Prospero Burns (The Horus Heresy) [Mass Market Paperback]

Dan Abnett (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Horus Heresy | Publication Date: December 28, 2010

Dan Abnett returns to the best-selling Horus Hersey series in this latest instalment of the saga!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Abnett excels at characterisation as well as fast paced action.A" - SF Site Abnett does a bang up job of detailing the various settings in the book and bringing the universe to life. It feels lived in, alive - If there's one thing Abnett does well, it's write a kick-butt action sequence.A" - SF Signal Abnett's prose grabs you by the throat and forces you to witness the carnage!A" - SFX I was impressed by how he was a master of battle sequences, and still could create ambiguous three-dimensional characters forced to deal with moral dilemmasA" - Pat's Fantasy Hotlist Abnett is the Warmaster as far as I'm concerned!A" - Graeme's Fantasy Book Review "With a firm grasp of character and a superior ability to convey action (you can almost hear the bullets roaring overhead and feel the apprehension of troops stuck in foxholes), Abnett delivers a great, readable SF novel here and earns his comparisons to an SF Bernard Cornwell." - Wertzone on Gaunt's Ghosts The Founding "a master of battle sequences" Pat's Fantasy Hotlist --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Dan Abnett is a novelist and award-winning comic book writer.  He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and, with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent. 

Dan’s website can be found at www.DanAbnett.com

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Games Workshop; Original edition (December 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844167771
• ISBN-13: 978-1844167777
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dan Abnett is a novelsit and award-winnig comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Abnett's best offering, November 5, 2011

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Brandon Martinez (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prospero Burns (The Horus Heresy) (Mass Market Paperback)

So I just finished this title and here are my thoughts.

Pros:
Its Horus Heresy fiction. Helps flesh out the universe a little better. Some good action scenes. At times Abnett's writing is fantastic. A semi interesting story with a decent protagonist who does develop over the book. Big book for pricetag.

Cons:
Story doesn't really get going until roughly page 300. I had to learn about 20 new words (made up words for that matter) in order to understand what was going on. Story is not really about the attack on Prospero (Attacking Prospero gets about 20 pages at the end of the book). Seemed biased to make me dislike The Thousand Sons, who I feel in love with after reading their novel. Lots of editing errors, including serious errors involving the story IE: People being in 2 places at once etc...

Gray Areas:
Not that much action for a 40k book.

I'm giving this book 3 stars, if I had to give the book a rating after 300 pages it may have been 1 star. But the last 150 or so pages help the book make up alot of ground.

I do not recommend picking up this book unless you can force yourself to get through 300 pages of boring non story related material before you get to the good stuff.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Totaly not to the point..., August 24, 2011

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Jon S. Milbrandt - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prospero Burns (The Horus Heresy) (Mass Market Paperback)

I give this 2 stars about 65% through the book Abnett still had to ge to the part with the Space Wolves taking on the (o I forget wut legion) I nearly threw this book, because it was SO slow and it didnt cover things very well and you dont understand anything about the begining until like 75 pages into it. Unless ur a a hardcore Horus Heresy fan (not WH40k, cuz wher all that = ) buy it. but if not dont... its too slow and it doesnt get to the point even about ha;f way through, making it seem Abnett left little room for the main plot...

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh great and mighty Dan Abnett....., January 27, 2012

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Overfiend (Ithaca, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prospero Burns (The Horus Heresy) (Mass Market Paperback)

...I must be the one at fault, there is no way that you, the mighty Dan Abnett, could write a less than fantastic book. I must have been so foolish to think that one as mighty as you could follow in another authors footsteps (Graham McNeil who is well know as second only to Dan Abnett)a write a mirror image tale of the "Thousand Sons". How foolish we were, but luckily you amazing wit (and humor?) shone through our ignorance and gifted us with such an amazing tale. A whole story from an insignificant peon's point of view of a great legion and earth shattering event such as the burning of Propero, with no point of view from any of the sons of Russ or from the mighty Great Wolf himself, how marvelous! Oh great and might Dan Abnett please forgive me!!! (prostrating myself)