There are multiple perspectives here, something that I have enjoyed and also that I’ve been annoyed by in turns in the Horus Heresy. It’s a great hook, and I was enthralled right away. I’m writing this about my own journey, and I hope you’ll take it with me! All of this is to say I had no idea I’d run into Magnus the Red and Ahriman (who, so far as I know, are both pretty evil dudes in the 40K part of the universe) as such sympathetic characters.Ī Thousand Sons starts off almost as an invitation–come read, and see that the Thousand Sons tried to do what was right. So it’s likely someone who is steeped in the lore of the universe will laugh at my comments. I say this as someone who has really only experienced the WH40K universe piecemeal, having started years ago with the Eisenhorn Trilogy and then picking away at different reads that looked interesting, largely through omnibus editions. Psykers and Heresy go hand-in-hand in the Warhammer 40K universe, and picking up this book about the Thousand Sons Legion had me expecting to find astartes that were already broken and mired in Chaotic evil.

Please DO NOT SPOIL later books in the series. There will be SPOILERS from the books discussed as well as previous books in the series. I’m reading the series in publication order unless otherwise noted. With more than 50 novels and many, many short stories, there will be a lot of posts in this series (I doubt I’ll get to all the short stories). I thought it would be awesome to blog the series as I go.

I know I’m late to the party, but I finally decided to start reading the “Horus Heresy,” a huge series of novels set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000 (though it is set much earlier than the year 40,000).

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