The Horus Heresy · Book 8
Battle for the Abyss
- Published
- 1 August 2008
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781849708074
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 2008, "Battle for the Abyss" holds position 8 in the Horus Heresy, a Horus Heresy novel, written by Ben Counter, and runs 416 pages. 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
Battle for the Abyss is book 8 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Legion. It is followed by Mechanicum. 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 9781844166572
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849708074