Angels of Caliban Homework
As many of you will be aware, my next Horus Heresy novel Angels of Caliban will be released in the next few weeks. I hope the story will work as a stand-alone novel (the mechanics of which I’m planning on doing a blog post about soon), but as it obviously ties in to the wider story of the Heresy, readers might like to catch up on the related works before it comes out. This was a question Civilian Reader asked in a recent in-depth interview, so I’ve re-posted an extract from the interview below.
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You work on a number of series for Black Library. Your next Horus Heresy novel, Angels of Caliban, will be published soon(ish). How would you introduce it to a potential reader?
Angels of Caliban is a story about loyalty and honour, but more importantly how those things can be measured differently. And how those measures may change depending on circumstance. It is the culmination and continuance of several storylines that have been playing out through the Horus Heresy series, including the Imperium Secundus arc, the growing rebellion on Caliban and the ongoing homicidal feud between The Lion and Konrad Curze. But there’s also a ton of stuff about the history and organisation of the Dark Angels legion, an examination on the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate on the Primarchs and all the sort of lore you would expect from a Horus Heresy novel. Oh, and an ending that will drop a few jaws and have some folks just wondering what the hell is going to happen next.
How does it fit into the overall series?
That’s really difficult to answer. On one level it simply follows Unremembered Empire and Pharos, with backstory from Descent of Angels and Fallen Angels. But also ties to lots of other work such as the Thramas Crusade stories Savage Weapons and Prince of Crows by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, associated stories from Imperium Secundus, my work in Call of The Lion, The Lion, By the Lion’s Command (detecting a title theme yet?), as well as the audios Guardian of Order, Master of the First and John French’s Grey Angel. What a tangled web we weave…
You can read the full interview here.
If you want to know how my other titles relate to each other (and those of other authors), check out my Reader’s Guide, which I try to keep up-to-date as and when new books are published.
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