The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions by Alan Merrett
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Book Reviews of The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions
Book Review: I have never purchased such a marvellous production for just $30
Summary: 5 Stars
High quality pages. Hundreds of great pictures most of which can as well be posters if they were bigger. Exciting passages. Two wonderful short stories by Graham McNeill. While reading the book you turn a page, read the text, look at the pictures, turn the next page, look at some more pictures, sometimes read small passages that are scattered throughout the page. Every text is a whole, It gives you the information, the atmosphere and never continues to next page. The text of the next page may summarize the previous ones, may continue telling the events in a chronological fashion, may give detailed information about something mentioned in previous texts or describe something new. This book is a collection of pictures and texts related to the Horus Heresy. It is consistent enough. But the flow of the texts may not be as swift as something written as a whole from beginning to the end. Nontheless there is not a single text that is not exciting. The Amazons's price for the book is incredible. Even with the intercontinental shippin fee added, the total price is less than the original. Maybe for $50 you may hesitate to buy the book but for $30 hesitation is the time you lose before you hold this incredible work. You may not have the time or energy or money to read a long novel or rulebook, to play a tabletop or computer game, to buy or paint miniatures. However this book will satisfy your need for the atmosphere and excitement of WH40K without the effort time and money needed by the other means of experiencing ýt. It is why i take the book everywhere i go despite its weight. Yeah, i think the only bad thing i can say about this massive work is its resulted weight. A weight that befits its quality.Book Review: Beautiful omnibus book, beautifully bound at a great price!
Summary: 5 Stars
This omnibus of the four previously published Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy artwork books is just beautiful and at a list price of $50, compared to buying four separate books at $30 each, is an absolute steal. Even better, Amazon.com at the time of this writing is selling this book at a significant discount, making it even harder to pass up.
The hard binding and cover of the book are of good quality and the quality and amount of the color pages filled with fantastic artwork will satisfy any fan of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 (often called 40K). The text of the book concerns the story of how Games Workshop's world of 40K came to be through the ancient events of the Horus Heresy. Fans of Space Marines and Chaos Marines alike will love the terrific full color artwork and those interested in GW's background mythology for 40K should find plenty to love here as well. Personally, even though I am a fanatic collector, converter and painter of GW's miniatures for the 40K tabletop game, I am very selective about buying their non-game related background books; I buy only a very select few such books. However, after one first-hand look at a copy of Horus Heresy Collected Visions I couldn't resist owning my own copy of this high quality volume. Every page is filled with images of mighty heroes and foul monstrous villains to delight the eye of the reader. Any 40K or science fantasy fan would enjoy this book, which contains a small bit of additional material not found in the original four art books it contains. It is tremendous fun leafing through the pages as the artwork and text magically transport you to the fantastic war-torn world of Warhammer 40,000. Highly recommended!
Book Review: A Must Have for the Heresy fans
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is great for all the Horus Heresy fans out there. Both beginning readers and hardcore players.
It contains:
- About 400 pages with probably more than 800 great works of art.
- Background stories about all the Primarchs, their legions, the Adeptus Mechanicus, etc.
- A detailed storyline of the Heresy events from "Horus Falls at Davin" to
"The Siege of Terra" and "The Final Battle" between Horus and the Emperor.
I am a Warhammer 40K beginner and have read 4 of the Horus Heresy books, though I prefer to read
the Gaunt's Ghosts: The Saint. However the Horus Heresy and this Collected visions book are much
more colorful and contain a lot of depth when it comes to artwork and history. I have spent hours
surfing on the web looking for Heresy artwork, but always came across the same low-res pictures.
This book has got hundreds of high quality pictures bundled together.
I showed this book to a friend, who is a hardcore 40K and he loved it and kept on telling me
background stories with each new picture. After 2 hours I had enough and left him with the book,
which he read for the rest of the afternoon.
The one thing I missed in this book are the covers of the Horus Heresy novels, which I really like
and kind of belong in this book. But these can be found all over the web.
Book Review: Excellence.
Summary: 5 Stars
Frankly, this is outstanding work by the Black Library. With Black Library editions of 40k works hitting ridiculous prices aftermarket, it is a good idea to snap these up when available. If you snap up this one, the idea is even better as this book goes into background and behind the scenes of the Horus Heresy novel series.
However, I have to say I am somewhat dissapointed that it does not cover the wealth of campaigns only given a chapter in some of the novels. Seeing artwork displaying the early Death Guard in the storming action at the start of Flight of the Eisenstein would have been cool. But, this is about the Horus Heresy, so I suppose it makes sense.
Overall, the binding is excellent and the page paper is nice and thick. The writing touches on some previous concepts mentioned throughout the 40k omniverse, but manages to not be a dry rendition, nor expressly repetitive. The book's art, the central focus of the book, ranges from mediocre to outright beautiful. Indeed, some of the pages are so well done it really brings a great atmosphere to the read. I just wish BL did more bumper volumes like this and would consider reprinting out of print volumes. Especially covering insanely-priced OOP volumes like Xenology and the Sabbat Crusade.
Book Review: A Fine Black Library Work
Summary: 5 Stars
I have bought quite a few Black Library produces before, but this one impressed me. There are three reasons why. Not only if this a beautiful, hard bound collection, but it was also easy to get and was not overly priced. The key to Black Library products are the latter two.
Most products are either impossible to find, and you would have to fork over hundreds of dollars to get them, or come in strange sets that cost an arm and a leg from the publisher. Sometimes you just want a book that is a book, and this book is exactly that. The beauty is inside the cover, not in extra junk that you just don't need like most collections.
Now, beyond the price, which is a steal comparatively, it is a wonderful book that explains the "Horus Heresy" storyline based on the Warhammer 40,000 Collectible Card Game, "Horus Heresy". Don't worry if you don't know anything about the game, because the storyline is maybe 20% of the book and scattered about in easy to read and easy to understand plot pieces. The book is devoteed to the expanse of beautiful art work that was inspired by the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The plot pieces are only secondary and help give background to the various moments of sci-fi history that go along with the art.