Horus Rising (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Horus Heresy) Dan Abnett
Publisher: Games Workshop

Of the game or the setting though, and recently I discovered that not long after I stopped playing a series of books started being published about one of the most pivotal moments in the future/history of 40k: The Horus Heresy. The Horus Heresy novels have taken great pains to tell us that the Heresy was the greatest tragedy of Warhammer 40000. If you have an interest in genetically enhanced superhuman warriors battling against all manner of vicious foes then I suggest you start with HORUS RISING, the first book in the Horus Heresy and a wonderful way to test the waters and The last few Horus Heresy novels have been lackluster character pieces. The Space It has been in the background for 20 or so years and for the last 7 years Black Library have been releasing the Horus Heresy series of novels. Space Marine Legions are engaged in the Great Crusade to bring worlds, both human and alien, into the Imperium. Anyway Warhammer 40,000 is epic in the truest sense of the word, a science fiction universe with a slathering of dark fantasy thrown in for good measure. The various counter-based Board Games, including Battle for Armageddon (and the add-on Chaos Attack), Horus Heresy, Doom of the Eldar, Warmaster, Arena of Blood, and Relic. Over sixty novels and short story anthologies are published by the Black Library, a subsidiary of Games Workshop, who also published the now out-of-print comic book Warhammer Monthly and short story magazine Inferno. They also weren't lying when they said that it was "a time of legend". A description of tropes appearing in Warhammer 40000. Set 10,000 years before the world of Warhammer 40,000 the Horus Heresy takes place during an age of expansion or rather re-expansion of the Imperium of Man.