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I read a bunch or Warhammer 40k books in the future there is only war.

The Black Company series of novels by Glen Cook. I'm a hard SF guy and normally avoid fantasy but I can not get enough of Glen Cook.

Hyperion series

Edit: and I can't really tell you what it's about, but it's relevant to today (at least allegorically) and it's widely regarded as one of the best recent sci-fi books

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Old Mans War - John Scalzi first of a series

The Horus Heresy. The series starts with Horus Rising. It is currently 53 something books long and is capped off with the siege of Terra series, which is 5 books atm and more on the way I believe. That's right. Its a series within a series, that's how fucking massive it is. I'm on book 52 and I will tell you its great. The most epic civil war story of all time in any universe. Nothing can compete with the HH in scale.

Its a mix of epic sci-fi with fantasy and even its own in-universe version of "magic" (not called magic clearly). It has a very mid-evil knights/Roman legions feel to it, but in space! It is heavily inspired by Lovecraft's ideas of space and horror and existential dread. It also pulls from basically every corner of the real world's lore and mythology for inspiration and flavor. Example the Space Wolves are fucking Vikings, and the Ultramarines are basically Rome, the White Scars are the Mongols, etc etc. There are even some amazing fanmade animations of events set during the HH.

Not for the faint of heart and contains spoilers.(It probably won't matter at all since you won't have any idea whats going on and by the time you get to these events you will have forgotten everything)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcuYA714Jw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhULhHCk_D8&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9wV2sGlXjY



Epic general Warhammer tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge5WC0LgRNM

Malazan tales of the fallen

I loved Timothy Zahns original star wars trilogy (no shit if you had made the heir to the empire trilogy into movies they wouldnt be in the shit place the are now)

Terry Pratchetts Discworld books are great too.

I really like the way Peter Hamilton writes except all his books end with "and then a big magic thing made everything OK."

The OP means Fantasy and Science Fiction and you all [Jooose] have spammed his entry with ZioNazi propaganda .. the golden age of SF came in short stories that appeared in the "pulpies" from about the 1930's on, start reading back issues of Analog Science Fiction, Astounding Science Fiction, and Amazing Stories and see which writers you prefer.

http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/Black_Destroyer.pdf ..

"Black Destroyer" by AE van Vogt remains a true classic of the genre, there are plenty of other great writers and superlative stories. Post 1964 the genre suffered decline with "Psi" stories leading the way, despite valiant rearguard actions from Kurt Vonnegut fr instance with The Sirens of Titan and material from a few other writers.

https://b.booksvooks.com/fullbook/sirens-of-titan-pdf-kurt-vonnegut-jr.html?page=9

Space opera a la Frank Herbert's "Dune" series and Doc Smith's "Lensman" series came to dominate the medium, while try as I might I was never able to come to terms with Michael Moorcock at any time, whereas when I gifted an Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" chronicle to a friend, she was so taken by it she finished with a truly prodigious library of ERB Mars titles .. each to his or her own I suppose.

If you are interested in books that detail a reality that borders on unbelievable but are true, try these 3 worthwhile books that are different from the false conventional historical belief taught in American schools as truth, yet all agree what the real truth is.

1st) "Freedom Betrayed" by ex-President Herbert Hoover. Hoover saw that the Roosevelt administration was strangely working hard to get American into an unnecessary war via USSR agents embedded into the US government and it was literally Hoover’s life's work to document it. Nothing was put into the book that was not double sourced, and he had a full time team working on gathering facts, reworking and re-editing the manuscript for years.

2nd) Operation Snow". Hoover focused on the betrayals that caused the war in Europe and China falling to the communists. He had suspected something like this occurred, but the facts did not come out until 1995 after the USSR fell and we got first hand accounts and documentation from Former Soviet NKVD agents that the USSR had a Jewish agent high up in the Roosevelt administration which the Russians had directed to get the US into war with Japan. That traitor, Harry Dexter White (original name Weiss) with a few other Soviet agents working in the US Government (in the early 50's there were over 20,000 US government workers fired for being "security risks") was wildly successful as he literally brought about Pearl Harbor and the millions of deaths and horrors that followed.

3rd) "The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II" by Viktor Suvorov. One of only 2 USSR GRU agents who defected to the west, Suvorov explains in minute and factual detail why Germany had to attack USSR as a defensive move. At the end you'll say: "Ahaahaha! THAT EXPLAINS IT!"

Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson

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