Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal, a cold-blooded figure of monumental avarice and ambition, could be seen as Reverend Pat Robertson. She does not believe that the Machine-God actually exists. To use more familiar figures, Adept Zeth, a champion of scientific exploration and eternal skeptic, could be seen as Dr. During this historical period of the Imperium, there is no single interpretation of the Omnissiah, the so-called Machine-God worshipped by the Mechanicum. Finally, Dalia Cythera, a lowly transcriber drafted by Adept Zeth to construct the Akashic Reader, deals with her visions of a dragon and a secret long buried in legend and deception. Fabricator-Generator Kelbor-Hal wants to open the Moravec caverns, sealed by the Emperor’s command. Adept Koriel Zeth wants to build the Akashic Reader, a device capable of giving someone unlimited knowledge. The novel includes many competing plots (and competing plotters). Only Graham McNeill could pen a compelling narrative based on supply chain logistics and portraits of the mechanically modified denizens of Mars that humanize them. The novels functions as an institutional history, similar to earlier volumes that chronicled the origins of a specific Space Marine legion. The Mechanicum is one of the pillars of the Imperium of Man. Centuries ago, the Emperor and the Fabricator-General created a union between Terra and Mars. In the novel, the readers encounter the adepts and forge masters of Mars. This reviewer happily reports that Mechanicum brings the series back up to fighting trim. Since then, the Horus Heresy has had its ups ( Legion by Dan Abnett) and downs ( Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon). James Swallow’s Flight of the Eisenstein (Book 4) was a taut thriller with crisp writing and wonderfully orchestrated space battles. The first three novels functioned like a self-contained trilogy, chronicling the Warmaster Horus and his descent into heresy and madness. The trio wrote the first three novels of the Horus Heresy series. The other members of the trio include the hyper-prolific Dan Abnett and Ben Counter. Graham McNeill is one of the Black Library’s “dream team” writers. The Horus Heresy series continues in Graham McNeill’s epic Mechanicum.
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