The Unremembered Empire (The Horus Heresy) Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged Author: Visit Amazon's Dan Abnett Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1849705623 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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About the Author
Dan Abnett is a multiple New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over forty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies. His Horus Heresy novel Prospero Burns topped the SF charts in the UK and the US. In addition to writing for Black Library, Dan scripts audio dramas, movies, games, comics and bestselling novels for major publishers in Britain and America. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.
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- Series: The Horus Heresy
- Audio CD
- Publisher: The Black Library; Unabridged edition (January 16, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 1849705623
- ISBN-13: 978-1849705622
- Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
Here Abnett takes on a very interesting concept, a missing year in the Horus Heresy timeline where he had full authority to create a series of events that would, by the time of the later Imperium, be deliberately omitted. That the events would take place on the Ultramarines homeworld of Macragge and feature Guilliman presented Abnett with an opportunity to redress the rather lacklustre portrayal of both the Ultramarines Chapter and its Primarch in his Know No Fear novel.
The book starts well with an unnerving and ghostly series of events that are in the cinematic style of portrayal at which Abnett excels. To review this book further is to reveal many spoilers so I will conclude with a non-spoiler review in the next two paragraphs and everything below those two paragraphs should be avoided for those who do not wish to know too much.
In non-spoiler summary the plot quickly relies on a xeno-created plot device that too conveniently draws the major protagonists together (with almost no concern about the use of a xeno-device). Guilliman is given more depth here but never escapes the impression created in Know No Fear that his military expertise is more theoretical than actual (he struggles in one battle, is outclassed in another and also requires vital defensive strategy input from a Space Marine of a different chapter). We do at least see some of his emotional past which makes him more well rounded, his respect for Konor and for the surrogate mother figure who still remains. We also see the insight behind Guilliman's perception that a Codex is required to create uniformity across the loyalist Chapters. It is a shame that Abnett makes such a minimal effort of making the iconic Macragge anything other than a plain vanilla Greek Revival city.
I think both Dan Abnett and Aaron Dembski-Bowden are decent writers. Perhaps even great writers in the context solely of pulp fiction. Dan Abnett is absolutely masterful when it comes to taking a painfully cliched concept and giving it just a touch of class and novelty to allow it to lurch about on its own. A good example is how he writes Space Wolves.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden is undoubtedly Black Library's best author, in terms of being a wordsmith. He injects more thought and humanity into his characters than the rest. I think Dan is fundamentally tied to working on the foundations laid by others and giving them his 'Abnett' twist. I think Aaron could actually come up with a fascinating and entertaining universe all of his own and separate from Black Library.
Laurie Goulding and Nick Kymes are atrocious. They're pretty much the best example of someone that looked at the average quality of Black Library novels and thought to themselves "I could do that". And so they did.
But they all have one thing in common.
At some point they got together while plotting out the interminable march of the Horus Heresy series and decided that the 'Perpetuals' or the 'Cabal' was a good idea. Since Abnett's Legion, what had been a quirky facet of the overall story, has gradually grown and festered in such a way as to leech into every other aspect of the overall story.
John Grammaticus has his moments. Damon Prytanis might just be the most obnoxious character ever written in any medium. He's basically a Gary Stu that is a cross between Wolverine and Highlander...and somehow, even after 30,000 years, he is still motivated by the 'pay' he receives from the Cabal. Damon Prytanis seems to show up everywhere...even inserting himself into Aaron's 'Betrayer'.
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