Ultramarines

Legends of the Dark Millennium

by Graham McNeill, Gav Thorpe, Nick Kyme

The Ultramarines are the epitome of a Space Marine Chapter. They tirelessly defend the Imperium from all threats, and uphold the legacy of their primarch. This collection of stories shows the heroes of the Chapter at war.

No Space Marine Chapter can claim so long and glorious a history as the Ultramarines. As one of the original twenty Legiones Astartes they fought many wars under the command of their primarch Roboute Guilliman, and after the dark years of the Horus Heresy it was his wisdom that broke the remaining Legions into smaller Chapters, all the better to safeguard the Imperium from its many foes. Across ten thousand years of unceasing conflict, the Ultramarines have waged war against xenos and traitors of every kind, and their deeds have become legend across the Imperium.

These nine tales of the Ultramarines include stories about some of the Chapter's most iconic characters (including – deep breath – Marneus Calgar, Captain Agemman, Captain Sicarius (several times, including a brand new novella!), Chaplain Cassius, Chief Librarian Tigurius and Sergeant Telion (twice). It's the perfect way to learn all about these paragons of humanity and their many wars to defend the Imperium.

This 368-page hardback includes the following stories:
Catechism Of Hate by Gav Thorpe
Veil of Darkness and Cato Sicarius: Master of the Watch by Nick Kyme
Eye of Vengeance , Two Kinds of Fool, Torias Telion: The Eye of Vengeance and Marneus Calgar: Lord of Ultramar by Graham McNeill
Shadow of the Leviathan by Josh Reynolds
Knight of Talassar, a brand new novella by Steve Lyons

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k, Anthologies, Fiction

364 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Hailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to work for Games Workshop as a games designer. He has a strong following with his novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar, Dead Sky, Black Sun and Storm of Iron.

Reviews

[Sud666 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a collection of short stories. Two are quite good and the rest are ok. An assorted collection of Ultramarines stories. You also run the gamut of foes from chaos to the Orks. If this were a full story I'd take more time to speak of the various ins and outs. This being short stories, I'm not going to waste my time since this wasn't a really great collection nor terribly exciting. The story with the Kreig Death Korps operating with the Ultramarines was rather nice (and my favorite story) since I had heard so much of the Kreig troopers. Nothing bad here, just a collection of Ultramarines stories. It will make a nice addition to my Ultramarines Omnibus.

[Michael Dodd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collecting together stories about the boys in blue from five different authors, Legends of the Dark Millennium: Ultramarines features two novellas, prose versions of two audio dramas, and five further short stories. The emphasis is on named characters, with such Ultramarines luminaries as Marneus Calgar, Chaplain Cassius, Cato Sicarius, Torias Telion and Varro Tigurius shared out across four stories by Graham McNeill, two by Nick Kyme, and one each from Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds and Gav Thorpe.

There’s a good variety of writing styles here, each story representative of its author’s style. They’re not going to change anyone’s opinions on these authors, but there should be something here for everyone.

Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2017/08/...

[Perry]

Had to stop midway through.

Was trying to use this as a springboard into the W40k universe as I was always interested in it but it wasn't quite...gelling.

I went in with the understanding that these would be short stories but honestly? I didn't find them to read that way. They actually read more like...excerpts of short stories, if that makes sense.

A lot of them just sort of started in the middle of nowhere, then stopped at weird and random points where it felt like any sort of climax was left undone or after the climax, it'd peter on for a bit...then sort of stop randomly once I got the feeling there would be more story to be told.

Very odd.

[Alexander Cappellazzo · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some standout stories included, especially the last one. I'd recommend it if you already like the Blue Guys, but most of the stories can be summed up by:

- Ultramarines are fighting the bad guys
- Really big bad guy shows up
- Big thing blown up by Ultramarines because they believe in themselves/Emperor/discipline.

Not unpleasant altogether, but it could be better

[Alexander Blakeley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear, concise and written with just the right amount of flair. These short stories and novellas provide truly enjoyable snap-fire reading.

[Alasdair Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read, some nice short shorts painting little vignettes and a couple of decent longer shorts of blood and mayhem ... what's not to like!

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent collection of Ultramarine short stories.

[Hayley]

I got excited when there was a Krieg unit, which makes me think I should've just read a Krieg book instead.

[jacob sartain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good Ultramarine collection. Its two novella length works and several short stories all centered around a few main characters.

[Keith Hauser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book with a bunch of Ultramarine short stories. A couple of very good ones in there but the last few dragged on a bit. Overall enjoyable.

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent War stories glorifying the Ultramarine chapter.

[Dan Evans]

great book with some good short stories regarding the ultramarines and their ongoing task of ensuring humanity is safe.