Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra Book 1 - The Solar War

Seven years of war have led here. Horus and his traitor Legions have finally reached the Sol System, and John French's The Solar War throws open the doors on the Siege of Terra — the saga that brings the Horus Heresy to its end. This is the moment the whole series has been building towards: the Warmaster at the gates, and Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra, standing between him and the Throneworld.

What it's about

Before a single traitor boot touches Himalazian soil, the void above Terra has to be won or lost. Dorn marshals the Throneworld's fleets and fortress-moons while Horus's armada closes in with the confidence of a warmaster who's already broken half the Imperium to get here. It's a story of desperate defences, mounting dread and Legion-scale void war — the opening act of an ending seven years in the making, without giving away how it falls.

Why start here

• The official opening chapter of the Heresy's climactic finale
• Written by John French, one of the Horus Heresy's most consistent voices
• The natural jumping-on point if you've been meaning to catch up on the wider series

By the final page, Terra's outer defences are reeling and the stage is set for the ground war still to come. There's no better place to start the end of the Horus Heresy.

English-language paperback. Carry on the siege with Book 2: The Lost and the Damned, or browse the rest of the Black Library range for more Horus Heresy fiction.