The Horus Heresy · Book 3
Galaxy in Flames
- Published
- 1 September 2006
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781844163939
- Type
- novel

About this book
"Galaxy in Flames" (2006) is a Horus Heresy novel at number 3 in the Horus Heresy, written by Ben Counter, and runs 416 pages. It closes the opening trilogy at the shattering moment the Legions turn on each other at Isstvan. It's part of the wide, mosaic middle stretch of the series, telling the war from a different Legion or theatre than its neighbors while the official numbering keeps the whole saga anchored in sequence.
Its place in The Horus Heresy
Galaxy in Flames is book 3 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows False Gods. It is followed by The Flight of the Eisenstein. 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 9781844163939