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7/5/2025, 4:37:30 AM
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>What other sources are there?
short answer basically anything that Rick Priestley read before making 40k Rogue Trader, and to a lesser extant anything that anyone else involved read too. Most famously Bryan Ansell with Michael Moorcock and Paradise Lost the depiction of Chaos.
https://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2014/06/acceptable-in-80s-first-warhammer-novels.html
>Rick Priestley: Michael Moorcock - of which there was a great deal about in the 70s! Robert E Howard - well specifically the Conan stories which were extended and added to by L Sprague de Camp. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Those are the most influential ones really - though there was a lot of fantasy about. Dune and 2000AD - well that's 40K really - to which you have to add Dr Who, Blakes 7, Star Trek, Star Wars and such like - Heavy Metal magazine had some good stuff in it in the day. James Branch Cabell - well that's very Bryan - if we're going down that route I'd put Lord Dunsany ahead of JBC - both very enjoyable but not really very Warhammer (though Dunsany Time and the Gods has some very Warhammerish/sub-Moorcock elements to it). I suspect Bored of the Rings was a bigger influence than any of the more cerebral fiction - nailed Halfings I think!
>What other sources are there?
short answer basically anything that Rick Priestley read before making 40k Rogue Trader, and to a lesser extant anything that anyone else involved read too. Most famously Bryan Ansell with Michael Moorcock and Paradise Lost the depiction of Chaos.
https://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.com/2014/06/acceptable-in-80s-first-warhammer-novels.html
>Rick Priestley: Michael Moorcock - of which there was a great deal about in the 70s! Robert E Howard - well specifically the Conan stories which were extended and added to by L Sprague de Camp. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. Those are the most influential ones really - though there was a lot of fantasy about. Dune and 2000AD - well that's 40K really - to which you have to add Dr Who, Blakes 7, Star Trek, Star Wars and such like - Heavy Metal magazine had some good stuff in it in the day. James Branch Cabell - well that's very Bryan - if we're going down that route I'd put Lord Dunsany ahead of JBC - both very enjoyable but not really very Warhammer (though Dunsany Time and the Gods has some very Warhammerish/sub-Moorcock elements to it). I suspect Bored of the Rings was a bigger influence than any of the more cerebral fiction - nailed Halfings I think!
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