HeritorA Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 It is really interesting to see what everyone's hook was! It seems strange to me as someone who read White Dwarf and knew the background to think of the HH as a person's entrance to the world. In a way I am quite envious of starting on the journey blind and having no knowledge of what is to happen! An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin_cse Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Horus Rising shortly after finding out how awesome the setting is after playing Dawn of War. Somehow I think I still had some knowledge of the setting before that though, probably just secondary exposure from reading about video games and probably reading on wikipedia. From there I went to the Eisenhorn series and then the Ultramarine omnibus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Horus Rising shortly after finding out how awesome the setting is after playing Dawn of War. Somehow I think I still had some knowledge of the setting before that though, probably just secondary exposure from reading about video games and probably reading on wikipedia. From there I went to the Eisenhorn series and then the Ultramarine omnibus. Ahh naive youth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxdeluxe Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Mine was either krokodil tears or Genevieve. Dark future was such a kick ass setting. I seem to remember reading zaragoz and the Konrad books around that time. Then I had a big break from the hobby and got back into it by reading gotrek and felix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 krokodil tears or Genevieve. - LOLS. Well done to remember old classic that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluxdeluxe Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Seriously I was about 10 or 11 that whole alternative history concept was mind blowing back then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Seriously I was about 10 or 11 that whole alternative history concept was mind blowing back then! As I said before naive youth. And then it all went Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hammerers of Ulric. Still love that story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Hammerers of Ulric. Still love that story Good one. Prefer 'Riders of the Dead' over it through. And what was your W40K first novel, in case I missed your earlier answer? So much good old classic remembered here. I so miss old WFB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Dawnstar Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Either Titanicus or Sacred Flesh, the second book of the Angelika Fleischer trilogy. I have a feeling that it was the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Either Titanicus or Sacred Flesh, the second book of the Angelika Fleischer trilogy. I have a feeling that it was the latter. A newcomer? Titanicus has been released not that long ago :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Dawnstar Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Nah, I've been playing since 3rd Edition. I think it must have been Sacred Flesh seeing as it was released a good four years before Titanicus - you made me look that up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Hammerers of Ulric. Still love that story Good one. Prefer 'Riders of the Dead' over it through.And what was your W40K first novel, in case I missed your earlier answer? So much good old classic remembered here. I so miss old WFB Either the first of King's Ragnar series or Ghostmaker. Both were read so close to each other and so long ago it's a bit blurry which came first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Hammerers of Ulric. Still love that story Good one. Prefer 'Riders of the Dead' over it through.And what was your W40K first novel, in case I missed your earlier answer? So much good old classic remembered here. I so miss old WFB Either the first of King's Ragnar series or Ghostmaker. Both were read so close to each other and so long ago it's a bit blurry which came first. You mean 'First and only'? 'Ghostmaker' is a second GG book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 No, I meant Ghostmaker. I started the series out of order, as I only played Fantasy when I first started so didnt know crap about the setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 No, I meant Ghostmaker. I started the series out of order, as I only played Fantasy when I first started so didnt know crap about the setting. Ahhh, that happens :) Anyway - you read the first book after that anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Did anyone start with Inferno Magazine? Some great content in those old collections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 While I didn't start with it, I still have most of the Inferno magazine run. Great mags. I even had a few Citadel Journals in the day, which also carried the occasional short story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Horus Rising...great way to get hooked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_F_D Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Yeh I think they count, I mean technically I read White Dwarf first so was then almost certainly exposed to Inferno! and Warhammer Monthly. I loved, and still do, the backgrounds created in the 90s which, when I return to, I see were written by many of the writers we still talk about today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Horus Rising...great way to get hooked To the one who hasn't known anything about the lore :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_F_D Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Horus Rising...great way to get hooked To the one who hasn't known anything about the lore I really don't think that is true at all. I think the HH was/is a fantastic series in allowing people who know the basic tenets to explore it further. The series is 11 years old now but I for one still retain a sense of excitement at finding out the foundations of the setting I fell in love with as a kid, first as the models and then with fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritorA Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Horus Rising...great way to get hooked To the one who hasn't known anything about the lore I really don't think that is true at all. I think the HH was/is a fantastic series in allowing people who know the basic tenets to explore it further. The series is 11 years old now but I for one still retain a sense of excitement at finding out the foundations of the setting I fell in love with as a kid, first as the models and then with fiction. Of course. It was partly sarcasm :) Anyway those who 'knew' the lore will get absolutely different opinion and flavour than the ones who does not know it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khornflakes Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I'd read White Dwarf when much younger and old recently got back into the whole thing. For some reason which i can't recall now, the first book i read was The First Heretic. then decided, while it was a good read, i didn't have a clue what was going on so better go to the start and got Horus Rising shortly afterwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirbeau Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I was around before the black library was founded, I think the first thing I read by them wasn't actually a book but inferno magazine, which was often brilliant. Still remember a few of the stories now, especially Jonathan Green's Hounds of Winter in the first (well, 0) issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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