Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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MIDNIGHT BLUE-LIGHT SPECIAL open thread!

To celebrate the release of Midnight Blue-Light Special, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, you've had time.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
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professor

March 6 2013, 09:32:05 UTC 4 years ago

I have been sitting on my comments because I had the privilege of winning one of the ARCs.

*deep breath*

OH MY GOD CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW MADHURA UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IMMUNE TO CUCKOOS. LET ME REPEAT THAT. IMMUNE TO CUCKOOS. THE DEADLIEST PREDATOR (CURRENTLY RESIDING) ON EARTH.

MIND = BLOWN

(Although, not presumably, immune to the cuckoo simply ordering anyone not immune in the vicinity to tear the Madhura apart if the cuckoo feels threatened. Still, RESPECT.)

I am really hoping that we see more Madhura in future books, and their connection to cuckoos is explored. Between the comments in the book about Madhura "molts", and the comments on the field guide about how Madhura do not lactate and feed their young a honey-like substance, I am thinking the field guide entry is going to get updated from "could be insects maybe?" to "probably are insects, and may not originate from this dimension."

herefox

March 7 2013, 20:52:37 UTC 4 years ago

I'm wondering if it's sort of like a ant/aphid symbiosis. Or started that way anyway. If you read the field guide it mentions that the cuckoos in Verity's dimension are essentially insane...the ones at home (while they still may be/probably are violent from hints there) live in a group mind sort of environment...they eject the ones that threaten the sanity/peace of that group mind.

So I'd venture to guess the Madhura are from the same dimension since the cuckoos here aren't likely to form a hive as they're all basically sociopaths. Or possibly from the dimension that the original insane cuckoos were exiled to though given they're sounding more like insects I think the first is most likely.

(waits for Seanan to laugh evilly and decline to state) ;-)

ironed_orchid

March 12 2013, 17:11:49 UTC 4 years ago

I like your line of thought here, agree with your predictions about how Seanan will respond, and look forward to when she picks up the Madhura Cuckoo relationship, which could be at any point in the series. Y'know, right about when it has slipped our minds.