The Emperor's Soul & Legion - Episode 17 w/ Kirk Hamilton

We read two novellas this month, The Emperor's Soul is really good! Legion is the craziest thing we've ever read for the show (and maybe off the show too). Huge thanks to Kirk for guesting on this episode, you can find all his information here. https://kirkhamilton.com/ Next month we'll be discussing The Rithmatist and the End of A Memory of LightContent warnings for this episode: ableism, Abu Sayyaf, assassination, atheism, betrayal, bleeding, blood magic, body horror, body modification, bombing, braindeath, broken bones, Catholicism, Christianity, classism, death, discussion of sexuality, enemies to lovers, genocide, hallucinations, imperialism, imprisonment, Islam, Israeli/Palestinian war, insanity, kidnapping, maiming, mind control, misogyny, Mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, Navy Seals, necromancy, racism, religious conversion, religious extremism, religious wars, Richard Dawkins,  self harm, settler colonialism, slavery, stabbing, sterilization, strangulation, suicide, suicide bombing, suicide by police, terminal illness, therapy, tokenism, undeath, wounds and infectionThings MentionedDave (1993) dir by Ivan ReitmanThe Princess Bride dir by Rob ReinerThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanGladiator (2000) dir  by Sir Ridley ScottThe Matrix (1999) dir by The Wachowski SistersYour Name (2016) dir by Makoto ShinkaiMiniature PaintingGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily HenryQuote Investigator Article about the Quote I attribute to Emerson https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) dir by Mel StuartCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlDisco ElysiumThis show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. PatreonDiscordInstagramBookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)