WH40k Book Club Episode #182 – Bjorn: The Fell-Handed by Justin D. Hill
Oct 23, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Dreading becoming a Dreadnought The post…
Oct 23, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Dreading becoming a Dreadnought The post…
Jen BosierHostCarrieHost
I really liked how he handled the dreams of the dreadnoughts, especially Bjorn, like where their mind goes.
Because we've always seen that in books where they talk about how the dreadnoughts are dreaming, that they're basically asleep, right? They've kind of gone off into their own world.
And one of the things that always struck me about the dreadnoughts in various books that we read is sometimes they would talk about waking up a dreadnought and the dreadnought didn't want to wake up.
That they would be like, well, you know, we're going to try to awaken him, but we don't know.
And this book, I thought, did a really nice job of putting like those little pieces into place of this is why the dreadnoughts might not want to wake up.
He's got a few years worth of memories to go chasing down, right? I thought that was really fun.
So what I liked about it was when he was awake and his mind would just go because he started thinking of other things.
And like he would just suddenly say stuff, you know, almost like that Alzheimer's grandpa in the corner.
They'll just say something.
And you're just like, yeah, OK. He's just like, don't don't let me die on my back like a turtle.
They're like, oh, yes, of course not.
Which was kind of sad that he just would get these thoughts and he has to get them out like immediately.
Or he'd start talking about things that weren't even there because he's reliving something else.
And I think also just what was so sad is that what he would say every single time he had to go to sleep, you know, wake me when Russ returns.
I'm going to be the first to greet him.
It's just so sad.
Like, just the existence is sad.
It's like, for
I really liked how he handled the dreams of the dreadnoughts, especially Bjorn, like where their mind goes.
Because we've always seen that in books where they talk about how the dreadnoughts are dreaming, that they're basically asleep, right? They've kind of gone off into their own world.
And one of the things that always struck me about the dreadnoughts in various books that we read is sometimes they would talk about waking up a dreadnought and the dreadnought didn't want to wake up.
That they would be like, well, you know, we're going to try to awaken him, but we don't know.
And this book, I thought, did a really nice job of putting like those little pieces into place of this is why the dreadnoughts might not want to wake up.
He's got a few years worth of memories to go chasing down, right? I thought that was really fun.
So what I liked about it was when he was awake and his mind would just go because he started thinking of other things.
And like he would just suddenly say stuff, you know, almost like that Alzheimer's grandpa in the corner.
They'll just say something.
And you're just like, yeah, OK. He's just like, don't don't let me die on my back like a turtle.
They're like, oh, yes, of course not.
Which was kind of sad that he just would get these thoughts and he has to get them out like immediately.
Or he'd start talking about things that weren't even there because he's reliving something else.
And I think also just what was so sad is that what he would say every single time he had to go to sleep, you know, wake me when Russ returns.
I'm going to be the first to greet him.
It's just so sad.
Like, just the existence is sad.
It's like, for
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