Other Legions and Primarchs are also featured, while one short story takes place on Mars and illuminates an aspect of the Traitor Mechanicum's conspiracy.
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.
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Following the Siege of Terra, Horus was permakilled, Big E was interred onto the Golden Throne, the surviving primarchs freaked out trying to figure out what do now that daddy was in a coma, the traitors fucked off into the Eye of Terror, and overall the galaxy slowly and collectively lost their minds now that their wise and all-powerful ruler was no longer around to tell them what to do.
First published in by Game Designer's Workshop, it was the Emprah versus his evil bastard of a son in the scorched earth of Terra. Ahem, as he was saying, The more recent edition was published by Fantasy Flight Games.
Also a two-player wargame, it includes over sculpted minifigs, sculpted buildings, and even Horus and the Emprah themselves are units on the board. It also adds more territory, as the fight can be pushed back onto the traitor's flagship Vengeful Spirit.
Combat is less dice-y and more card-y. Not to be confused with the lame Horus Heresy card game, whose only saving grace was the awesome card art that would appear in the Horus Heresy artbooks anyway. For the last decade, Black Library has been publishing novels that explore the events of the Horus Heresy, looking at the rivalries among the Primarchs and exploring just why everything went down the tubes.
The novels are by a selection of different authors, which is a total pain if you like to organise your books alphabetically by author. The reception to the series has been somewhat Of course, like we mentioned, there's some that are Well, let's just say that the worst are a matter of much debate. Yep, it's getting an entire series to itself. What, did you really think they'd dedicate only one book to it? The series is slated to be eight books long.
Because Black Library don't seem satisfied confusing us with all their anthologies, audio-books, and short stories, they have begun releasing a spin-off series of Horus Heresy novels centered on the Primarchs.
The series don't really take place in a specific time, but generally focuses on expanding on the titular Primarch's backstory and motivations during events before the Horus Heresy though some of them also have events occurring after it.
Why Black Library lists it as part of the Horus Heresy series when that isn't always the case is beyond our comprehension. Centers on the papa smurf himself, and him trying to deal with how the Emperor used him like a rusty hammer to smack Lorgar in the head at Monarchia. Uses a conflict against Orks squatting on human ruins as a vehicle for him and the smurfs to express their angst over the event.
Eventually discover that the original humans went extinct from literally a war of red shirts vs blue shirts. A subplot details the conflict of morality the Ultramarines legion had with their Destroyer companies, especially the Nemesis Chapter later a second founding who held on to their Terran roots.
Guilliman didn't much like their use, but eventually saw their necessity especially when Imperium Secundus came swinging around. Focuses on Leman Russ' notorious rivalry with the Lion, and explaining why to this day whenever the Chapters meet they throw the gauntlet down and beat the stuffing out of one another. Notably it reveals some interesting stuff like the Lion being aware of the Space Wolves' furry issue and keeping a lid on it.
And that the Lion shanked Russ in the imperial basement in front of a fresco of the compliance where they previously fought. Establishes clearly that even with overpowered Mech suits, baseline humans will always lose to legionary soldiers.
Depicts the unlikely friendship between Magnus and old Pert with a joint venture between their legions to evacuate a planet that's getting torn apart by accelerated magnetic polarity shifts. Things go wrong on the planet due to totally not Chaos cult nonsense, and it does a decent job of showing Magnus' flaws, specifically his inability to leave things that have 'do not fuck with this' written on them alone, something Pert tries and fails at making him understand.
Crucially, it's set early enough in the Crusade that the use of psychic powers by Astartes is uncommon and the Thousand Sons basically have to keep a lid on how powerful they really are. They do not succeed. The original colonists of Morningstar survived by rounding up all the psykers into their seed ship and splitting them from their psychic powers, throne room of the emperor style.
However since they didn't dissipate these psychic powers, the souls of the psykers just floated around inside the ship until they joined up into a single entity. When their jailers realized what was happening, they ran and sealed the ship but the psychic gestalt had already infected their minds with a doomsday meme, resulting in the shenanigans that Magnus and Pert arrive to.
Magnus poke balls the psychic gestalt into his book, and the surviving natives of Morningstar are obliterated in space to stop the meme from spreading. Probably the book in the series that did the most character building of all of them.
This book is a mix of showing off Perturabo's childhood on Olympia alongside a 'current' day conflict against the Hrud. The former showing why Pert is the odd genius manchild guy he is, while the latter does a great job of showing why fucking with an alien species capable of controlling time is somewhat of a stupid idea. However, the real draw of the book is that it is mainly written as an attempt to merge together the seemingly contradictory depictions of Pert we've had over the years.
Showing how the ruthless dick who decimates his legion for not being good enough in the Forgeworld books is the same guy who just wanted to be a builder in Angel Exterminatus.
Definitely a sperg. Also he may or may not have wanted to bang his adopted sister. Yep, the first ish? Focusing slightly more on Kor Phaeron rather than Lorgar himself, showing him to be a manipulative dick who beat Lorgar as a child and never really bought into this whole 'fatherhood' shtick, or this whole concept of One True God but allowed Lorgar his fantasies and to take over Colchis By 'Word' or by 'Mace' while Phaeron benefitted from increased position and secretly kept the faith of Chaos Gods.
Though by the end Kor Phaeron wonders if Lorgar just let him think that he was manipulated and could have disposed of him at any time. The book does introduce a contrasting character to Kor Phaeron who actually shows Lorgar compassion growing up and was far more worthy of being named 'father' but was far less useful to Lorgar's goals.
The book shows that Lorgar isn't as stupid or naive as everyone thinks and does indeed realise that people have been using him for their own gains, but while he only really cares about doing the work of the gods, so long as they both align he doesn't seem to care.
Fulgrim tries to conquer the newly discovered planet Byzas with only 7 men. Planet has devolved to steam power and bolt-action bolters, but capital palace has DAOT gun defenses and they use anti-grav airships think blimps but no gas bubble.
Along the way he encounters a brotherhood much like his own that wants to work with him that Fulgrim dismisses as a bunch of idealists. It's implied that he COULD have gotten the same results Compliance working with them but unfortunately that would have meant calling in backup and Fulgrim didn't want to do that so that was out of the question.
In the end Fulgrim takes the world, but nearly dies from a hidden hydrogen bomb which he disarms. Several of the characters such as Cyrius who gets shanked by a squad from the brotherhood while wearing armor and has to be saved by fulgrim , who later became Lucius's first armor-victim actually, and Kasperos Telmar later become prominent champions of chaos, while the others were blown up on Istvaan III.
Also makes the first but all too brief direct mention of one of the Missing Primarchs, as well as the amusing spectacle of Fabius Bile in formal attire. Ferrus is overseeing joint exercises between the Iron Hands and the Emperor's Children when he learns about a noncompliant human empire called the Gardinaal.
He decides that he'll conquer them singlehandedly so as to impress the Emperor and his brothers and maybe even get appointed to that Warmaster position everyone's whispering about. He pretty quickly decides to quit fucking around and orders his fleet to demolish their entire capital planet before personally going down to smash faces in until the Gardinaal surrender.
In the end, he admits to Fulgrim that he doesn't have the patience to be Warmaster, and that he'll back whoever gets the job. Probably the highlight of the novel is that we get a look inside Ferrus' head while it's still attached to the rest of him. 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. The first edition of the novel was published in March , and was written by Dan Abnett. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.
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