Editing Aaron Dembski-Bowden (section)

==Common Themes==
Through his novels you can notice a handful of common themes, listed below:

*He likes Chaotic Neutral(ish) characters.
**He is hence great at writing Robert E. Howard-styled characters (how is it that he hasn't written any Conan pastiche?).
*He enjoys writing in first-point-of-view, although he can work in third-point-of-view.
*He mostly portrays Space Marines in his novels, although he has a few works with non-SM as well.
*If there is a ship at one of his stories, expect him to make the ship be controlled by a young woman. He says he tries to balance the testosterone with female mortal characters, which naturally draws the usual accusations of [[SJW|diversity quotas]], [[waifu]]-shilling and the like.
*He tends to write events through the protagonist's perception, and thus has to spend lots of time telling people not to take the opinions of said protagonist (for example, anything said by or about the Emperor in MoM) at face value.
**Considering the average [[neckbeard]]'s tendency to erect anything written as holy unalterable canon, it is a necessary reminder. Unfortunately ADB seems to have forgotten this himself, as he treats his own writing as holy, unalterably canon that nothing else can ever contradict or oppose.
*He seems to have spearheaded breaking the classic image of the Emperor, turning him from a grimdark, space-fascist [[Sigmar]] into an emotionless Lex Luthor - this is ''still'' [[Grimdark|the approximation of "good"]] in 30k and 40k, mind.
*He considers the 40k franchise [[Heresy|fated to be ultimately won by Chaos.]] Despite all the anti-Chaos stuff in 40k. (It would be funny seeing him getting charged to write some stuff about [[Age of Sigmar]].) Seriously though, with the Eldar, the Tyranids, Orks, but ''especially'' the Necrons, and all that anti-psyker and anti-Warp tech everyone else has, not to mention the non-chaos gods of the warp, as well as the infighting of the Ruinous Powers themselves... Even with the Great Rift cutting the galaxy in two, with all of that arrayed against them, Chaos needs a boost to have a real chance. To say nothing of the C'tan.
*He is quickly approaching [[Dan Abnett]]'s record of number of beloved characters murdered. Seriously. Reading his books, especially the Horus Heresy ones, is like watching him rip your heart out and chew on it while he coos: "Was it good for you too?"