I’m still very much a normie with 40k but I want to get into the lore before the show comes out. Unfortunately it’s not like LOTR, Wheel of Time, Ice and Fire, etc where I can buy a series of books and start on book one. I’ll see what books are a good starting point and I’m sure there are some YouTubers that can give lore insight that I can listen to on my walks. I have like 40 books to read in my immediate stack so I’ll hold off on any of the books until I can knock those out.
With the show coming I’m wondering if the usual suspects have tried to latch onto the IP or have the fans gate kept it pretty well?
The fans gate kept it until fairly recently, the left has their hooks in now and they're busily gaslighting away. As for an introduction to the lore, I suggest the Horus Heresy books (Gaunt's Ghosts is also pretty good), and avoiding anything written by that tricycle bound alcoholic midget CS Goto.
Thanks!! I still need to read the Witcher and Elric books. Then I’ll dive into those. Are they using the usual tactics of whining about lack of diversity, females, or lgbt?
They're presently running with the "it was always woke" gaslighting. As if people who have been playing it for thirty years, like me, don't remember exactly what the game was back then.
Oh and I don't know if he wrote any of the novels but avoid anything by Gav Thorpe. He's a pencil-dicked weasel who was the first big entryist in the IP, and the proximate cause for a lot of the bullshit in the game today.
Thanks for the heads up
No problem. 40k is a lot like Star Wars (used to be). It's been around long enough and there's just so much of it, that you have to be careful not to step on a proverbial landmine. But if you can get into it there's a lot of rich and enjoyable content.