20 Best 40k books like The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

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The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

4.22

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

While Horus' rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Impe…

"And in a sunless realm, the sun rose at last."

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

"The war is over, Diocletian. Win or lose, Horus has damned us all. Mankind will share in his ignorance until the last man or woman draws the species’ last breath. The warp will forever be a cancer in the heart of all humans. The Imperium may last a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten thousand. But it will fall, Diocletian. It will fall. The shining path is lost to us. Now we rage against the dying of the light."

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

If you liked the 40k plot in The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Carrion Throne

By: Chris Wraight

4.48

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Inquisitor Erasmus and his acolyte Spinoza root out a shadowy conspiracy on Holy Terra itself, the … read more

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  • 40k
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2. Dark Imperium

By: Guy Haley

3.67

Format: 350 pages,

A Warhammer 40,000 novel The galaxy has changed. Darkness spreads, warp storms split reality and Ch… read more

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3. Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy: Characters)

By: Chris Wraight

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Explore the history of one of the most well known heroes of the Imperium in this awesome new novel … read more

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"Knowledge is no crime." "In itself, no. But what is done with it, that can be."

-Chris Wraight, Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy: Characters)

"I lived , captain-general. It was short, and it was painful, but by the nine hells, I lived. I'd rather have it that way than yours - no joy, no hate, no fear. Unbreakable without growth, immortal wi…"

-Chris Wraight, Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy: Characters)

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4. The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)

By: John French

4.03

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 1 After years of devastating war, Horus and his forces have arrived at Terra… read more

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"Run... Run, father, and know that I'm coming. Run!" - Warmaster Horus"

-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)

"It is not often that we get to learn from the mistakes of the past." Rogal Dorn"

-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)

"At the root of your lies, is there any truth, father?’ The darkness becomes a forest, dark trunks reaching to an untouchable sky, roots crawling out and down into the abyss beneath. The man on the ch…"

-John French, The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)

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5. The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)

By: Robert Rath

4.46

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A Necrons novel Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are opposites. Each is obsessed with … read more

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"The sound of mechanized brutality that could only come from one species."

-Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine (Warhammer 40,000)

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6. The Lost and the Damned (The Siege of Terra #2)

By: Guy Haley

4.21

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 2 The Solar War is over. The Siege of Terra has begun. As the Traitors unlea… read more

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"Sometimes the best move in politics is to refuse the game in the first place."

-Guy Haley, The Lost and the Damned (The Siege of Terra #2)

"A rush into the jaws of death, snatched free, to plunge therein again at will,’ he said. ‘I greet death with a smile on my face."

-Guy Haley, The Lost and the Damned (The Siege of Terra #2)

"Let me put this another way, Myzmadra,’ he said. ‘You are alone, destitute and in danger. You are very far from home. The unification of humanity passes people like you by. You are the kind of person…"

-Guy Haley, The Lost and the Damned (The Siege of Terra #2)

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7. The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

By: Mike Brooks

4.42

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Lion. Son of the Emperor, brother of demigods and Primarch of the Dark Angels. Awakened. Return… read more

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  • 40k
  • fiction
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"I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all."

-Mike Brooks, The Lion: Son of the Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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8. Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work

By: Guy Haley

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An Adeptus Mechanicus novel In the wake of the Great Rift, Belisarius Cawl turns his attention t… read more

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"Your technology may look more advanced than mine, but I have the Machine-God on my side."

-Guy Haley, Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work

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9. The First Wall (The Siege of Terra #3)

By: Gav Thorpe

3.76

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 3 The outer defences have fallen, but the walls of the Imperial Palace stand… read more

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"To know is to be tempted."

-Gav Thorpe, The First Wall (The Siege of Terra #3)

"Glory is an empty plate to feed from."

-Gav Thorpe, The First Wall (The Siege of Terra #3)

"When one has no power, one will seek hope from any source."

-Gav Thorpe, The First Wall (The Siege of Terra #3)

"Trust is a commodity that comes and goes, my dearest friend. Faith is eternal."

-Gav Thorpe, The First Wall (The Siege of Terra #3)

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10. Saturnine (The Siege of Terra #4)

By: Dan Abnett

4.57

Format: 553 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 4 As the traitors tighten their grip on Terra, Rogal Dorn must marshal the I… read more

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"We must find our friends where we can, and make those bonds count."

-Dan Abnett, Saturnine (The Siege of Terra #4)

"Anything that is easy enough to understand is not powerful enough to be worshipped."

-Dan Abnett, Saturnine (The Siege of Terra #4)

"Only a fool ignores the advice of a brilliant man. Oy an idiot denies the good practice of an enemy."

-Dan Abnett, Saturnine (The Siege of Terra #4)

"You don’t find the things you’re looking for if you don’t break some rules. You have to walk in a few dark places on your own."

-Dan Abnett, Saturnine (The Siege of Terra #4)

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11. Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)

By: John French

3.60

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 5 After a series of victories, the Imperial forces are on the back foot once… read more

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"The truth is a weapon and a shield.’ - Primarch Sanguinius"

-John French, Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)

"Victory is not fate. It is an act of will.' Primarch Rogal Dorn"

-John French, Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)

"The wheel turns. In the end we all return to what we are and to where we began."

-John French, Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)

"Poetry begins with the talking,’ Yesugei had said. ‘And talking is the shadow of the spirit within."

-John French, Mortis (The Siege of Terra #5)

Cover of The End and the Death: Volume I (The Siege of Terra #8) by Dan Abnett

12. The End and the Death: Volume I (The Siege of Terra #8)

By: Dan Abnett

4.43

Format: 659 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 1 The arch-traitor Horus Lupercal's forces have bombarded Terra and … read more

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Cover of The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra) by Dan Abnett

13. The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

By: Dan Abnett

4.48

Format: 507 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 3 It all comes down to this final confrontation – the Emperor versus… read more

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"And in the end. It's just a man killing his son with a stone...then the galaxy burns"

-Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

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14. The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra)

By: Dan Abnett

4.15

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 8, Part 2 Volume II picks up right where the first left off, with cataclysmi… read more

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15. Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs, #12)

By: Guy Haley

4.23

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A Horus Heresy: Primarchs novel Few among the legendary primarchs are as feared as Konrad Curze,… read more

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"There can be no justice without fear, no fear without suffering."

-Guy Haley, Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs, #12)

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16. The Emperor's Legion (Watchers of the Throne #1)

By: Chris Wraight

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Book 1 in the Watchers of the Throne series The Adeptus Custodes are the Emperor's praetorian gu… read more

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"That's the great danger that condemns us - not daemon blades, but dumb ignorance. We've become a stupid race, glorying in the easy goals of anger and piety."

-Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion (Watchers of the Throne #1)

"Say you release the Custodians from their vigil here. They say there are ten thousand of them. The enemy numbers in the billions. A lion is a poor hunter to set against so many jackals."

-Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion (Watchers of the Throne #1)

"Even now, hard against the End of Time, when the death rattle of our species has become audible even to the thick-eared, they still grasp for a little more of the things we have always desired - coin…"

-Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion (Watchers of the Throne #1)

"The warp was the source of so much anguish for us, and yet its absence generated the greatest abhorrence of all. I suppose that is the tragedy of our kind- we are as moths to the candle, bound inextr…"

-Chris Wraight, The Emperor's Legion (Watchers of the Throne #1)

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17. The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

4.22

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

While Horus' rebellion burns across the galaxy, a very different kind of war rages beneath the Impe… read more

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"And in a sunless realm, the sun rose at last."

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

"The war is over, Diocletian. Win or lose, Horus has damned us all. Mankind will share in his ignorance until the last man or woman draws the species’ last breath. The warp will forever be a cancer in…"

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind (The Horus Heresy, #41)

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18. Warhawk (The Siege of Terra #6)

By: Chris Wraight

4.33

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 6 With the Lion's Gate space port taken by the enemy, Jaghatai Khan of the W… read more

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"Those who demand veneration are never really worth it, in my experience."

-Chris Wraight, Warhawk (The Siege of Terra #6)

"The traveller is the one who takes his truth with him into strange lands. The moment he forgets his truth, he ceases to be a traveller, and becomes the strange land."

-Chris Wraight, Warhawk (The Siege of Terra #6)

"Oll had learned the hard way that those who seemed most clearly in control of things were often the ones with the shakiest grip. Except for Him, of course. He’d always known exactly where He was goin…"

-Chris Wraight, Warhawk (The Siege of Terra #6)

"What can we really do for this Imperium? Can we sustain it now, bearing its weight on our shoulders? Not the way we were made. But we can kill for it. We can break, we can burn, we can unmake. We hav…"

-Chris Wraight, Warhawk (The Siege of Terra #6)

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19. Garro: Knight of Grey (The Siege of Terra)

By: James Swallow

4.01

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A Siege of Terra Novella Nathaniel Garro, the loyalist who betrayed his father Mortarion to warn… read more

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"There must come a moment when the soul knows: this far, and no further. But we are cursed never to hear that warning until it is too late.’ – attributed to the remembrancer Ignace Karkasy [M31]"

-James Swallow, Garro: Knight of Grey (The Siege of Terra)

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20. Sons of the Selenar (The Siege of Terra)

By: Graham McNeill

3.92

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

A Siege of Terra novella The Shattered Legions have come to Terra – but when the Kryptos deliver… read more

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21. Fury of Magnus (The Siege of Terra)

By: Graham McNeill

4.22

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A Siege of Terra novella In the midst of the Siege of Terra, Magnus the Red embarks on a very pe… read more

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"When you are strong, appear weak". The first warmaster"

-Graham McNeill, Fury of Magnus (The Siege of Terra)

"How bright we all bur. No wonder we were not made to last."

-Graham McNeill, Fury of Magnus (The Siege of Terra)

"The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tini…"

-Graham McNeill, Fury of Magnus (The Siege of Terra)

"You mean to topple whoever finally claims Terra's throne and take it for yourself." "Who among my brothers is as remotely suited as I for such a position? Horus is already so rank with stolen powers …"

-Graham McNeill, Fury of Magnus (The Siege of Terra)

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