Die Stimme des Mars (Warhammer 40,000)

Iron Hands #2

by David Guymer, Ralph Hummel (Translator)

Seit zehntausend Jahren war die Stimme des Mars eine geheime, doch mächtige Position im Eisernen Rat. Doch die Ambitionen, die während der Häresie des Horus gesät wurden, beginnen Wurzeln zu schlagen. Eisenvater Kristos erhält den Auftrag, die mysteriösen Apparaturen der Eldar, bekannt als die Morgenrot-Technologien, zu entschlüsseln. Noch bevor er das erste Element auf Fabris Callivant bergen kann, locken die Eldar die Grünhäute auf die Knight-Welt. Doch Kristos erkennt, dass nicht nur die Xenos ihn an der Erfüllung seiner Pflicht zu hindern versuchen. Seine eigenen Brüder wollen sich die Kräfte dieser Technologie zunutze machen. Klan wendet sich gegen Klan, Iron Hand gegen Iron Hand und der Eisenvater steht vor einer schweren Entscheidung. Geschrieben von David Guymer

WARUM DU DIESES BUCH LESEN SOLLTEST
Im Nachfolgeroman zu ›Das Auge von Medusa‹ versuchen geheimnisvolle Mächte den Orden der Iron Hands zu spalten und mit dunkler Magie zu korrumpieren.

Genres: 40k, Novels

396 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2018

About the author

David Guymer is a freelance author, PhD in molecular microbiology (which still comes in more handy than you might think), and tabletop warlord based in the Yorkshire East Riding. He has written for Black Library, Marvel, Aconyte Books, Asmodee, Mantic Games, Cubicle 7, Creative Assembly, and Mongoose Publishing.

Reviews

[Blaze Nimmons]

Slow to start, but quick to finish

I had trouble getting into this novel, despite enjoying the first book in the series. However around the midpoint it really picks up.

Pacing wise the book could use some work, but as a world building effort for a niche of 40k lore it is awesome. The Iron Hands are as foriegn as they are to other chapters. Guymer has put forth a good effort in readjusting several bits of contradictory lore about the Iron Hands to make it all fit together

[Mark Anthony]

The level of insight into what makes the Iron Hands tick and their contrast with the Hospitallers are unparalleled and the sheer intrigue and convoluted politics of the Imperium are fleshed out really well. David Guymer can take an illustrious chapter of machine-men who are inimical to the qualities of humanity and whose actions are repulsive and make the reader turn page after page to read more.

[Devin]

Irritating that there was no indication on the book cover that this was the second book in a trilogy(?)

[Zoot]

The scope and scale of the tragedy surrounding the Iron Hands begins to get fully revealed in this book. The story takes a long and circuitous route through the first book and a half, but once you hit the halfway point of this one, it's full steam ahead.

There is so much to unpack here it deserves a full-on essay, but the level of depth Guymer gives the sons of Manus; their homeworld Medusa, their complex relationship with the Mechanicus of Mars, their internalization of the death of their gene-sire Ferrus Manus - all hits the reader full force by the end of this book.

It's tragic that there likely won't be a final installment for this series that was just hitting its stride. Hopefully, the story of the Iron Hands and the feature characters from this tale will continue in the years to come.

[Steve]

A touch better than the first, but still hard to feel anything for the Iron Hands.

[Manos]

An excellent insight into the Iron Hands chapter's psyche and internal power struggle. Pity that there is not a conclusion of the trilogy on sight in the forseeable future.