DrBoots
DrBoots t1_ja8jdvb wrote
The first 3 Horus Heresy books are an amazing read. After that the HH series has it's peaks and valleys but never 100% meets the highest points of that first arc.
That being said if you liked Horus Heresy and are looking to get into more of the post heresy setting. I really enjoyed the Gaunt's Ghosts, and Ravenor books.
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.
DrBoots t1_ja9lblv wrote
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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.