The Horus Heresy · Book 1
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.
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