The Horus Heresy · Book 12
A Thousand Sons
- Published
- 1 March 2010
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN-13
- 9781849708203
- Type
- novel
About this book
"A Thousand Sons" (2010) is a Horus Heresy novel at number 12 in the Horus Heresy, written by Graham McNeill, and comes in at 560 pages. It tells the tragedy of the loyal Thousand Sons Legion and is named among the series' strongest entries. Like the rest of the Horus Heresy, it's military science fiction with operatic stakes -- brothers destroying brothers, and gods whispering behind the history that becomes 40K's backstory.
Its place in The Horus Heresy
A Thousand Sons is book 12 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Fallen Angels. It is followed by Nemesis. See the full The Horus Heresy reading order.
The Horus Heresy is Black Library's monumental prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000 — the ten-thousand-year-old origin story every 40K fan knows in outline, finally told in full across 54 official volumes by a rotating team of authors. In the 31st millennium the Emperor of Mankind has nearly completed the Great Crusade, reuniting the human galaxy through his twenty superhuman primarch sons and their Space Marine legions. He names his most brilliant son, Horus, Warmaster — then returns to Terra on a secret project…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849708203