Age of Darkness

Nice cover art

Rated 5 out of 5 by Ben

This looks both brutal and awesome(Not the Imperial Fist dying) can't wait!

Judge the book by its cover

Rated 3 out of 5 by BD

To be honest, I think the cover is a mistake. Horus looks awkwardly positioned, and his armour is too Chaos-y bearing in mind it was given to him before either he or the Fabricator General turned to Chaos. I can only hope the contents are of an altogether higher standard.

Praise be

Rated 5 out of 5 by The REd Angel

i'm so excited for this book i can't wait to see how horus makes his blood soaked path through the galaxy and don't you think this cover is foreshadowing?

To truly judge a book by its cover.

Rated 5 out of 5 by Commissar-Major

To judge the book by its cover, I would still rate it a five. Also at this point in the heresy, with all of the chaotic devotions and rituals having begun, the rebellion is in full swing, his armor being adorned by the rights of chaos undivided are completely understandable, think about it, he (with Lorgar/Daemon-Fulgrim) would be one of the most Chaotic looking of all the Primarchs. Considering most find worshipping the Gods dispicable and would much rather just see the Emperor and those primarchs that offended them dead. A cover featuring Chaos-Horus fits the title very well. Good job.

...'It means the end and the death'...

Rated 4 out of 5 by Floris

I would like to comment on mister (or, heaven forbid, miss) BD. I was wondering why his armour seems 'Choas-y bearing' to you? The eye is his signature, that's not chaotic. You could argue that the arrows on his knees are part of a chaos rune (eight pointed star). However, it could also be (and I believe it is) the gaze of the eye, radiating, warning and knowing all (eye of aversion). Either way, it's certainly not TOO chaotic. There seem to be no other potentially chaotic symbols. Secondly, the suit of armour was forged by the, by then heretical, master adept Urtzi Malevolus.

At BD

Rated 5 out of 5 by Daniel

What Floris said is completly correct, but also, if I was a Primarch that was corrupted by chaos and had a bunch of demons and shit working for me, I probly wouldnt be the type to liek all clean and pretty armor i would WANT it to be "chaos-y" and bear in mind just cause he was given the armor before he turned traitor its not like he cant change/re-paint it...he would have some of the best artificers at his disposal. Anyways, looks great to me.

Book is AMAZING

Rated 5 out of 5 by Andrew

I got this book at Black Library Live and started strait away. What most of u probably don't know it is an anthology. The first four stories are immense. I can't wait to finish the other ones.

Really Enjoyable so far

Rated 4 out of 5 by Dan (Razhbad)

Ok i have only read 3 of the short stories, but have been impressed with them all. Big praise to ADB for his short.

Cant wait!

Rated 5 out of 5 by Miguel

..and the two mystery primarchs are!? Lets not expect all that much but this will be a good change up from the other anthologies out there. Cant wait!

Another hit

Rated 5 out of 5 by Tim

An excellent addition to the Heresy line up. John French, Chris Wraight, Nick Kyme, Rob Sanders all add excellent stories to the wealth of material out there already, and add new views to the hololith of the Heresy. Messrs. Abnett, Swallow, Dembski-Bowden, and Thorpe similarly add excellent tales to the cannon. Mr. McNeill's is something of a puzzler, a good story but is causing some issues amongst my fellow readers. I liked it, but others loathed it. I sense that's what it was there fore.

More than meets the eye

Rated 5 out of 5 by Nathan

I got this book early at Adepticon and have to admit, at first, I wasn't "feeling it." But then as a I read more and got close to finishing the book, I realized that the stories are deeply interconnected and unveil a side of the heresy that we haven't seen before. All the stories are excellent, but the stand out stories for me were "The Iron Within" and "Savage Weapons."

New begining

Rated 5 out of 5 by Jon

Rules of Engagement by Graham McNeill 8/10 excellent story to start with. Liar's Due by James Swallow 7/10 fine story from an new pow Forgotten Sons by Nick Kyme 7/10 Cool adeptus astartes but booring humans The Last Remembrancer by John French 8/10 should have been much longer Rebirth by Chris Wraight 9/10 beautiful story The Face of Treachery by Gav Thorpe 7/10 short but okay Little Horus by Dan Abnett 9/10 fantastic Dan! The Iron Within by Rob Sanders 10/10 a masterpiece! one of the best battles so far in series Savage Weapons by Aaron Dembski-Bowden 9/10 very cool primarch action

Awesome

Rated 5 out of 5 by Nickolas

Give Rob Sanders a HH novel. The Iron Within is an amazing short story. Best of story in the book by far.

epicness

Rated 4 out of 5 by udontwannaknow

awesome book and very fun to read. The Iron Within is probably the best out of the bunch, I couldn't put it down without finishing that story...just plain awesome. very refreshing to read something as good as this.

so so

Rated 4 out of 5 by Matt

One or two of the stories were slightly bizzare (maybe I misunderstood them??) namely Rules of Engagement & The Last Remembrencer. Rob Sanders did a fantastic job with Iron Within - by far my favourite. And D-B gave a great account of the Lion. Still see the HH series as very pro Chaos - would be nice for once to read a novel where the Imperium kicks ass.

The Age of Mankind is over

Rated 5 out of 5 by Liam

Delightfully dark anthology, you really feel that everything the legions worked for is now slipping through their fingers, such Dark times ahead. But despite this there are seeds being planted by one notable Primarch that are laying the foundation of what the Imperium will become.

A good collection, but

Rated 4 out of 5 by Andrei

A good collection of stories. I enjoyed Savage Weapons the best. It expands on ADB's idea from "First Heretic" that perhaps super-humans were not the best choice of architects for a human world. However, I don't understand how anyone can enjoy Iron Within. It paints every non-loyalist Iron Warrior as an unskilled idiot. While the loyal Warsmith is prepared for every contingency, the traitors are apparently unprepared for everything. They waste a ton of precious resources on a planet with no strategic importance. I'm also tired of 30th millennium sieges being treated as 17th century affairs.

At Andrei

Rated 5 out of 5 by The 2nd Primarch

As for sieges in the 30k millennium defense systems where put in place to stop destruction from orbit (shielding and orbital lazars for example) and I think the loss of a few 100,000 men even if some of them are the superhuman space marines (as there gene seed will go on) out way the potential to lose a space ship or two. Especially with the mars ship blinding facilities all but destroyed and resources as an uncertainty because of the civil war across the glacises. As for the traitor warsmith being an idiot 1) he didn’t earn the title it was given to him when the rebellion began, 2) the loyalist warsmith was his mentor and goaded him with his weakness of character to push him to go for the quick victory which cost him most of this troops in the opening days leading to the long sage as he waited for reinforcement. That is my theory any way hope it helps.

Great anthology

Rated 4 out of 5 by Chris

As with all anthologies there were a good mixture of events happening, all really good stand alone stories adding to the history of the 40k universe.

Quite good

Rated 5 out of 5 by Javier

Really cool stuff here. Didn´t like the one by Rob Sanders, but enjoyed the rest a lot.

some of the best short stories ever

Rated 5 out of 5 by harry

Liars due was definetly one of my favourites the Iron Warriors story was great. Rebirth was alright but the best story by far was Savage Weapons. if your into the horus heresy then you will like this book if you don't like mystery intrigue and a primarch brouhght down to a screaming maniac by half crazy person then you should by this book anyway...