PregnancyRoulette OP t1_ja8vh6x wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:31 PM

Reply to comment by DrBoots in Warhammer: I'm surprised how good it is. by PregnancyRoulette

>Not for nothing, but the Caiaphas Cain books are a lot of fun as well. Probably the closest Warhammer 40K gets to being an intentional comedy.

Like Robert Asprin, or Terry Pratchett?

DrBoots t1_ja9lblv wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:13 PM

Pratchett might be the closest of the two. In tone more than style.

Basically the Ciaphas Cain books focus on a high ranking officer in the Imperial military (The titular Caiaphas Cain.)

Unlike the majority of Warhammer 40K heroes. He's a coward and a scoundrel who spends most of his military deployment trying to find a place to hide from all the horrors of the galaxy that are trying to kill him. In doing so he ends up falling ass-backwards into greater and greater victories just by sheer dumb luck. Which just puts him in greater peril as he's mistaken for a military genius and a hero.