Eisenhorn (A Warhammer 40,000 Omnibus) Dan Abnett
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I've been told that Dan Abnett gets good–but Eisenhorn (I have the omnibus, so fuck what all the individual novels are called) was his first foray into novel writing, I believe, and I facepalmed so heard throughout all of them. This is my second year reading Black Library novels and I consider myself still very inexperienced in the 40k lore. Posted by Adam Whitehead at 11:39 · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. In the meantime I have been getting to see what Abnett has done with his own Inquisitor, Gregor Eisenhorn. Was his editor a * puts on 40k nerd hat* The Eisenhorn series was actually created specifically to roll out a new specialty game for Games Workshop called Inquisition and Abnett had to take a lot of input from GW to help it tie in better to the game. It wasn't until I got back to California that I realized Marc had recommended a three-volume series, albeit one sent to me as an omnibus edition. An epic with a strong, magnetic protagonist and a sense of scope and scale that have been rarely equaled in the 40K books I've read. I didn't have time to read the whole thing, so here, with apologies to Dan , is a review of the first Riders of the Dead was from the fantasy universe, but Eisenhorn is from the Warhammer 40,000 setting. The three stories in this omnibus tell the tale of Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his lethal band of operatives, whose investigations take them from the heart of the Scarus Sector to the wildest regions of space beyond, and even through time itself. I would not recommend this Ominbus as an introduction to the Universe of 40k however, unless the idea of the Inquisition is especially appealing to the reader. (Just discovered 'Hereticus' came out a decade ago. Wherever they go, and whatever dangers they face, they will .. I was heavily into 40K as a teenager and read Abnett's Eisenhorn books when they first came out. Prospect: a sci-fi epic comprising seven hundred and fifty pages of densely packed text in three novels and two linking short stories, set in the deep and almost impenetrable mythos of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k. The book is available as part of the Eisenhorn omnibus now in the UK and USA. The Founding follows the first steps of Following the journey of Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn (And later his apprentice, Gideon Ravenor), these novels seek to immerse you in the dark shadowy realms of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Summary: My recommended novel for those interested in war games, shows like Band of Brothers, etc., The Founding is the beginning omnibus for the well known Gaunt's Ghosts series. If you haven't, you should read the Eisenhorn Omnibus.