Synopses & Reviews
For the first time in the
New York Times bestselling series, this omnibus returns to the beginning of The Horus Heresy. The novels
Horus Rising,
False Gods and
Galaxy in Flames are presented alongside additional stories that set the stage for the unimaginable conflict still to come...
It was to be the dawn of a glorious new age.
Following countless millennia of darkness and strife, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind had reconquered world after world in a Great Crusade, the like of which the galaxy had never seen. Having established themselves as the most powerful military force ever to march under a single banner, the Space Marine Legions were each led by a god-like primarch – those apparently immortal sons of the Emperor himself. Humanity seemed set to rule the stars once more.
And then came Horus. The noble Warmaster, and reviled arch-traitor.
For the first time in the New York Times bestselling series, this omnibus returns to the beginning of The Horus Heresy and shines new light on the events that preceded it. The novels Horus Rising,False Gods and Galaxy in Flames are presented alongside additional stories that set the stage for the unimaginable conflict still to come...
Synopsis
For the first time in the New York Times bestselling series, this omnibus returns to the beginning of The Horus Heresy. The novels Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames are presented alongside additional stories that set the stage for the unimaginable conflict still to come...
It was to be the dawn of a glorious new age.
Following countless millennia of darkness and strife, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind had reconquered world after world in a Great Crusade, the like of which the galaxy had never seen. Having established themselves as the most powerful military force ever to march under a single banner, the Space Marine Legions were each led by a god-like primarch - those apparently immortal sons of the Emperor himself. Humanity seemed set to rule the stars once more.
And then came Horus. The noble Warmaster, and reviled arch-traitor.
For the first time in the New York Times bestselling series, this omnibus returns to the beginning of The Horus Heresy and shines new light on the events that preceded it. The novels Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames are presented alongside additional stories that set the stage for the unimaginable conflict still to come...
About the Author
Dan Abnett is the author of the Horus Heresy novels
The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and
Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both
New York Times bestsellers. He has written almost fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series, and the Eisenhorn
and Ravenor trilogies. He scripted
Macragge’s Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous audio dramas and short stories set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer universes. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.
Graham McNeill has written more Horus Heresy novels than any other Black Library author! His canon of work includes Vengeful Spirit, his New York Times bestseller A Thousand Sons and the novella The Reflection Crack’d, which featured in The Primarchs anthology. Graham’s Ultramarines series, featuring Captain Uriel Ventris, is now six novels long, and has close links to his Iron Warriors stories, the novel Storm of Iron being a perennial favourite with Black Library fans. He has also written a Mars trilogy, featuring the Adeptus Mechanicus. For Warhammer, he has written the Time of Legends trilogy The Legend of Sigmar, the second volume of which won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award. Originally hailing from Scotland, Graham now lives and works in Nottingham.
Ben Counter is one of Black Library’s most popular Warhammer 40,000 authors, with two Horus Heresy novels to his name: Galaxy in Flames and Battle for the Abyss. He is also the author of the Soul Drinkers series and The Grey Knights Omnibus. For Space Marine Battles, he has written the The World Engine and Malodrax, and has turned his attention to the Space Wolves Chapter with the novella Arjac Rockfist: Anvil of Fenris and a number of short stories. He is a fanatical painter of miniatures, a pursuit which has won him his most prized possession: a prestigious Golden Demon award. He lives in Portsmouth, England.