The Burden of Loyalty

The Horus Heresy, Book 48

By: Dan Abnett, John French, L J Goulding, Rob Sanders, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chris Wraight, David Annandale, Gav Thorpe

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

As the darkness of the war slowly consumes the galaxy, those who still serve the Throne are faced with a struggle for their survival and the continued existence of everything they hold dear. With the threat of the Warmaster's fleet looming ever closer to Terra, it will fall to such heroes to halt the tide, but the enemies arrayed against them are powerful, and the burden of loyalty is great....

This Horus Heresy anthology contains six short stories, some of which are originally released as audio dramas, and by authors such as Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Gav Thorpe and John French. Also included are the novellas The Wolf King, by Chris Wraight, and Cybernetica, by Rob Sanders.

Contents:
Perpetual by Dan Abnett
The Binary Succession by David Annandale
Into Exile by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Ordo Sinister by John French
The Heart of the Pharos by L J Goulding
Cybernetica by Rob Sanders
The Thirteenth Wolf by Gav Thorpe
The Wolf King by Chris Wraight

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Refreshing

I’ve come to dread the short story collections over the last few books but this was a surprisingly good collection.

Another good anthology from the Horus Heresy

Most stories were enjoyable. Russ, Mechanicum, Knights Errant, fun stories all around. And best of all, in my opinion, Oll Person has a short story to catch us up on where he and the other Calth survivors have been spending the past few years.

A nice reprieve before the end

I think this anthology really was great in contextualizing various angles of participants across this series. Showcasing the various stories calling back to how arduous this war has been, and how betrayal and corruption mark all involved. The last two stories were my favorite in showing the challenges that the characters faced during the Horus Heresy, more variety of unsung heroes leading up to the Siege.

The Wolf King

Some good some great few that nobody will care about but Wolf King for my Wolves out there

A rare anthology that stands on its own

Other than cybernetica that dragged on for what felt like a year, this is a very strong set of short stories and novellas. Stand outs were Wolf King, Ordo Sinister and Binary Succession.

not impressed

Another series of fluff cannon. Techmarines willy nilly throwing tanks, simultaneously blocking 5 shots while killing 6 people and also reprogramming all evil to be non heresy

A Decent Anthology

In a series inundated with mediocre anthologies this stands out as an actually entertaining one. Moreover several of its stories, disjointed and out of timeline as they tend to be are actually important including covering the change from Mechanicum to Adeptus Mechanicus

Slow start, but worth listening to

The first two stories are ok, but the third one, Cybernetica, was bad. It states off good, but went on for too long and was very predictable and boring by the end of it. However, the stories after that were much better.

Good mash-up of stories

This is a good compilation of several stories that offers some great insight and past history that has always been glossed over.

its warhammer 40k

Its warhammer 40k, need I say more. its better than a star wars novel, but not an epoch of fiction. Get this one if you like Jonathan Keebles amazing voice and you like nice short stories. I wish we could have spent more time with Ol Perssons, especially since as a perpetual he has all the time in the worlds.