Book Club Book #132: Dead Men Walking by Steve Lyons

Every two weeks we read a new book in the WH40k universe and discuss it on our podcast. We invite you to read along with us and join in on our conversation via comments, Twitter, email, or vox cast.

For this episode, we’re taking a trip in the wayback machine to celebrate the re-release of Dead Men Walking by Steve Lyons. You can purchase it at Amazon, Black Library, or Audible.

From the back of the book:

When the necrons rise, a mining planet descends into a cauldron of war and the remorseless foes decimate the human defenders. Salvation comes in an unlikely form – the Death Korps of Krieg, a force as unfeeling as the Necrons themselves. When the two powers go to war, casualties are high and the magnitude of the destruction is unimaginable.

Questions to ponder after reading Dead Men Walking:

• Did you like the book?
• What parts stood out to you?
• Were you emotionally invested in Gunthar’s journey throughout the book?
• How does Arex’s journey compare? Was her story as compelling?
• Does the nature of the Krieg allow their commissars to be more “human?”
• Colonel 186 is not the first commander we’ve seen for the Krieg. Did you like him?
• If we look at Steve Lyons’s Krieg series as the whole, how does this book fit in with his later books?
• Is this the most 40k of WH40k books?