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2024OnlinePanel 17Saturday 28th SeptemberWarhammer 40k

Cyborg Monstrosity: Disability, Augmetics, and the Limits of Humanity in Warhammer 40k

Abstract The Imperium of Man is an explicitly eugenic state, pursing its obsessive campaign of purifying humanity at all costs. Both those with conventional disabilities and the crip-coded psykers and mutants are routinely either purged from the gene pool or are “cured” through super-science that erase disability as an identity category, including via the elimination …

2024Keynote SpeakersOnlineSaturday 28th SeptemberVictoria Hayward

The Jungle Made Us: An Author’s Reflections on Writing Catachan

Catachans and Tyranids are two of Warhammer 40K’s most identifiable factions. But what is it like to write them? Using the example of her debut novel, Deathworlder, Black Library author Victoria Hayward shares her creative process to writing these iconic factions, her approach to writing Warhammer 40K, character development, world-building and writing the first full …