It is a golden age of rediscovery and conquest, and the Emperor’s Great Crusade has placed his superhuman primarch sons at the head of the mighty Space Marine Legions – the most powerful military force ever assembled. * HORUS RISING by Dan Abnett (Black Library)Īt the dawn of the 31st millennium, the Imperium of Man has reasserted its dominance over the galaxy.

Sadly, the novels afterwards were of varying quality, but the series picked up again with McNeill’s A Thousand Sons, and maintained a very strong run until everything screeched to a halt with the events on Calth… The first three novels - Horus Rising, Graham McNeill’s False Gods and Ben Counter’s Galaxy In Flames- form a fantastic opening story-arc that sets the scene brilliantly, and introduces us to some of sci-fi’s most interesting characters. The series has experienced some ups-and-downs. I haven’t reviewed all the books, though, but probably a majority have featured in some way. If you’ve been following CR for even a short while, you’ll have seen that I have been an avid, loyal reader of this series - I’ve posted many reviews of the novels, short stories, novellas and audio-dramas. In the third instalment of “Turn Back 10”, we take a look at the third review I posted on CR.ĭan Abnett’s Horus Rising is the first novel in Black Library’s long-running, at-one-time New York Times-bestselling Horus Heresy series, chronicling the beginning of what would become the Warhammer 40,000 game and fiction universe.

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