It potentially highlights the sameness of the series but there are enough differences to intrigue different people. Weiterhin ist ein Auftakt zur neuen Salamander-Story (recht lang und gut) enthalten, eine Motorradjagd mit den Imperial Fist sowie ein Team Up der Black Templars mit den Sororitas. The Labyrinth' by Richard Ford - A group of the Sons Of Malice traitor marines undergo a test to join an elite group. This is very straightforward tale on crimson fists helping imperial guard while on their own mission. Out of the 8 stories I liked the ones that stood out the best and that made this anthology worthwhile were: Honor Among Fiends, Fires of War, Labyrinth, Headhunted, And They Shall Know No Fear, and, One Hate(details on each in my updates).

This anthology features an Ultramarines series tie-in by Graham McNeill featuring the Iron Warrior Honsou, a prequel story to the Salamander series by Nick Kyme, a tie-in to the Imperial Fists series by Chris Roberson and Deathwatch and Night Lords stories, setting the stars ablaze with the fury of the Space Marines.Oh there is the inclusion of Huron BlackHeart the Tyrant and it was interesting to see that every chaos space marines present on that reunion bow to him. Die Geschichten sind von unterschiedlicher Länge und Qualität aber ein Kauf lohnt sich definitv für alle die Marines mögen - ob nun die "guten" oder die "bösen".

However, many of the stories were a little disappointing for me, not really capturing the essence of the Adeptus Astartes.The other stories, those tales of chaos marines or filler of the Salamanders were really well written, and interesting, but not what I expected in this collection. Each of the stories follows marines of either the Imperium or Chaos as they fight their foes and complete their missions. So a Black Legion's Scaevolla has a grudge against the imperial fists and so he hunts and kills them.

Peter Fehervari's Nightfall, like Ford before him, wrote a fun and exciting piece of horror, but it leaves you with too many questions that begin "why. The story is very well written and is both entertaining and funny in places with some nice action scenes and a good plot. There are some stories about loyalist marines slicing their way through hordes of xenos and so on, but quite a few stories are about Chaos marines, initiates etc.Machen wir es kurz: im WH40K Universum angesiedelte Romane, welche sich um Space Marines drehen, gibt es wie den sprichwörtlichen Sand am Meer – und das hier rezensierte HEROES OF THE SPACE MARINES ist eine etwas über 400 Seiten lange Anthologie mit Stories um diese Elitekrieger. Headhunted' by Steve Parker - A Deathwatch kill team boards an Ork spaceship on a mission to assassinate the warboss. The story has a nice plot with some good twists and a nice cameo from Huron Blackheart, one of my favourite 40K special characters. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.