My personal favorite would have to be 'Fall of Damnos'. It does a great job of exploring the new Necrons and their political schemings, while at the same time retaing that ancient unknown/Culthulu nature that drew me towards the old Necrons. It also has very interesting human PDF characters. Plus, the fact that the so called 'Favored Son of Ultramar' gets the Emperor loving crap kicked out of him is just icing on the cake.
Mine would have to be the Tome Of Fire trilogy by Nick Khyme I believe. (probably got his last name wrong) I'm still looking for the third book. I have the first two, autographed by the author mind you, in paperback. I just need the third, I still don't know how it ends. DON'T TELL ME!!!
Since you guys are all book readers I have two questions. 1. Tau are my boys. I wanted to start reading some of the Tau books but I don't know which ones are the best. I was think of The Greater Good or Fire Warrior to start. I don't care if the Tau aren't the main focus, as in they are the bad guys, I just want some cool Tau action. 2. My girlfriend loves to read and I'm trying to get her to enjoy 40k a little more. She thinks they Eldar are "neat" so I'm trying to find a good book she'd enjoy. I've been looking at the Eldar Omnibus but I've heard bad things about the book and Gav Thrope. I also know people are dramatic and a lot of times "worst author ever" is just a ton of hyperbole and the person writes fine. Thanks for the help!
I enjoyed both the Gav Thorpe and the Andy Chambers "Path of the ........" series so far As for Tau books I highly reccomend doing a quick search on the Black Library site to find availible titles,
While Thorpe is not the worst author ever there are severe criticisms which can be leveled at the Path of the Eldar series. They're good sources of lore in some respects, but have a few logical fallacies and problems with certain events. They're unfortunately not the best ones. Andy Chambers' work is vastly better but it focuses almost entirely upon the dark eldar. Also, avoid Eldar Prophecy like the plague. As for the tau, Fire Warrior is unfortunately the best of them. Shadowsun got a multitude of basic things very wrong about the race and Fire Caste was supposedly good, but that may have been in part despite the tau themselves. Sorry I cannot be of more help.
I'd figure it's a given that any form of literature based in 40K will contain lore inaccuracies, contain new "fluff", and will be largely dependant on a readers subjective like/dislike of any given authors writing style. It pretty much falls into the fan fiction categorary when attributing lore points, Eg: Canon (GW rulebooks/codexs) > Lore (GW fluff/backstory) > Fanfiction (GW approved/unapproved media by an author who doesnt work for GW directly)
Not really. It's a big enough galaxy to expand upon certain details without stepping on any toes and there is plenty of freedom between the established points of lore. Some of the more ambitious things like the Soul Drinkers series and First Heretic tend to bend rules but very rarely break them. Not to mention that these days the Black Library authors tend to have a much more healthy respect for the universe's established rules than certain rulebook authors and have been seen performing what is effectively damage control in the wake of certain lore. The specific points in question though are things like where an eldar is surprised that Imperial vessels are advanced enough to have void shields, despite ten thousand years worth of conflict between them.
Perhaps that individual Eldar simply hadn't seen them before, They dont all get out a lot you know, what with following the paths
