The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus

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This omnibus edition of the first three books in the series shows us Gaunt at various points: in childhood, in training as a Commissar, as part of another regiment, whilst raising the Ghosts as a regiment, and in the aftermath, as they and he work together to, if not save the universe at ;east try to prevent it getting any worse. An incredible blend of grim dark, sci-fi, fantasy, and military story components all melded together. The problem, other than the creaky structure, is that I don’t find the short stories good at achieving their purpose.

Gaunt's Ghosts is a series of military science fiction novels by Dan Abnett, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Gaunt is deployed to another section of the step-city and attached to a regiment from Fortis Binary, accompanied by Ludd and Eszrah Night. But before anyone tells me, I'm already well aware at least the next two omnibuses are considered to be even better!The original short pieces subsequently appeared as flashback-chapters in Ghostmaker, the second book. The author, Dan Abnett, darling of the Black Library, was wise not to include any comical Ork speech, allowing them to be perceived as genuinely threatening (and getting me to look up 'how big is an Ork'* - and finding myself, like all the other times the book got me looking things up I wanted to know more about, down quite a rabbit hole). I do think it's very clear what Abnett was doing here, it's not subtle, but neither does he beat you over the head about it. A book that covers a battle long lost against the past while facing chaos forces in the Sabbat worlds.

The Founding gathers together the first three novels and one short story in the Gaunt's Ghosts series.Realised I have no desire at all to read the third book in this omnibus - maybe at some, much, later date. Ibram Gaunt – now serving at the right hand of Warmaster Macaroth – finds himself at the very heart of the struggle. Viewed as homeless, barbaric and useless, this band is the underdog, striving through each war to win a new planet for themselves, usually undercut by dirty handed politics. First and Only is the first novel in the series (and, in fact, was Abnett's first published novel), introducing Gaunt, his regiment, and the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.