Really great and I got ''I wish I thought of that!'' vibes throughout.
Know No Fear was the about 8th Heresy book I read and I was beginning to weary of the formula of the good guys losing. The nihlistic thrill had worn thin and I wanted to some sort of fightback and to my surprise it happened in this novel. Roboute Guilliman is essentially an Elon Musk Tech-bro type who believes fundamentally in the project of western liberalism.
It's cringe, and it will need change, but it was at least the start of something.
Okay, this is now the nth right-wing article that referenced Warhammer 40k lore. Are these books worth reading on their own literary merits, or are they more or less just a meme?
Though I'd guess that I'm about the same age as Morgoth, I was only vaguely aware of Warhammer as "something in the adjacent aisle at Waldenbooks that I wasn't interested in." I think it was a table-top role-playing game, too, or maybe one with miniatures? It's only from Dave Greene and Morgoth's references that I know anything about it.
Whereas for me, the non-prestige books of my youth that offer a portal to reflections on the present era are nuclear-holocaust stories: https://dzholopago.substack.com/p/so-fair
As someone with an unhealthy appetite for pulp and 40k, I always found Mechanicum to be the most engaging book on an individual level out of the entire Horus Heresy run. Something about the way it portrays Mars as an alien world rife with factionalism and mystery, run by men who have rejected their humanity in the name of the most human drive of all - faith - really scratches my brain in a good way. The swift collapse of highly technologised Martian society during the Death of Innocence might have certain useful metaphors to draw on. Perhaps not as wholly applicable to the current moment as other entries, but certainly my favourite
Really great and I got ''I wish I thought of that!'' vibes throughout.
Know No Fear was the about 8th Heresy book I read and I was beginning to weary of the formula of the good guys losing. The nihlistic thrill had worn thin and I wanted to some sort of fightback and to my surprise it happened in this novel. Roboute Guilliman is essentially an Elon Musk Tech-bro type who believes fundamentally in the project of western liberalism.
It's cringe, and it will need change, but it was at least the start of something.
Okay, this is now the nth right-wing article that referenced Warhammer 40k lore. Are these books worth reading on their own literary merits, or are they more or less just a meme?
Though I'd guess that I'm about the same age as Morgoth, I was only vaguely aware of Warhammer as "something in the adjacent aisle at Waldenbooks that I wasn't interested in." I think it was a table-top role-playing game, too, or maybe one with miniatures? It's only from Dave Greene and Morgoth's references that I know anything about it.
Whereas for me, the non-prestige books of my youth that offer a portal to reflections on the present era are nuclear-holocaust stories: https://dzholopago.substack.com/p/so-fair
As someone with an unhealthy appetite for pulp and 40k, I always found Mechanicum to be the most engaging book on an individual level out of the entire Horus Heresy run. Something about the way it portrays Mars as an alien world rife with factionalism and mystery, run by men who have rejected their humanity in the name of the most human drive of all - faith - really scratches my brain in a good way. The swift collapse of highly technologised Martian society during the Death of Innocence might have certain useful metaphors to draw on. Perhaps not as wholly applicable to the current moment as other entries, but certainly my favourite
Dave, what do you think of the Eisenhorn books?