Necrons

Robert Rath

A characterful xenos standalone about two ancient rivals whose feud crosses absurd spans of history.

Gav Thorpe

A modern-era novel that puts Space Marines and Necrons into the Indomitus Crusade frame, giving the map another early-M42 anchor.

Guy Haley

The ninth and concluding Dawn of Fire novel brings the long Indomitus storyline to its climax, with Guy Haley returning to wrap up the cast and plot threads built across the series. As its title signals, the awakened Necron Silent King looms over the Imperium's struggle, drawing the great crusade arc to a head.

Graham McNeill

The debut Ultramarines novel introduces Captain Uriel Ventris of the Fourth Company, deployed to a politically fractured world where Imperial rivalries mask a far deadlier, ancient menace stirring beneath the surface. A classic, accessible entry point into Space Marine fiction that establishes Ventris as a hero willing to bend the rigid Codex Astartes.

Nate Crowley

A novella by Nate Crowley centred on the Necron nobles Nemesor Zahndrekh and his loyal Vargard Obyron, whose strange dynamic blends battlefield brilliance with the tragedy of fractured, malfunctioning memory. Dispatched to put down a rebellion in the Ghoul Stars, the pair confront questions of identity and what it means to still be alive after the flesh is gone, offering an unusually intimate and darkly funny take on the Necrons.

Nate Crowley

The first novel in Nate Crowley's duology told entirely from the Necrons' perspective, following an exiled noblescion of a fading dynasty as his crownworld faces threats from within and without. It is a rare character-driven look at Necron politics, ambition, and the slow horror of immortality, widely praised for humanizing one of the setting's most alien factions.

Nate Crowley

The concluding half of Nate Crowley's Necron duology, continuing the story of the exiled noble Oltyx as the fate of his dynasty hangs in the balance. It deepens the exploration of Necron society, memory, and obligation, and is considered one of the strongest pieces of pure xenos fiction Black Library has published.

Guy Haley

A modern-era Mechanicus novel centered on Belisarius Cawl, useful for readers who want the technological and political edge of the post-Rift Imperium.

Steve Parker

A standalone Imperial Guard novel centered on the Cadian armoured regiments and their Leman Russ tank crews fighting a grinding war against a Necron threat. It focuses on the men and machines of the Guard's tank companies, delivering a tank-warfare-heavy entry in the setting.

Steve Lyons

A bleak Death Korps of Krieg story that contrasts Imperial attrition warfare with an implacable xenos threat, best for readers who want the Guard at its harshest.

James Swallow

A force of Battle Sisters is dispatched to restore a long-lost shrine world, only to uncover an ancient menace stirring beneath its ruins. As the threat reveals itself, the Sisters must hold the line in a desperate defence that tests their faith and resolve to the breaking point. The novel continues the story begun in Faith and Fire with the same uncompromising heroine.

Nick Kyme

The Ultramarines race to defend the world of Damnos when an ancient Necron tomb awakens beneath its surface and unleashes a relentless, soulless legion. Captain Cato Sicarius leads the defence against an enemy that cannot be reasoned with or truly destroyed, in a campaign that becomes a brutal war of attrition. A bleak account of one of the Ultramarines' most costly defeats.

John French

The Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman finally lays hands on the ancient Necron device he believes can rewrite his Legion's doom and undo the curse of the Rubric. Betrayal at the moment of triumph strands him in a strange limbo beyond ordinary space and time, forcing him to fight through surreal warp-touched landscapes. The fifth Ahriman book caps his long, tragic quest for redemption with arcane confrontation and introspection.

Gav Thorpe

A companion piece in the Rise of the Ynnari, this novel centres on the Wild Lord Nuadhu Fireheart of Saim-Hann, who accidentally rouses a slumbering necron tomb. Hoping to redeem his honour by crushing the awakening machines before they fully stir, he seeks an uneasy alliance with Yvraine's Ynnari.

David Guymer

A young Iron Hands Scout chafes against his Chapter's rigid doctrine that the flesh is weak and the machine supreme, while an ancient relic and a brewing threat test his beliefs. The book digs into the brutal Iron Fathers, their cult of the machine, and what it costs to belong. First of a duology centred on the warrior Kardan Stronos.

David Guymer

The sequel follows the Iron Hands as a delegate from Mars arrives to scrutinize the Chapter, straining its fierce independence and its relationship with the Mechanicus. Kardan Stronos rises in stature amid escalating threats and internal conflict over the Chapter's soul. Concludes the duology that began with The Eye of Medusa.

Ben Counter

A colossal, seemingly indestructible necron construct carves a path of annihilation across an Imperial sector, shattering every fleet sent against it. The Astral Knights Chapter stake their entire existence on a desperate boarding assault, crashing onto the moving world to strike at its heart and end the threat at any cost.

Jonathan D. Beer

Beneath the sands of a dead world, the undying legions of a Necron tomb stir to reclaim a galaxy they ruled before mankind. A cold, alien story told from the perspective of the deathless.