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The Master of Mankind (Volume 41) (The Horus Heresy) [Paperback] Dembski-Bowden, Aaron

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At last, the secrets of the Emperor’s project beneath the Palace will be revealed, and you’ll get a closer look at the Emperor Himself than ever before.

Much of this is down to the pacing and presentation, with some of the flashbacks and historical qualities robbing necessary details from the actual war itself. Whether it's a stable, civilized world or a festering tomb of a planet bowing to the Ruinous Powers, it can always stand out. There's some suggestions that the Emperor realises they might be linked, or even bend a mind towards, the Ruinous Powers, but does nothing because their failings would supposedly be offset by their killing potential. The novel isn’t that long – at 400 pages or so you can rampage through it over a night or two with a beer or a glass of red. Nor is this likely done out of sheer favouritism (see the works of Karen Traviss for an actual example of that) as his stories seem to be there to explore the universe rather than simply stamp down his views.Really, the finale is easily one of the best since Helsreach, and retains three of the best last-second twists of any Black Library book. To most people he is a godlike being, someone they can barely look at for more than a handful of moments. This is best seen throughout the climactic battle, and no matter the scale of the engagement, every shot, punch or stab carries with it a sheer weight and impact few books can match.

At one point somebody posted the entire story there, so you only need to find it in its specific tab as eventually everyone realized what they had done and deleted it (thankfully nothing fully vanishes from wiki sites like that, so the story's still there in one of the archived pages). We see in it reflections of his actions on Terra, his moments leading the Thunder Warriors and even a fleeting look into his earliest days. The interpretation here is of a narrow minded extremist who was always going to fail, and who would do anything to see his dreams brought to fruition. The eBook edition includes integrated illustrations of characters and events from the story, and an afterword that places the story in context within the series.While The Master of Mankind delivers on this by giving us some of the closest and most personal looks at this larger than life character, it also gives us so much more, with a rich cast of supporting characters and peeks into other elusive aspects of the setting, including hints and twists that tie in more closely with the 41st millennium than the 31st. Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a titan of the Warhammer 40,000 setting, writing some of the most well received and loved books, enshrining himself safely alongside the likes of veterans Abnett, King, and McNeil. The Emperor is the collective reincarnation of all the shamans of Neolithic Humanity's various peoples, the first Human psykers.

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