Galaxy in Flames (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
by Ben Counter
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Author: Ben CounterEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-09
ISBN: 1844163938
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Games Workshop
Accessories:
- Horus Heresy: Battle for the Abyss (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
- Chapter War : Soul Drinkers, Bk. 4 (Warhammer 40,000)
- Grey Knights (Warhammer 40,000 Novels)
Book Reviews of Galaxy in Flames (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
Book Review: The Heresy begins with a bang
Summary: 5 Stars
For the past year or so fans of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 have been tantalized and teased by the first two books in the Horus Heresy series of novels. These novels from Games Workshop's publishing arm, Black Library, were to detail the root beginnings of the most calamituous event in human history: The Horus Heresy.
The first two books in the series were titled Horus Rising and False Gods respectively. Dan Abnett wrote the first book with Graham McNeill writing the second one. Both books showed in great detail and drama the steps and circumstances which led the Emperor of Mankind's most favored Primarch and Son to stray from the Imperium's creed and falling for the lies and temptations of the Great Powers of Chaos. Abnett and McNeill's take on the Primarch Horus and his Luna Wolves (soon renamed The Sons of Horus) really emphasizes Horus' similarities to Lucifer before that angel's fall from God's grace. By the time False Gods ends the seeds of Horus' heresy has grown and he'd come up with the plans to bring those brother Primarchs he could sway to his cause and manipulate those he sees as threats to be as far away as possible from Terra and the Emperor.
Ben Counter (writer of the very good Soul Drinkers series of books) folows Abnett and McNeill with an action-packed novel that breezes by quick despite being 400+ pages long. Right from the start the reader was dropped into the preparations for an assault on Isstvaan III where a previusly compliant Imperial world has seceded from the Imperium and denounced the Emperor. We're shown how Horus and his new secret allies have made Isstvaan III to be the battleground from which Horus could weed out those Astartes whose loyalty towards the Emperor and his Imperium is much stronger than those to him. He would need to cut this small, but hard core of men from his plans of defeating the Emperor. The rest of the story deals with how Horus' plans for the loyalist Astartes comes to fruition and the fate of such loyalist characters as Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children, Loken and Torgaddon of the Luna Wolves and Captain Nathaniel Garro of the Death Guard. The novel also shows how Garro learns of the heresy and escapes with not just proof of Horus' treachery but the seed and founding of what would become the Imperial Faith in the Emperor as Divine.
Galaxy in Flames was as I'd hoped the beginning of the Heresy into full-blown war would turn out to be. The civil war which now pits brother Astartes against brother Astartes turns out to be as brutal and horrific a fight as any novel concerning these warriors in past Warhammer 40,000 novels. The Heresy has begun with Galaxy in Flames but the war itself is just beginning. Counter's writing was top-notch and this shouldn't be a surprise for anyone who has read his Soul Drinkers series. I'm a bit wary of the next book in the series which brings the story into Captain Garro's hands. The story itself should be told, but James Swallow's work on the Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius were mediocre at best. Here's to hoping that Swallow has researched his subject more and doesn't change the canon of whats allowed.
Summary of Galaxy in Flames (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy)
Having recovered from his grievous injuries, Warmaster Horus leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III. Though the rebels are swiftly crushed, Horus's treachery is finally revealed as the planet is razed by virus bombs, and Space Marines turn on their battle-brothers in the most bitter struggle imaginable.War Books
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