Focus Entertainment announced it has begun development on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 alongside Games Workshop and Saber Interactive.This Substack is reader-supported.
My son plays Space Marine 2 and I watch. I think it’s pretty great. Great graphics. Interesting story. It seems really well done. He’s really getting into the lore now on YouTube. Now I need to find the better books for him. Stuff with no woke bullshit. So, probably older books.
There are too many books to pick just a few - actually there are entire series, sometimes separated by millennia. It depends if you would like to start with the "current" setting (41st millennium) or go back to 30k (Horus Heresy). I think the safer bet is to check recommended authors, each usually has quite a few 40k books under the belt.
Avoid Nick Kyme and Mike Brooks like a plague. Both are turning their books into woke garbage and trying to push their propaganda into the setting. Stay away. Unfortunately, Kyme is GW's editor (chief editor, I think), which gives him the power to insert his books and his talentless writing riddled with woke propaganda into already ongoing series and ruin them. He's done it recently with the Dawn of Fire series.
My personal favourites are Steve Lyons and Guy Haley. Dembski-Bowden is also a very good bet, Abnett is a community favourite (I personally consider him good, but a bit overrated) - these are probably the top 40k writers at the moment.
Marc Collins and Gav Thorpe are ok, but a bit more of a hit and miss. And then there are several others that I don't know much about. As an exception to the above, I would recommend getting the Yarrick omnibus series, it's about one of the most iconic 40k characters and well worth a read. Most people recommend the Eisenhorn books as a good entry point - personally I find them good, but not excellent. They are also a bit dated (written in early 2000s) and many things and concepts in 40k are now presented differently and usually in a noticeably darker tone. There are some YT videos with several recommended entry points to the 40k books, so those might be worth checking out.
Edit: another excellent series (a trilogy, actually), are Guy Haley's Dark Imperium books. One of the best published (relatively) recently.
Nope!!!!!
Space Marine 2 had a Trănny as the Lead Writer at one point, and they kept him on for YEARS before he left.
The SAME people who hired him are still at Saber, as well as his "allies".
So this will likely be a slight Rug Pull, where the Fans feel the Rug moving, but it won't be until Space Marine 4 that it's pulled completely......
The emperor provides.
Still not giving Games Workshop any money.
I reject all Woke Hammer.
My son plays Space Marine 2 and I watch. I think it’s pretty great. Great graphics. Interesting story. It seems really well done. He’s really getting into the lore now on YouTube. Now I need to find the better books for him. Stuff with no woke bullshit. So, probably older books.
There are too many books to pick just a few - actually there are entire series, sometimes separated by millennia. It depends if you would like to start with the "current" setting (41st millennium) or go back to 30k (Horus Heresy). I think the safer bet is to check recommended authors, each usually has quite a few 40k books under the belt.
Avoid Nick Kyme and Mike Brooks like a plague. Both are turning their books into woke garbage and trying to push their propaganda into the setting. Stay away. Unfortunately, Kyme is GW's editor (chief editor, I think), which gives him the power to insert his books and his talentless writing riddled with woke propaganda into already ongoing series and ruin them. He's done it recently with the Dawn of Fire series.
My personal favourites are Steve Lyons and Guy Haley. Dembski-Bowden is also a very good bet, Abnett is a community favourite (I personally consider him good, but a bit overrated) - these are probably the top 40k writers at the moment.
Marc Collins and Gav Thorpe are ok, but a bit more of a hit and miss. And then there are several others that I don't know much about. As an exception to the above, I would recommend getting the Yarrick omnibus series, it's about one of the most iconic 40k characters and well worth a read. Most people recommend the Eisenhorn books as a good entry point - personally I find them good, but not excellent. They are also a bit dated (written in early 2000s) and many things and concepts in 40k are now presented differently and usually in a noticeably darker tone. There are some YT videos with several recommended entry points to the 40k books, so those might be worth checking out.
Edit: another excellent series (a trilogy, actually), are Guy Haley's Dark Imperium books. One of the best published (relatively) recently.
Thank you SO MUCH!