Deliverance Lost concerns the Raven Guard, who were a loyalist legion of Space Marines who were almost wiped out several books ago. This novel takes place just after the end of both Fulgrim and The[…]
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Category: Books
The Outcast Dead
Another day, another lot of Space Marines… The Outcast Dead is eventually about the eponymous group of renegade Space Marines who form another A-team analogue (see also Nemesis). More poetically, it is about lots of[…]
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Drachenfels
Drachenfels was, I think, the first novel Games Workshop published, and the first I read. It also led me to read a lot of Kim Newman’s work, such as The Quorum. Drachenfels was written under[…]
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Age of Darkness
Age of Darkness is an anthology of Horus Heresy short stories, most of which aren’t that great. From a distance, all the books are about Space Marines shooting each other in the face, but each[…]
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Nemesis
Nemesis is the first Horus Heresy novel I’ve read that isn’t focussed on Space Marines. Instead, there’s a bit of politics, some body horror, stealing from Angel Heart, my favourite dreadful Mickey Rourke film, a[…]
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The Labyrinth Index
As with every year that a book in the series is published, in 2018 we got a signed copy of The Labyrinth Index to celebrate our anniversary. This is possibly a bit inappropriate for a[…]
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The First Heretic
Another week, another Horus Heresy book… I really liked Dembski-Bowen’s The Black Legion because it had depth and nuance and smart characters and not just “raaah, we’re eeeevil!” idiots. I can blame that book for persuading[…]
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Prospero Burns
Prospero Burns is another Horus Heresy book, and I think the best written that I’ve read so far. It’s a companion to A Thousand Sons – this time written from the point of view of[…]
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Fallen Angels & A Thousand Sons
I read two more Games Workshop novels, one about Dark Angels, and the other about the Thousand Sons. The Space Marines aren’t just a bunch of fanatic supersoldiers in power armour. Each Legion has a[…]
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The Lords Of Silence
On the flight to London I read The Lords Of Silence, a novel centred on the eponymous Lords, a warband of evil Plague Marines. As with most things, it’s more fun to read about the[…]
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