I genuinely feel ashamed about ever talking about the opening trilogy as the phenomenal first founding of this saga. It truly is the the opening quadrilogy with Flight of the Eisenstein closing the initial chapter of the Horus Heresy spectacularly that is essential and exquisite. I often think many of the things that break me on Isstvan III are only in Galaxy in Flames, but it is Huron Fal and Temeter in the middle of this book that has had me absolutely bawling every (at least four) times I've read this.

This book is bloody brilliant and seriously one of Swallows crowning achievements of his great, if vacillating in quality, work with Black Library. It's incredible how many things are still just being introduced and expanded upon, which are handled wonderfully. Swallows dynamic writing in dramatic and action moments is impressive, as is his ability to get really weird and gross with the Nurgle stuff without going too far.

This continues to be a mythic foundational narrative with avatars of archetypes playing their parts, but with a level of individuality and immediacy that I love from these kinds of works.

I had planned to go back and give False Gods, Galaxy in Flames, and this a more in depth look as I did with Horus Rising, as well as taking a break to catch up on some other reading, but I am absolutely on the grips of the worst pain, fatigue, and conversion symptoms flare up I've had in years, so I can barely think or move a lot of the time.

Plan is to charge on with the saga using the suggested order from https://www.heresyomnibus.com, tackling each omnibus in order which, means I have a few stories to catch up with before getting to Fulgrim.

If you've made it this far, yeah you've read some of the best books in this series and from Black Library and the quality might start to vacillate quite wildly from here on, but there is so much more phenomenal stuff here and I'm excited and determined to cross the Rubicon. ( )

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2023/08/review-of-flight-of-eisenstein-by-james... ( )

由於故事與前一集部分重疊，有部分緊張的場景就變得不太緊張
從這集之後，開始有集數不代表時間前後順序

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實際ISBN：978-0-85787-935-6 ( )

Después de ser testigos de la tremenda matanza sufrida por las fuerzas imperiales en Isstvan III, el capitán Garro de la Guardia de la Muerte se apodera de una nave y pone rumbo hacia Terra para advertir al Emperador de la traición de Horus. Sin embargo, la fugitiva Eisenstein resulta dañada por los disparos enemigos y queda a la deriva en el espacio disforme, los dominios de los Poderes Siniestros. ¿Podrán Garro y sus guerreros sobrevivir al Caos y llevar su advertencia hasta el Emperador antes de que los planes de Horus se cumplan?

What a good book ( )