Episode 82: Origins of WH40k, Power Armor Troopers | Warhammer 40k Lore

This week on Under the Hive of Madness Chac and Gobbo take a dive back into the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature, exploring Robert A. Henlien's 1959 Novel Starship Troopers. A novel that lays out the foundation for the sci-fi pop-culture concept of the Space Marine. Later on, our crew takes a look at John Steakley's 1984 novel Armor, which is often credited as being one of the more influential Horror sci-fi stories that predates the Grimdark subgenre.

Under the Hive of Madness is a Warhammer 40k Podcast diving into the Horror and Grimdark elements of the setting, so expect some adult themes, adult language, and more than a handful of Khorney Jokes!

They came at us than in their hundreds, those wicked four-clawed monstrous rats...like the Emperor's Warth called down on the heads of the heretics we were...

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