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Era of Ruin

The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra

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Era of Ruin

By: Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, John French, Guy Haley, Nick Kyme, Gav Thorpe, Chris Wraight
Narrated by: Shogo Miyakita, Colleen Prendergast, Jonathan Keeble
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A Siege of Terra Anthology

Horus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war.

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This is the final instalment of the Horus Heresy – but that was just the beginning of a much darker tale which will be 10,000 years in the telling. These short stories show us glimpses of the stories that spun out of the Siege of Terra as the fledgling Imperium put together the pieces after the galaxy-shattering destruction, and those who fought on both sides, as they try to move on from the unthinkable events of the bloody conflict.

THE STORY

In Chris Wraight’s Homebound, Ilya Ravallion must choose between the decimated White Scars and living out what remains of her life in peace. An embattled Ahzek Ahriman must race against time to learn what he can of the warp before its gates close to him forever in Ex Libris by John French.

Featuring tales from Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and many more, this anthology follows mighty Custodians, scheming sorcerers, and the lowly footsoldiers of the Imperial Army as all negotiate the devastating aftermath of Humanity's greatest reckoning.

CONTENTS

– Introduction, by Jacob Youngs

– Angels of Another Age, by John French

– Fulgurite, by Nick Kyme

– Fragments (All We Have Left), by Dan Abnett

– Ex Libris, by John French

– System Purge, by Gav Thorpe

– After the Dawn, the Darkness, by Guy Haley

– Homebound, by Chris Wraight

– The Carrion Lord of the Imperium, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Audio is narrated by Shogo Miyakita, Colleen Prendergast, and Jonathan Keeble. Runtime 8 hours and 31 minutes approx.

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Poignant vignettes about what comes after the apocalypse if you're still alive, ties up some threads, leaves you really thinking about what happened in the heresy, some of the best 40k writing yet, brilliantly read by the narrators, each brought their parts to life in a unique way, perfect afterword to the horus heresy series

after The End and The Death, life goes on

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great stories my favourites are the first, last and second last but all are great

great short stories

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Oh dear! Well having read through this series, there was such a need for a series of short stories to tie up some of the threads - or maybe link to new ones - but unfortunately very few if these stories delivered. I'm almost positive that in the writers meeting they had the words "the world has ended, nothing will be the same again" because the phrase is used again and again, to the point of it becoming a drinking game.
As usual the performances are great, but the stories are lacklustre on the positive side, and filler on the negative side. I would expect more from GW and Black Library, but alas this goes by with nothing of consequence really happening. The final story is vaguely interesting, and the one with the child has some feeling to it, but honestly, the rest added nothing to the universe and could all disappear into the Warp and no one would notice. Of all the subjects to pick in that universe, at that time, these would not be any of them.

Goes Nowhere Slowly

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I always wanted perspectives of the aftermath and that is what this gives you. Some of the stories stand out but all are pretty great. Good narration as well. the End of Ruin in particular I loved, great to see a happy ending for my boy Katsuhiro

A good way to round it out

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Great way to finish the story off with quaint focused short stories showing the beginning of the Age of decay

Great series capstone

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It's all a bit bland and inconsequential. Ties up the story for some of the minor characters but mostly in a way that feels like it's killing time.

Its basically a book of side stories that avoids the main plot entirely. I guess I was expecting what now seems to be the scouring series.

Also I really didn't enjoy the new narrator. He is quite bland and monotone. I hope they bring back Keeble for the Scouring series.

Not great to be honest

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Stories seem rushed and inconsequential. Narrating is monotonal and boring. Worst book in the Siege of Terra series and possibly one of the worst books of the entire Horus Heresy. Very disappointed.

Disappointing

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