Thursday 10 November 2016

Eye of Terra

Eye of Terra, edited by Laurie Goulding, is the thirty-fifth installment in the Horus Heresy series. It is an anthology of fifteen previously published short stories by eleven authors, and also includes the novella Aurelian.

David Annandale's Iron Corpses is set in the aftermath of the Battle of Tallarn, and follows an Iron Warrior Warsmith as he hijacks a loyalist Titan in order to survive the irradiated wastelands.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden's Massacre was originally published in segments on the Black Library website, and follows the characters from his Night Lords series during the events of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre. The Long Night takes place during Sevatar's imprisonment aboard the Invincible Reason, and sees him befriend one of the ship's Navigators and escape in order to kill another Navigator who beat her.

Matthew Farrer's Vorax is his first story for the Heresy since After Desh'ea. It follows a traitor Mechanicum being who is killed by deadly Vorax constructs.

John French's The Eagle's Talon was originally paired as an audio drama with Iron Corpses. Told through a non-linear sequence of vox recordings, it follows a strike team of Imperial Fists as they infiltrate and bring down an enemy ship during the Battle of Tallarn.

Guy Haley's The Final Compliance of Sixty-Three Fourteen follows the Imperial Governor of a world brought to compliance by the Luna Wolves who is faced with Horus's return and his demands to join in his rebellion.

Nick Kyme's Red-Marked chronicles the founding of Aeonid Thiel's Red-Marked squadron, forged in battle as they foil a plot by Word Bearers and World Eaters dregs left over from the Shadow Crusade. Stratagem depicts Thiel's first meeting with Roboute Guilliman since Calth and reveals Thiel's influence on the proto Codex Astartes.

Graham McNeill's The Wolf of Ash and Fire features Horus and the Emperor fighting side-by-side against an Ork empire prior the Heresy, and a point-of-view from Hastur Sejanus as he leads his squad to Horus's rescue after he falls down a chasm at the heart of the Ork junk-asteroid.

Rob Sanders' Ironfire features the return of Idriss Krendl after his crippling in The Iron Within, as he tests a new siege tactic against a fortress of Emperor's Children using two of the siege cannons gifted to Perturabo by the Lion.

Andy Smillie's Sins of the Father features Sanguinius brooding on the fate and character of Amit and Azkaellon as they duel. The Herald of Sanguinius describes the selection ritual to decide the first Sanguinor during the time of the Imperium Secundus.

Gav Thorpe's Inheritor follows the actions of Eliphas the Inheritor on Kronus during the Shadow Crusade, linking to the Dawn of War game Dark Crusade. Master of the First was originally paired as an audio drama with The Long Night, and follows Astelan of the Dark Angels as he sets up and then turns against an anti-Luther uprising on Caliban.

Chris Wraight's Brotherhood of the Moon joins Allegiance in being a sequel to Scars, and follows Torghun Khan as he faces trial for his traitorous actions in that novel.

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