With release of Oath of Moment, we saw the return of one of the best characters from the first five books of the Horus Heresy series. We also saw him recruiting people into what would become one of the Inquisition’s true military forces.

In Oath of Moment, he came. He saw heretics. He slaughtered them himself. Now we see him return. He had been recruiting for a couple of months and has built a nice little force.

Flight of the Eisenstein was the first book in the Horus Heresy series to not follow the Luna Wolves. It also introduced a lot of great characters. Garro: Oath of Moment is an audiobook that follows one of the few survivors of loyalists that were in the traitor legions, who was also one of the main characters in FotE.

It was bound to happen that the Horus Heresy series would have a book that almost exclusively focused on the behind-the-scenes aspect of war. Nemesis is that book.

The question is whether or not it actually lives up to the work that the majority of the series had laid out. To put it simply, it does but it could be so much better.

You could be reading Deus Ex after playing it next year. See, the Deus Ex series has inspired James Swallow to write a book, Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect. And Del Rey Books has announced that said book will be out sometime next year.

The timing of Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect couldn’t be more perfect. At the moment, the forthcoming PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game Deus Ex: Human Revolution has a tentative March 2011 release date. So since Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect has a 2011 release date as well, players could end up having it in time to read after completing the game, to enhance their knowledge of the Deus Ex world and experience. Or, perhaps it could even be reading before Deus Ex: Human Revolution, so people could read it to get themselves hyped up…

For the first time since Tales of Heresy, we are delving into a book of short stories that are following the legions of the Adeptus Astartes (better known as the Space Marines).

Space Marines are inherently fun. After all, they’re living walls of muscle and armor. They excel at causing complete death, destruction and mayhem on a battlefield and that’s before any of the really big guns (like Dreadnoughts) come into play.

However, there are things that make them harder to write about.

In a weird way the books came across as more hard hitting than some of the video games that have been released, like Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior or early Warhammer 40k PC games.

The action was a lot more hectic. The characters were more realistic. There also happened to be a lot more honesty in the books than in early Warhammer games and Fire Warrior. Through the development of the story you’re witnessing the history that is merely mentioned in the games. You are seeing the heroes and villains of the galactic civil war that grew from Warmaster Horus’s decision to betray the God-Emperor.

Click through for a recap of the Horus Heresy novels…