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Discover the last battles leading to the Siege of Terra Taking matters into his own hands, Malcador the Sigillite seeks to put a stop to any insurrection but discovers a plot that he will need all of his cunning and battle-craft to overcome. Book four in the New York Times bestselling series. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp.

Can Garro and his men survive the depredations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time? This is a reissue of Knight Errant. Agentia Primus. Nathaniel Garro's journey through the Horus Heresy has been long and hard - this is his story. From out of the shadows of the Silent War, a new hero emerges. Clad all in grey, an errant warrior of the Legiones Astartes kneels before the Regent of Terra and accepts a solemn new duty — Battle-Captain Garro, once commander of the Eisenstein, is now Agentia Primus of Malcador the Sigillite.

From the desolation of Isstvan to the halls of the Imperial Palace itself, Garro stands as a paragon of loyalty and protector of the innocent, ever ready to strike back at the traitorous allies of the Warmaster. But he is walking a dangerous path of his own, one that may lead him to question his place in the Imperium Book 52 of the much loved and hugely popular Horus Heresy series. The Warmaster Horus has triumphed. His massive fleet at last nears Terra and the patriarchal Throne of his hated father.

Ferrus is a zealot who gives no fucks about anything beyond conquering systems in the name of the Emprah and being the best there is at what he does. In fact, he was just as obsessed with perfection as Fulgrim, which is why they got along so well. He's also got a lot of built-up resentment toward Dorn, since Dorn once called him a dumbass on the bridge of his own flagship in front of a bunch of his sons.

He doesn't seem to like Guilliman very much either at this point, probably because the G-man encouraged restraint when dealing with noncompliant planets and Ferrus just wanted to smash everything and let someone else pick up the pieces. Basically a recap of some of the White Scars' more important pre-Heresy campaigns, including conquering the Nephilim homeworld and killing a shitload of Orks on a planet made of psychically resonant crystals.

The main thing the book does is confirm that Jaghatai was always meant to be a wild card. More importantly, it shows that while he didn't really agree with the Emperor about anything, especially the Imperial Truth, he was still willing to serve the Imperium in his own way read: killing xenos on the edges of the galaxy while everyone else built an empire behind him.

Also shows the Khan trying to plan ahead for the inevitable showdown between pro and anti-psyker factions in the Imperium, and how the warrior lodges were first introduced to the Scars. On a side note, we learn that the V Legion's original name was the Star Hunters, and that they relied heavily on armor and mechanized infantry before the Khan and his Chogorian posse taught them to love jetbikes and going real fast.

The main takeaway from the book is that the XVIII Legion were stubborn badasses ready to lay down their lives for civilians right from the start of the Crusade. Without Vulkan around, though, they kept throwing themselves into desperate last stands, to the point that other Imperial forces were starting to call them suicidal. Some of the Nocturnean legionaries even suggest that the Emperor kept Vulkan away from the legion for so long because he was waiting for all the Terrans to get themselves killed, but Vulkan dismisses that idea out of hand and nothing comes of it.

There's also a pretty nifty sequence where Vulkan and a bunch of his sons surf a modified Termite assault drill into an attack moon and blow it up from the inside. Corax and the Raven Guard are sent to bring the Carinae system into compliance. He initially tries to use stealth and surgical strikes to get them to surrender peacefully with minimal casualties, until one of the Carinaean leaders unleashes what is essentially a zombie virus on his own people to cover his escape from Imperial forces.

A pissed-off Corax orders his legion to hunt the dude down and kill him, which comes at the cost of dragging out the compliance and thousands of unnecessary casualties. Corax himself admits that he didn't have time to fix everything before leaving, but pledges that he'll come back and set Kiavahr to rights once the Crusade is over.

We also get a look at what the Sable Brand is like through the eyes of an afflicted Raven Guard legionary; basically, it's a watered down version of the Black Rage that causes them to hallucinate and become suicidal, which some of them deal with by joining the Moritat.

A collection of short stories showcasing the contrast between the Primarchs and the rest of mankind, getting down to how they really perceive themselves and how humanity sees them. Grimdark Batman finally gets his very own standalone novel! The entire thing is flashbacks.

Most of it involves Curze's stasis coffin being picked up by a sub-light freighter, playing tagwith the human crew. Konrad also struggles under the weight of his visions throughout, only for before his final moments, the Emperor contacts him to tell him his visions of the future weren't fixed, that Curze chose this fate.

The Emperor tells him of this after Curze makes a statue of him out of flesh. Also include an Assassin operative setting out a beacon to give M'shen Curze's location. Curze also kept the human who drove him. Highlights include Curze killing a woman who wanted to commit suicide.

Though she definitely didn't want Curze to do it, fucked up as he was. And Curze eating his victims because he enjoyed it. Also Curze hated Corax, not because Corax was good, but because Corax was a better ninja than him Curze. Seriously though, this summary doesn't do it much justice.

It's still a pretty good book. And it's barely pages, read it anyway. It covers a discussion between Malcador and a Stormtrooper named Khalid Hassan about the nature of the Emperor's plans and whether or not Malcador agreed with everything the Emperor thought. Malcador also reveals the doors to the Golden Throne and indicates the awesome battle going on behind them, foreshadowing the events of the Webway War that are covered later on in the main series. Perturabo: Stone and Iron A minor story largely about showing the differences between the Iron Warriors and the Imperial Fists, so doesn't provide any major revelations for the series.

The Iron Warriors are supposed to be supporting an Imperial Fist position that is currently under assault, but Perturabo holds back and uses the opportunity to instruct his own officers about how the Fists prosecute their own wars.

Grandfather's Gift: Mortarion has a lab accident and knocks himself out. He wakes up in Nurgle's Garden, wanders around for a bit, and has a nice chat with Ku'Gath the Plaguefather, whose name is misspelled for some reason.

It's revealed that Nurgle has tracked down his foster father's soul and will let Mortarion capture it as a gift for joining his service. The timeline is a bit squiffy due to warp fuckery.

Mortarion knows what daemons are and knows that he's fought alongside them, but doesn't recognize Ku'Gath. Ku'Gath knows Mortarion, but also says that they haven't met yet.

Morty himself doesn't know where he is or what's going on at first, but eventually his memories return, and he mutates into his daemon primarch form and captures his foster father's soul. A Lesson in Iron: Ferrus Manus chases some orks into a warp rift and stumbles across an Iron Hands ship from a few thousand years in the future.

The boarding parties he sends are attacked by daemons which fuck them up, and Ferrus himself finds a dead future Iron Hand whose bionics look like a shitty hack-job to him, so he gets pissy and orders everyone to leave. When his Mechanicum adept points out that they might be able to mine the databanks for advanced technology and info on future events, he declares that he wants no part of this future.

Also reveals that Ferrus had seen enough shit on Medusa to know that the Imperial Truth was a 'useful lie. Forge World is producing a new line of books and models in addition to Imperial Armour and Warhammer Forge to allow players to fight battles from the Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40, This includes rules and models for the Primarchs both pre- and post-fall, for the Traitors as well as ancient vehicles. No xenos, unfortunately. Still worth it, though. Forge World starts big, as their first book covers the battles on Istvaan III, in which Horus sent the remaining loyalist elements of the Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children, Death Guard, and World Eaters to the surface, ostensibly to rout the anti-Imperial resistance that had taken hold in the capital city, and then fired Exterminatus torpedoes of the life-eater virus bomb variety onto the city to wipe them out.

Unfortunately for Horus, not everything went as planned; not only did the loyalist Death Guard frigate Eisenstein escape to the Phalanx with word of Horus's betrayal, but loyalist elements on other ships were able to disrupt the bombardment and warn the loyalists on the ground that it was coming. Between the disruption, the warning, and good old-fashioned Space Marine toughness, only a third or so of the landed force had actually died.

Horus would have fired another bombardment, but Angron and his traitor World Eaters jumped the gun and made planetfall; the other traitors were left with no choice but to deploy themselves and destroy the remaining loyalists personally. Betrayal contains a Great Crusade Legion army list for which we have a tactica , and rules for special characters and units from the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor's Children, and World Eaters Legions, including their Primarchs even Fulgrim, who was not actually at the battle and several major characters from the book series such as Garviel Loken.

The books storyline is essentially just the first day of the battle, leading up to the death of Ferrus Manus.

Massacre contains additional rules for special characters and units from the Iron Hands, Night Lords, Salamanders and Word Bearers Legions including their Primarchs and several more major characters from the book series make their debut such as Sevatar, Eidolon, Erebus and Kharn.

Lorgars psychic rules. The Legiones Astartes Crusade Army List is basically the generic 30k Space Marine 'codex', whilst the Isstvan Campaign Legions contains all of the collected rules for the legions from Books ; their units, characters and wargear in the previous three books. One of the novellas is mainly about an all-out close-quarters space battle, between a Loyalist Retribution Fleet sent to punish Horus following the events of Isstvan III Book 3 and the Traitor fleet that ambushes it; the other new novella deals with the aftermath of another naval engagement in space that cripples the Night Lords Legion.

The narratives of all stories fill gaps in the series or add further details about the Heresy and its actors; they cover periods that range from several decades before the conflict to around the time frame of Book 18 one short story is a prequel to that novel.

Angel Exterminatus covers a Traitor operation in uncharted and dangerous galactic space, that may purportedly decide the war in favour of the rebels. The story provides further glimpses of disparate motivations and conflicting objectives among traitor factions as the Heresy campaign continues. It is taking place some time after the Dropsite Massacre Book 5 , shortly following the events described by two novellas Books 20 and However the core plot is set in motion by Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children, who share the spotlight.

The embittered Iron Warriors have aligned with Horus out of frustration with the ignominious and unheralded role assigned them by the Imperium; before the story begins, they lash out in unforgivable genocide. In the story, they are invited to the freelance operation which is unknown to the Warmaster by Fulgrim and his Legion, who have their own agenda.

The operation's true goal is kept secret from Perturabo and his Space Marines, who come to realise that not all fellow rebels can be trusted. A side thread involves Fabius Bile, the chief medical officer of the Emperor's Children, and the Traitors' top geneticist; he is on a no-holds-barred quest to exceed the Emperor's genetic achievements. Betrayer returns the series to the action in the Ultramar theatre; it starts around the time the events of Book 19 begin to unfold.

In tenuous and fragile cooperation, the two very different Traitor Legions lay waste to worlds across Ultramar; it is a 'Shadow Crusade' meticulously planned by Primarch Lorgar of the Word Bearers, who deploys Abyss -class spaceships. The campaign's strategic goal is the destruction or isolation of the powerful Ultramarines Legion, its home star system, and the system's considerable resources; removing Ultramar as a factor in the war is one of Horus' primary objectives.

The scheming Primarch of the Word Bearers orchestrates genocide in unprecedented scale, as a way to summon the powers of Chaos. With their help, he hopes to generate the so-called Ruinstorm , an immense interdimensional disturbance that will create an impenetrable veil around Ultramar.

As the final piece of his plan, Lorgar engineers the 'ascension' into daemonhood of the increasingly unstable Angron: the event is to act as the conduit for the unnatural storm. Mark of Calth is the fifth compilation to appear in the series; it contains seven short stories and one novella, each by a different author. As of April , print editions were generally between and pages, though some mass market versions have rendered in more; total series length in first paperback edition was about 10, print pages 24 titles.

Durations of audio versions spread from about 6 hours for the abridged editions to anywhere between 11 and 19 hours for the unabridged editions; the total length of the unabridged edition was about hours, divided among 13 titles. CD audiobooks were published in packages of 5 discs per abridged title; two unabridged titles were available on CD, with the longest packaged in 13 discs.

Outside the UK, series titles are published in several countries and languages by Black Library divisions or as co-editions with local associates. As of April , other-language renditions lagged the English-language series in the number of released titles, and had followed distinct publication schedules and release sequences.

Starting November , new titles have often been released simultaneously in multiple media; occasionally since then, new titles' digital or audio releases have preceded the print versions, in reverse of previous practice see table 'Published' above.

Series stories have appeared in whole or in part in other Black Library publications, sometimes before the corresponding series books have become generally available; prepublications have included stand-alone releases of compilation stories. There have been a number of special editions and bundles published in a variety of media; bundles have included the 'Horus Heresy Collections', which mix editions and media of the same or different titles.

Certain special editions are available in limited distribution months before the release of the corresponding regular, or wider-release, versions. The books' cover art has been separately released, in poster and other formats. Series bundles and special offers have also contained the separate artwork releases of the included titles.

English-language series releases include publishing of the titles in special 'premium' editions: 'Premium Hardback' print and 'Enhanced Ebook' digital. These versions contain additional material and artwork, and are published several months before their general-availability or regular edition counterparts. The first title to appear in 'premium' editions, in October , was Angel Exterminatus Book The earlier catalogue of the series is also republished in these editions, again beginning October with the series-opening novel trilogy.

Several [ clarification needed ] novels in The Horus Heresy series have appeared in UK and US science fiction charts, have occupied high positions in Nielsen BookScan genre lists, and since early have often charted in The New York Times Bestseller List for mass-market paperbacks.

Critical reception of individual titles has been mixed, yet the general tone of reviews has been mostly positive. Although the series overall has been viewed favourably, there have been complaints about its length, the multitude of characters and narrative threads, and the timeline jumps or repetitions caused by the nonlinear storytelling.

Early in its publishing history, the series became a sales success in its category. Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, the opening title, set the pace shortly after its release, topping Locus magazine's 'Locus Bestsellers: Gaming-Related' list of August ; as of Book 22 September , practically every title in the series had achieved the same or similar performance on this chart.

Abnett's Prospero Burns was next, reaching number 16 in January ; this title also topped a science fiction and fantasy book chart published by The Times London in March of the same year. Book 19, Know No Fear , again by Abnett, continued the trend: it appeared at number 21 in March It was followed on the List by the next series title, The Primarchs , a compilation edited by Dunn, which occupied position 29 during the week of 17 June ; in addition, The Primarchs had placed first in Publishers Weekly 's science fiction bestsellers listing for the week of 28 May Between the late—s introduction of the Horus Heresy and the start of this series publication in , Games Workshop and affiliates released Horus Heresy -branded products that expanded the concept's standing as Warhammer 40, background material.

Pre-series Horus Heresy literature and other related works may have been superseded or rendered obsolete, while other similar material may no longer be authoritative even as it remains in Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40, canons; [62] still other non-series Horus Heresy material has been eventually incorporated into the work. A significant development was the initial release of the Horus Heresy miniatures wargame expansion, which repositioned the concept as a foreground element within the Warhammer 40, gaming system — while highlighting the importance of the Horus Heresy to Games Workshop's product lineup and the related universe.

The Black Library and Games Workshop have released novels, game rulebooks, and other products not branded or classified as Horus Heresy , yet directly relating to story arcs or events described in the series.

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