16 Best fantasy books like Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy: Characters) by Chris Wraight

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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 …

"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 without passion." - Primarch Ushotan"

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

If you liked the fantasy plot in Valdor: Birth of the Imperium (The Horus Heresy: Characters) by Chris Wraight , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Know No Fear

By: Dan Abnett

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster's increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guil… read more

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2. 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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3. 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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4. Betrayer

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

3.87

Format: 252 pages, ebook

The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron's surprise attack on Cal… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Cypher: Lord of the Fallen (Warhammer 40,000)

By: John French

4.02

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A Warhammer 40,000 Novel Cypher has slipped his bonds on Holy Terra itself. Hunted by some of th… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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"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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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)

Cover of Plague War (Dark Imperium #2) by Guy Haley

13. Plague War (Dark Imperium #2)

By: Guy Haley

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Intent on rebuilding Ultramar, the returned primarch Roboute Guilliman wages war on the treacherous… read more

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"Kul'Gath was closely associated with the divine. He knew no god could avoid mistakes entirely."

-Guy Haley, Plague War (Dark Imperium #2)

"Rejoice, for I bring you glorious news. God walks among us. So ran the first two lines of the Lectitio Divinitatus."

-Guy Haley, Plague War (Dark Imperium #2)

"The girl's abilities are subdued by hexagrammatic chains. She is blanked by Obsidian Knight Voi. If she were a vessel of the Emperor's will, neither of these things would affect her."

-Guy Haley, Plague War (Dark Imperium #2)

"They said the Emperor protects, but most of the laity misunderstood the saying. They assumed the Emperor would protect them personally, but the Emperor's role was to safeguard the species. A single m…"

-Guy Haley, Plague War (Dark Imperium #2)

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14. 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)

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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs, #14)

By: Mike Brooks

4.47

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

A Primarchs novel Who better to relate the tale of Alpharius than the primarch himself? As he te… read more

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"Allies on whom you could not rely were sometimes worse than no allies at all."

-Mike Brooks, Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs, #14)

"Striving for perfection is not foolish, but assuming you have achieved it most certainly is."

-Mike Brooks, Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs, #14)

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19. 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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20. Echoes of Eternity (The Siege of Terra #7)

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

4.52

Format: 522 pages, Hardcover

Siege of Terra Book 7 With the walls of the Imperial Palace in ruins and the end in sight, Sangu… read more

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"The concept of luck flew in the face of the Omnissiah’s divine plan and was therefore a falsehood."

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes of Eternity (The Siege of Terra #7)

"There it was again, the treasonous little notion Ulienne couldn’t quite shake. Horus was a hero, the Warmaster of the Imperium, the pacifier of the galaxy. Of course she’d followed him. The Legio Aud…"

-Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes of Eternity (The Siege of Terra #7)

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21. 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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