Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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HALF-OFF RAGNAROK open thread!

To celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you've have had time, while others received review copies.

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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acelightning

March 10 2014, 16:19:47 UTC 3 years ago

The things Sarah says, and the way she behaves, while she's trying to reboot her poor bruised brain, remind me poignantly of brilliant, telepathic, damaged River Tam in Firefly/Serenity. It broke my heart every time she lost her math. So far, Sarah and the mice are tied for "my favorite character" in the Incryptid series. (Are we ever going to meet Artie?)

I also see strong parallels between the reproductive habits of Wadjets and Dragons. It grates on me just slightly that, while "Wadjet" was an Egyptian snake-goddess (among many other things, She is the cobra on Pharaoh's crown), the Wadjets in the book are depicted as coming from the Indian subcontinent. But Chandi's personality makes up for it.

tiferet

March 11 2014, 18:16:20 UTC 3 years ago

Do we know if all the Wadjets came originally from the Indian subcontinent? Because honestly, first the Ptolemies, then Islam...Egypt has had lots of different rulers since the days of the goddess Wadjet, and I can see the Wadjets spreading from there through North Africa, Persia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, and India proper would be friendlier than many places, and once you've lived somewhere long enough you do start speaking the language and naming your kids in it.

acelightning

March 12 2014, 09:11:38 UTC 3 years ago

This may also imply some sort of connection between Wadjets and Madhura.