there is absolutely no end to the material and awesomesauce coming out of the Imperium and its many, many foes.īUT, if you’re only just coming across this unbelievable treasure trove of fiction, just where the bloody hell should you start?įear not! The team and I have put together a starter pack for you. They cover almost every kind of action and war sci-fi you could want, from mass trench warfare, to special ops, secret agents, void wars, superhuman soldiers and demigods battling aliens and demons. The Warhammer 40K universe books are legion.
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