Let's Read the Horus Heresy 24: Legacies of Betrayal

I remember much of what he said even now, but we all learned quicker from example than words.

 - Brotherhood of the Storm, Chris Wraight, in The Horus Heresy: Legacies of Betrayal

Apparently Black Library were reworking Unremembered Empire when I was going to buy it and it wasn't available, so I skipped ahead to the Legacies of Betrayal anthology.

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The book kicks off with Chris Wraight's White Scars novella Brotherhood of the Storm. I've actually been reading about Mongolia and seen several movies set there recently, so I had mixed feelings about White Scars fiction. But I liked this, and I'll have to consider reading the full-length novel.

After the novella, there's a whole swathe of short stories, some significantly shorter than usual. I won't go through all of them, but I'll give some examples of what's in this anthology.

 - several decent Iron Hands stories; I can't help but feel that all these badass Iron Hands stories are trying to make up for how stupid McNeill made them look in Fulgrim.

 - a nautical story by Guy Haley, featuring a sailboat and the Alpha Legion.

 - two genuinely good Gav Thorpe war stories where he's in a proper old-time Epic mood: Honour to the Dead is just excellent, and the other one has a Capitol Imperialis.

 - Aaron Dembski-Bowden with Butcher's Nails, another superb story of Angron, Lorgar, Khârn, Lotara Sarrin and the Ursus Claws.

 - a Shakespearean monologue from Horus, by John French

And lots more, none of it bad.

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Shockingly, I think I'd recommend reading this anthology. There were lots of good stories in there.