The main problem that a lot of people will have, when they first pick this up, is comprehending the shared world in which this novel (and the two others that follow) exist. Eisenhorn’s hunt to discover the truth underneath the conspiracy leads him to new friends, new enemies – and the discovery of a secret that will alter the course of the rest of his life. However, the mission goes awry, revealing that this criminal may be linked to a far larger conspiracy involving a noble family from another planet in the same area. At the beginning of the novel he and his team are on the planet Hubris, where they have finally tracked down and cornered a wanted heretic whom Eisenhorn has been hunting for years. The premise of Xenos is thus: Gregor Eisenhorn is an Inquisitor of the Imperium of Man, and together with a small group of people with whom he has worked for years, he is tasked with rooting out heresy wherever he finds it in any of the Imperium’s territories. Thinking that there really was nothing I had to lose, I started on it with the first book, Xenos.Īnd I do believe I have finally, finally found something about the Warhammer 40K universe to enjoy, because this first book did very well in sucking me in and not letting go. I talked to Steven again about my wavering interest, and he suggested that I read the Eisenhorn Trilogy.
This is not to say that The Horus Heresy books aren’t good they are, to a degree, but I found myself getting impatient with them. I read the first two books, then skipped to one of the later ones, and have since temporarily given up.
A DARKHUNT NOVEL SERIES
I started trying to figure my own way around the many, many potential books, and at first I decided to start at the very beginning: The Horus Heresy – which also happened to be the longest-running (and still running) series in the entire shared universe. I like Steven, and so I took his enthusiastic recommendation as an endorsement of the series. Since I read and enjoyed Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga books, though, he claimed that getting in the Warhammer 40k books wouldn’t be too hard at all.
He claimed there was something for everyone in them, though they were primarily military sci-fi. This was indeed the case: Steven, Hope and I share a lot of interests, particularly in the kind of books we read – which was why he encouraged me to pick up the Warhammer 40K books. Hope introduced him to me at the first Homestuck Philippines meet-up I ever attended, having already befriended him and knowing I’d get along with him. This is precisely what I have done very often before, since I have no knowledge of the shared universe in which these books are written, and I haven’t been curious enough about them to figure out where to even begin.īut then I met Steven.
I suppose we have all seen them: those stacks and stacks of Warhammer 40,000 books in the bookstore, oftentimes with some pretty interesting covers – enough to briefly grab and hold one’s attention into looking at it for a while before, most likely, moving on.
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