Series
Sabbat Worlds Crusade
Dan Abnett, Nik Vincent, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Matthew Farrer, Nick Kyme, Alex Stewart, David Annandale, Graham McNeill, John French & Rob Sanders · 17 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 20 short stories · 3 anthologies · 1998–2022
Set within Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts corner of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, these Black Library anthologies (Double Eagle, Sabbat Worlds, Sabbat War) gather multi-author short fiction depicting the wider Sabbat Worlds Crusade - a decades-long Imperial Guard campaign to reclaim a sector of the galaxy - from perspectives beyond Gaunt's own regiment. Contributors including Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, and Graham McNeill each cover different fronts and formations caught up in the same grinding, attritional war. It is tie-in military science fiction meant to widen the crusade's scope rather than continue a single protagonist's story.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(5 editions)
Map
Sabbat Worlds Crusade at the centre, 5 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s4
- 2000s15
- 2010s26
- 2020s2
Shape
17 novels · 2 novellas · 5 novelettes · 20 short stories · 3 anthologies
10 authors
reads like:military science fictionwarother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 95% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book22 of 47 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Blood Pactdarkest · calmest
- The Guns of Tanithbrightest · most intense