![]() What was the genesis for the book’s look at alchemy? Is alchemy interchangeable with magic? And he’s built to do exactly what he’s doing right now. But he’s not a nice person, he’s not a good guy. He’s set up to be the ultimate American showman. ![]() James Reed is inspired, if he is inspired by anyone specific, by P.T. What about the inspiration for James Reed, a charismatic Frankenstein’s monster of a villain? This book follows them trying not to become the incarnate doctrine, but that’s the only way they’re going to survive. So Rodger and Dodger are the embodied human equivalents of, respectively, language and mathematics. ![]() I think everyone human does a little bit, because it makes them more relatable. I liked the idea of embodying cosmic forces. ![]() It is inspired by a piece of Pythagorean philosophy called the Doctrine of Ethos, which holds that, between them, language and mathematics make up the entire universe. ![]() Seanan McGuire: I’d figured if I could pull it off -because it was not an easy book to put together it is possibly the most complicated thing I’ve ever written- I would wind up having a lot of very serious review outlets talk about it, and I wanted to make them say, “In this book, Rodger and Dodger do something, and yes, that’s actually their names.” And I got my wish! ![]()
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