thebymster Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Has any one ever listed all the HH books in order of when the events in each book took place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 It's possible but I don't think anyone has. Happy to be proven wrong though. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrin Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 I think I've seen an image posted on here of a timeline that another user created, can't find it though. It's slightly difficult because a lot of novels overlap each other. Like with The First Heretic, the first part of the book is set roughly 40 years (possible retcon aside) before the Heresy, but by the end of the book they've gone past the Dropsite Massacre. So on a linear timeline TFH would be both before and after the first 3 novels. The timeline I saw was almost like a side ways bar graph, with the timeline on the top axis and each novel with it's own box occupying the relevant dates that it covers. Actually since I'm bored, I'll see if I can chuck them in order based on the earliest point that the book covers. This is from memory so be kind The First Heretic Descent of Angels Fulgrim A Thousand Sons Prospero Burns Horus Rising Legion False Gods Galaxy in Flames Flight of the Eisenstein Battle for the Abyss Mechanicum Fallen Angels Nemesis The Outcast Dead Deliverance Lost Know No Fear Fear To Tread Angel Exterminatus Scars Betrayer Vulkan Lives Unremembered Empire Vengeful Spirit The middle grouping kind of happens almost at the same time I think? No idea about Damnation of Pythos. Anyway, yeah that's a very very rough guide just going from the titles of the books and what I remember about the content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrafficCustodes Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 'Damnation Of Pythos' begins in the middle section of your list, I think. It's set some time after the Dropsite Massacre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Yeah, there are a couple of time references in it, but it's within the space of a couple of years from memory. Not long at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebymster Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Perrin, that's amaze-maze! I've read some. I started with The 1st Heretic cos it's title suggested it was the 1st! It laterally hard work as I didn't get ANY references and didn't know who anyone was! Them I found a Wikipedia list of when they were published and loved reading the first three books. I then expected the 4th book to carry on where the 3rd left off... I've been working through them in order of publication and strugged with that too. So I've just started reading the ones people recommend or avoiding the ones people tell me are rubbish, more like! Now I think I'm going to start 're reading some so that they make more sense! I read Prospero Burns before 1000 sons for eg... any way: thank you so much for this time line, it helps my CDO massively- that's like OCD, but in alphabetical order!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrin Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Oh, I didn't realise you wanted a list to read them in Glad you find that the chronological order list helps, but I would definitely recommend reading them in published order if you can at all. They should make more sense then. The first three published are kind of a self-contained trilogy, but after that most novels are stand-alone. You need to view it more like a setting than a series I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Haha yeah I thought you meant when they occured, rather than what order they were published in. Truthfully, after quite a few, it matters less so, but easier often to stick to the chronology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebymster Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Ha I DID mean what order they occurred in! I just got a bit disheartened reading a couple that I found quite rubbish and irrelevant so started skipping around... thanks again guys for your time. Off to finish 1000 sons, not sure where I'll go after that... I'll decide later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrafficCustodes Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 The problem is that so many of the books cover different amounts of time and double back on themselves, and unfortunately a lot of them don't include Imperial calendar dates - you have to work that out yourself from context. So the kind of list you're after would read like "Read the first 100 pages of book A, then read the first and last chapters from Novella B, then read Short Story C in collection D, then read only the bits of book E in italics because those are flashbacks, then and only then read the next 300 pages of book A." Some ambitious person needs to do a list like that (possibly they already have). I read 'Horus Rising' first... but because I was borrowing them from the library, I didn't manage to read 'False Gods' or 'Galaxy In Flames' until I'd read almost every other Horus Heresy novel published so far (they were up to book 18 at that time, I think). That was confusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battybattybats Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 "the earliest point that the book covers"Slight spoilers for Mechanicum and Prospero BurnsMechanicum includes the Emperors arrival on Mars before the Treaty of Mars that founds the Imperium. Prospero Burns includes flashbacks to and memories of armed conflict on Earth marking the end of Unification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrafficCustodes Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Haha, well... I forgot about the short story 'Athame' apparently going back to pre-history, and if we're including flashbacks, Oll Persson has recollections of ancient Greece... doubt we'll go back further than those... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perrin Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Ha, yeah I missed out the anthologies deliberately, too many stories to cover in all. I meant the earliest point the book covers in any detail and for a significant period of time, not counting flashbacks or memories Otherwise it'd be a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymell Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 Has any one ever listed all the HH books in order of when the events in each book took place? I'm certainly giving it my best shot! https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Tymell/the_horus_heresy_series__a_reading_guide/ Naturally, it's a work in progress, and plenty of them aren't set in stone, they're more open and placed where I think they fit/flow best, but there you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I couldn't remember if this has been posted yet, but may be of use: http://www.blacklibrary.com/our-ranges-horus-heresy.html "We've arranged them in a suggested reading order, which broadly reflects the timeline." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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