Series
Ultramarines
Graham McNeill, Dan Abnett, David Annandale, Nick Kyme & Nik Vincent · 9 novels · 3 novelettes · 7 short stories · 2001–2021
The Ultramarines novels, primarily by Graham McNeill with contributions from other Black Library authors, follow Captain Uriel Ventris and his company of the Ultramarines Space Marine chapter in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 setting, opening with Nightbringer's confrontation with an ancient, star-devouring necron entity. The series follows Ventris through exile and redemption across a war-torn galaxy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Iron Snakes(3 works)
- Uriel Ventris(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Ultramarines at the centre, 2 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
- 2000s10
- 2010s8
- 2020s1
Shape
9 novels · 3 novelettes · 7 short stories
5 authors
reads like:military science fictionother star systemsfar futureadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Nightbringerdarkest · calmest
- Knights of Macraggebrightest · most intense