Start With These
Six stories that show the range — from Culture ships failing inspections to craftsmen who grind lenses that let you see through someone else's eyes. Pick one. Any one.
A craftsman who builds devices that let people experience each other's realities takes a commission from a couple whose worlds have drifted apart.
A nine-year-old girl with a small psychic gift is taken by the Black Ships, numbered and shipped toward Terra with eleven other children she decides to protect.
A grot tallyman discovers that salvaged Culture technology responds to belief rather than engineering, and begins keeping a ledger that could upend Ork civilization.
A Culture ship disguised as an Imperial Rogue Trader vessel faces a customs inspection by the most meticulous auditor in the Segmentum Obscurus.
A Deathwatch kill-team, an Imperial colonel, and a Culture drone converge on an agri-world under Ork siege, each operating by a different calculus of what can be saved.
A Culture probe accidentally restores sight to a blind farmer on an Imperial agri-world, and the miracle draws the attention of forces that cannot let it stand.