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  • I didn’t look at any of the authors while reading the books, but while reading Thousand Sons (now finished) I was seriously wondering “does this author even like scifi/fantasy?” he has Magnus speaking like you’d imagine some uncaring Hollywood accounting suit would write while pumping out a minimum effort script to cash in on some familiar IP. Magnus and Ahriman alternate between moron and genius as the plot demands. Worst of all, as you said, it’s just boring as hell until the end. Checked the author partway and saw he also wrote False Gods, “yep that makes sense.” Horus is moron for plot in that too, with all the dialogue someone who doesn’t like scifi/fantasy would write to make fun of it.

    I wonder if TS is so fondly remembered just because the last 10% is actually good. The Sons coming together for a final stand despite the betrayal of the Emperor and their own primarch, that’s all super interesting! If it started at the Council of Nykea chapter, TS would be a great novella.