Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives with Mike Brooks

There are a lot of people calling Space Marine 2 -and by extension Warhammer 40,000- a male fantasy? Why are men fantasising about something so comprehensively horrible? Why did Games Workshop take all the naughty stuff out of the grimdark future? Writer and game developer merrit k joins me to discuss these questions and her name game, Fledgling Manor!Play Fledgling Manor on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/Fledgling_Manor/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Those sneaky bald boys of the 20th were all over the most important parts of the Horus Heresy and they're crazily interesting - so why do they only have three books in the 41st millennium (even if they're all great) and more often than not show up as generic antagonists? Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Knife lesbians! On this episode I'm joined by Black Library author Mike Brooks to talk about how he came to write about the adventures of John Warhammer and his new book Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives.Buy Lelith Hesperax straight from Black Library here: https://www.blacklibrary.com/new-titles/warhammer-40000/ebook-lelith-hesperax-queen-of-knives-eng-2024.html Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The vampire himbos of the Ninth Legion have a new Codex out, and in this entirely unscripted live reaction I do an Epic Based Sceptic Gamer Rant about it. Are the Detachments any good, do I like the new models, is there anything in there about the Lamenters falling down a flight of stairs? Find out here! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are no good guys in 40k, but there are definitely the worst guys in terms of the sheer level of suffering they've unleashed on the setting through being dumb toaster-humping weenies. I am speaking of course of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and how they suck and are bad and awful. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Orks are just silly, goofy guys, right? Bzzt, wrongo: they're a galactic-level threat who could very easily wipe out anything that isn't green if they got it together. This episode covers the War of the Beast, the one time when Orks very nearly won all 40,000 Warhammers. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian Watson's book Inquisitor was the first ever Warhammer 40,000 novel, and it's still one of the strangest. Not afraid to bust it down s*xual style, the book is... divisive. On this episode, I'll talk about it's plot, characters and the strange, strange vibe that makes it unique to this day. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Forget the memes, let's get down to brass tacks: are the T'au actually Communists? Well, we can't really discuss that because the Internet has damaged people's brains, but we can compare and contrast them to Iain M. Banks' The Culture to see why they are probably (definitely) not commies. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Pearce from Wyrd Signal joins me for a deep dive into the history and philosophy of robot ancient Egyptian space-skeletons. Are they too dead or too alive? What does Freud's concept of the Death Drive have to do with them? Are they a little bit queer?Listen to Wyrd Signal here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0xvRvJfphjKCKmY4N8AKX5?si=5d8524cf68034735 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They have fangs, they drink blood, they sleep in coffins... but are Blood Angels vampires? Finding out may mean diving into their lore and the essence of what it means to be das Wampyre, Nosferatu, el... Spookyman. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.