Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright

        Of armours vast and woman lone I sing...

Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright is a giant robot yuri space opera. It’s about awful warrior-nobles and towering engines of violence. It’s written in verse.

Features:

• Sweeping scope.
• Poetry that’s at least competent.
• Shameless borrowing from Ideon, Simoun, Gundam, the Aeneid, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Baldios, and a general steeping in robot anime and 1300 years of English verse.
• Technically it is gay?

Testimonials:

• ‘Read this if you like gay women in giant robots, warlords who get comeuppance for their bloodthirst, and the complex feelings when those are the same thing.’ — @SunshineMoonRX
• ‘by almost any measure the most ambitious and inventive SFF poem to appear for a long time’ — Helen McCarthy
• ‘girls will say “I know a place” and take you to see the horrors of the Underworld. this too is yuri’ — arienai.gay
  
• ‘One of the best mecha anime of 2024 is an epic poem’ — Crunchyroll News
• ‘the language of mechs flows so naturally into verse, as if coming home to its roots’ —BokuSatchii
• ‘A giant robot saga in a poem was not something I knew I wanted, but what can I say; this was very good.’ — @TsuzukuCL

Notes on content:

• The restless dead
• Obliquely mentioned transphobia
• Animal sacrifice

The poem is available for FREE or on a pay-what-you-want basis, as a PDF—with my preferred typesetting—or as an EPUB. (To download it for free, just click ‘No thanks’ on the payment interface that comes up when you hit Download.)

Anyone paying $9.99 or more can also download the ‘new game plus’ edition with marginal commentary. This is for those who've read the poem, like it, and want notes on sources, techniques &c; it’s not an enhanced version, and I don’t recommend it as your first experience.

If audio is easier for you to access than text, I have recordings of the whole poem in live performance on Twitch, listed in this directory post.

The talented digital artist Szkin created this project's cover image, taking inspiration from the boar's-tusk helmet design described in Iliad 10 and independently encountered in archaeology.