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Five Questions: Graham McNeill

January 2017·p. 19

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Graham McNeill recalls the unexpected scale of the Horus Heresy series and the pleasure of writing changing characters such as Perturabo. Magnus offers the challenge of an extraordinarily clever protagonist and opportunities for arcane research, while the writer deliberately leaves Horus’s experiences on Molech unresolved.

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