The Horus Heresy · Book 41

The Master of Mankind

by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Published
26 November 2016
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781784965365
Type
novel

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About this book

Published in 2016, "The Master of Mankind" holds position 41 in the Horus Heresy, a Horus Heresy novel, written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, and comes in at 368 pages. It's part of the later stretch of the series building toward the Siege of Terra. 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

The Master of Mankind is book 41 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Corax. It is followed by Garro. 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…

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