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Cthonia's Reckoning
- The Horus Heresy
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
A Horus Heresy Anthology
In the final years of the Horus Heresy, all eyes were on the Siege of Terra. But out in the vast darkness of space, war raged over a thousand other worlds—including the home world of the Sons of Horus, Cthonia.
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Witness the bitter, spiteful struggle between the Imperial Fists and the Sons of Horus over the Warmaster's home planet of Cthonia, in seven stories from a variety of authors.
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After seven long years of conflict, the Horus Heresy nears its end. But now, as the Warmaster Horus marches on Terra to rip his father from the Throne, the seat of the arch-traitor’s power lies empty. Cthonia, a world once dominated by brutal murder-gangs, is occupied by the Emperor’s praetorians—the indomitable Imperial Fists. For the Sons of Horus, this outrage demands a reckoning. From the towering heights of Traitor’s Gate, stronghold of the VII Legion, to the unending warrens in the planet’s crust, the two sides slaughter one another without remorse. It is a war of spite, and only the most ruthless will rise to claim Cthonia.
CONTENTS
- Sons of Cthonia by John French
- To the Last by Michael F Haspil
- The Gangs Beneath by Gary Kloster
- The Flesh Harvest by Nicholas Wolf
- Traitor's Faith by Noah Van Nguyen
- For Hate's Sake by Gav Thorpe
- Postulant by Chris Forrester
Read by Gary Armstrong.
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- paul sparks
- 19-06-22
The good, the goodish and the good?
To the Last. Flesh Harvest and Postulant are by far the best stories in this anthology and I have to say that disappointed me as I was very hopeful for tales of cthonia and yet so little was given
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- Andrew Chapman
- 24-06-22
Interesting shorts but didn't add much overall
Overall not bad but I didn't really get much of a sense of what was actually going on over the entire conflict and the outcome of the battle. To The Last was an exceptional void battle though and I'd buy the book just for that.
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- hjh_22
- 23-01-23
Interesting but doesn't add to the main story
To the Last is genuinely excellent with arguably the best Horus Heresy era void battle I can recall and the others are fine as shorts but as a collection doesn't really add to the overall story arc. Overall I'd say worth purchasing in a sale (as I did) but otherwise probably not worth a full credit in its own right.
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-06-22
Very good
Just not long enough. It is never enough. Throughly enjoyed all the short stories and I mean short. So keep them coming. More always more. It is never done
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- Jay
- 22-01-23
a surprising good book
went into this not expecting much, but ended up loving it. High recommended to all Warhammer fans
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- Garrsus
- 21-06-22
Adds nothing to the overall story.
Cthonia hasn't really been in the books much and this actively feels like it adds nothing to the story of the heresy and seige. The stories are nice little snippets but the addition of this book adds nothing to the overarching story. No important characters. No plot impacting events. Just fights.
Good if that's what your after but not worth a credit for me.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-03-24
A middling anthology with one standout story
An anthology of short stories around the siege of Cthonia, the second entry is the standout as it explores space battles and tactics which are rarely explored in 40k stories.
However, the other stories are all little more than bolter-porn. suitably written but not as gripping as other stories set in the Horus Heresy
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- CGGREENHILL
- 28-04-24
Quite disappointing....
....so so stories. None really stood out or really added anything. I understand not all the short stories can be gold but this collection at least for me was very weak. As always the narrator of each story were great and did the absolute best they could with the material they had. Quite skippable and for me it didnt add anything to the Heresy or Siege.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-06-22
Bad. Couldn't finish
The only good story was French's. The three stories after felt like they were written by a Star Trek: Discovery fan. Not good enough.
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- Daniel Dumitru
- 14-09-22
Struggled to finish it.
it was dull, and far from the main story line. no special effects, no music, nothing.
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