22 Best science fiction books like Augur of Despair: Part 1 (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #5) by Chris Dows

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Augur of Despair: Part 1 (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #5)

By: Chris Dows

3.25

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

A Blackstone Fortress audio drama A pair of explorers discover a dangerous - and invaluable - ar…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Augur of Despair: Part 1 (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #5) by Chris Dows , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. I Am Slaughter (The Beast Arises #1)

By: Dan Abnett

3.75

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Book 1 of The Beast Arises A brand new Black Library event series begins! After a millennium of … read more

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"They’re so busy playing, they’ve taken their eyes off the board"

-Dan Abnett, I Am Slaughter (The Beast Arises #1)

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2. Nightbringer

By: Graham McNeill

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Newly promoted Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris is assigned to investigate Pavonis, an imperial p… read more

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3. 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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4. Battle for the Abyss

By: Ben Counter

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Now that news of Horus's treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have al… read more

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5. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls th… read more

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6. Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar

By: David Annandale

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Roboute Guilliman, the Battle King of Macragge, leads his Legion, the mighty Ultramarines, in conqu… read more

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7. Fear to Tread

By: James Swallow

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius - angelic primarch of the IXth Legion - wa… read more

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8. Deliverance Lost

By: Gav Thorpe

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

As the Horus Heresy divides the Imperium, Corax and his few remaining Raven Guard escape the massac… read more

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9. Angel Exterminatus

By: Graham McNeill

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Perturabo - master of siegecraft, and executioner of Olympia. Long has he lived in the shadow of hi… read more

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10. Nemesis

By: James Swallow

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

After the horrors of Istvaan V, Horus declares outright war against the Imperium. In the shadows of… read more

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11. 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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12. Scars

By: Chris Wraight

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jaghatai Khan and his White Scars Legion must choose - the Emperor or Horus? Fresh from their conqu… read more

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13. The Outcast Dead

By: Graham McNeill

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

The galaxy is burning. The Emperor's loyal primarchs prepare to do battle with Warmaster Horus and … read more

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14. The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1)

By: C.J. Archer

3.84

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. TH… read more

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15. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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16. Cadia Stands (Cadia #1)

By: Justin D. Hill

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The brutal war for Cadia is decided, as Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed and the armies of the Imperiu… read more

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17. 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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18. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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19. The Devastation of Baal (Space Marine Conquests #1)

By: Guy Haley

4.12

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Blood Angels Chapter and their successors mount a desperate defence of their home world of Baal… read more

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"Let the damned march with the damned!"

-Guy Haley, The Devastation of Baal (Space Marine Conquests #1)

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20. The Beast Inside (Blackstone Fortress)

By: Darius Hinks

3.06

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

A Warhammer Quest audio drama. Of all the horrors that lurk inside the Blackstone Fortress, perh… read more

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21. The Hollow Mountain (Vaults of Terra #2)

By: Chris Wraight

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Vaults of Terra Book 2 Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl and his acolyte Spinoza face new dangers as the … read more

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"There were so few real choices in the lives they all led, he reflected. Only different varieties of duty."

-Chris Wraight, The Hollow Mountain (Vaults of Terra #2)

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22. The Gate of Bones (Dawn of Fire #2)

By: Andy Clark

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Dawn of Fire Book 2 As the Indomitus Crusade spreads across the Imperium Sanctus, the cardinal w… read more

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23. Bloodlines (Warhammer Crime)

By: Chris Wraight

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A Warhammer Crime novel An investigation into a missing member of a wealthy family leads Probato… read more

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"That’s a common failing of women, isn’t it, probator? A man doesn’t try to change a woman – he accepts her or he rejects her. A woman thinks she can reform a man, and that’s why she gets hurt, becaus…"

-Chris Wraight, Bloodlines (Warhammer Crime)

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24. Blackstone Fortress (Blackstone Fortress #1)

By: Darius Hinks

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blackstone Fortress Book 1 When he discovers a prize that could change the face of the galaxy, d… read more

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25. Avenging Son (Dawn of Fire #1)

By: Guy Haley

3.97

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Dawn of Fire Book 1 As the Indomitus Crusade spreads out across the galaxy, one battlefleet must… read more

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"A good wall well defended is worth a thousand prayers."

-Guy Haley, Avenging Son (Dawn of Fire #1)

"A goos wall well defended is worth a thousand prayers."

-Guy Haley, Avenging Son (Dawn of Fire #1)

"All we have is life. It is the only thing that is ours."

-Guy Haley, Avenging Son (Dawn of Fire #1)

"There's always a first time. With death, it's also the last."

-Guy Haley, Avenging Son (Dawn of Fire #1)

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26. Realmslayer (Realmslayer #1)

By: David Guymer

4.04

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

A Gotrek Gurnisson audio drama boxed set The Slayer returns. Spat out of the Realm of Chaos afte… read more

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27. Cadian Honour (Cadia #2)

By: Justin D. Hill

3.81

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 2 of the Cadian series Sent to the capital world of Potence, Sergeant Minka Lesk and the Ca… read more

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28. Beastgrave (Warhammer Age of Sigmar)

By: C.L. Werner

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A Warhammer Underworlds novel In the untamed wilds of Ghur, darkness is rising. Rival warbands b… read more

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29. Dredge Runners (Warhammer Crime)

By: Alec Worley

4.12

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A Warhammer Crime Audio Drama Baggit the ratling and Clodde the ogryn fight to survive on the me… read more

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Cover of Augur of Despair: Part 1 (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #5) by Chris Dows

30. Augur of Despair: Part 1 (Black Library Advent Calendar 2019 #5)

By: Chris Dows

3.25

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

A Blackstone Fortress audio drama A pair of explorers discover a dangerous - and invaluable - ar… read more

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Cover of The Imprecations of Daemons (Warhammer Age of Sigmar) by Nick Kyme

31. The Imprecations of Daemons (Warhammer Age of Sigmar)

By: Nick Kyme

3.04

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

'My hand the hammer… my will the shield.' Summoned by grave tidings, the Stormcast Malleon retur… read more

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21 best-selling fiction books like Fear to Tread by James Swallow

Transform Your Habits

Horus Rising

Dan Abnett

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Fear to Tread

James Swallow

3.33

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Wraight

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Solar War (The Siege of Terra #1)

John French

4.03

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