Horus Rising
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781849700153
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Horus Rising" is book 1 in the Horus Heresy, a Horus Heresy novel published in 2006, written by Dan Abnett, and runs 416 pages. It's the book that opens the series and the trilogy charting Horus's corruption by the Chaos gods. Like the rest of the Horus Heresy, it's part of Black Library's prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000, telling the ten-thousand-year-old origin story of the Emperor's Great Crusade and the Warmaster Horus's turn to Chaos.
Key facts about Horus Rising
Dan Abnett wrote Horus Rising, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 2006. The book has 416 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781849700153 to find the main one.
Horus Rising is book 1 of 54 in The Horus Heresy series. The series has 54 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Buried Dagger is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 February 2019.
Additionally, Dan Abnett writes Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn and Ravenor, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our military science fiction and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Vincula Insurgency: Ghost Dossier 1 is the latest published Dan Abnett book on file, from 2022.
About Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett is a British novelist and comic writer, and among the most influential authors to work in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. His novel First and Only, launching the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts military science fiction series, was the very first novel published under Games Workshop's Black Library imprint, and he later wrote foundational Horus Heresy volumes including Horus Rising, the book that opened the entire 54-novel saga. See every Dan Abnett book in order.
Its place in The Horus Heresy
Horus Rising is book 1 in the The Horus Heresy series. It is followed by False Gods. 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 9781849707442
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849700153