The Twice-Dead King

Book cover of The Twice-Dead King: Ruin

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Peer into the into the bizarre culture and motivations of the Necrons in this great novel from Nate Crowley.

Exiled to the miserable world of Sedh, the disgraced necron lord Oltyx is consumed with bitterness. Once heir to the throne of a dynasty, he now commands nothing but a dwindling…

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1 author picked The Twice-Dead King as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Set Sytes

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The book that made me like robots. Okay, androids. Okay, Ancient-Egyptian-inspired hyper-advanced noble sapient beings biotransfered into soulless, dysphoric, flesh-phobic metal skeletons. To put it simply.

I loved the aesthetics of the book. Burnished silver, green, and black. Silver metal bodies with glowing emerald cores and burning “eyes”. Actinic green flashes of firing pylons and voidcraft in the night sky. A sacred tomb invaded by orks as scarab constructs and far worse things scuttle and crawl out from the shadows. An obsidian-black desert necropolis thick with obelisks and alight with gauss lamps.

Most of all, I loved how alien the…

From Set's 3 favorite reads in 2023.