Were there any alternate universe tropes that you considered using besides the coffeehouse AU and the role reversal that you eventually had to scrap? Does that strike you as the case? And I think in every single one of those AU slots, there is a huge hint. Following a series of suspicious deaths, the Houses assume that one or more of them are hunting the others. Of course, some things are better left dead. Is it romantic? Never! She didnt succeed in creating a world where Gideon was never alive and so her death never hurt Harrow. With that said, the stuff we get in this book about the Lyctor mythology is incredibly rich, and Harrows reactions to the Emperor-God/John are one of the deepest wells of irony in the whole book. It wasnt that I was unaware of the events going on in my life, but it was like they were happening to somebody else. For some readers of the novel, that death is just the latest iteration of the infuriating Bury Your Gays trope, in which lesbians are introduced in popular culture only to be immediately killed off, never left with a happy ending of their own. Get up The other relationships we see between necromancers and cavaliers arent always: Magnus and Abigail are married, but theres also an uncle and nephew pair, and Camilla and Palamedes are in some kind of deeply platonic love. We have at the heart of this mythology this relationship between the necromancer and the cavalier. WebGideon mined enormous amounts of tension and humor out of the contrast between its lurid goth world and Gideons straightforward it looks like a sword, I want to fight it worldview First of all, theres the problem of tone. (Plus, trying to summarize a plot this complicated any other way is a fools game.). When Gideon and Harrow at last reveal their final secrets to one another, rendering themselves vulnerable and knowable to one another, they do it in a pool. Harrowhark might win and prevent the Ninths ultimate demise, but only if she can keep Gideon at her side She gets to be not only Draco in Leather Pants. But now they have to depend on each other to survive because, of course, the minute everyone arrives at Caanan House (the creepy mansion), all communications are blacked out, all the fancy space shuttles they came in are pushed into the sea, and they are told there's a very good chance that all of them are going to die, because there's something horrible hidden inside Caanan House. And heres another thing I noticed: I think Muir got much more confident as a writer between book one and book two. But I also have a hard time imagining that if I were talking about a scene between a male and female character where theyre standing in a pool and exchanging their darkest secrets, and then holding each other in their arms and saying, one flesh one end, and I said, This is a love scene, that people would be like, But have you considered that maybe theyre long-lost siblings? So Im wondering if youve experienced any of the same hesitancy to read that relationship as romantic in the reception to the book, and whether it surprised you. Google Pay. Related: Which kind of necromancy is coolest? The one thing that you have to retain is being able to celebrate you and your achievements, not as contrasted to anybody elses. Thats sort of a betrayal in some ways, and its a sacrifice in other ways. Is it going to be explicitly romantic? The AU both soothes and hurts, and it intensifies your emotional engagement with canon. But Muir uses the claustrophobia and narrowed focus to fine purpose, concentrating the action around a series of increasingly torturous tests (which serve both to hook the plot along and give some baseline explanations for the entwined science, religion and necromantic magic on which her universe depends) and the relationships that develop between the limited cast of characters particularly Gideon and Harrow. I was writing that scene, and I was like, from your point of view, this is just sex. If you buy something from a Vox link, Vox Media may earn a commission. It was as if the person I seemed to be wasnt real, because, well, she wasnt. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Constance: Muir is definitely taking more risks in book two. In these surrounds, Gideon rewarded herself with a little plastic bag of porridge. I assume well get the Final Answers as to whats really going on in the world of the story, but I almost want to see Tamsyn Muir do more off-the-wall things like setting her epilogue in what appears to be, like, 2014 Boston. But it also gives Harrow some cracks in her facade of bitchiness, a weak spot in her armor that she is working furiously to compensate for. Constance Grady: I have a hard time working out exactly how I feel about volume two of this trilogy. But its clear that Harrow has also chosen this particular strategy because she is unwilling to acknowledge or accept Gideons death, because her grief at that idea is so overwhelming. Just who is telling this story? What tropes did I miss in this basic overview? What about you, Emily? In this amazing novella, Molly is a young girl whose blood brings about murder. Placing us in this gothic setting is a good indication that the mysteries of Lyctorhood will be darker than any of our main characters expect they will be and more, its a hint as to the exact nature of their darkness. I want to start by looking at this incredibly complex mythology youve created. When you tack all of the above onto the fact that Harrowhark is a religious zealot who spends much of the book growing at least a little bit more disillusioned with the god she ostensibly serves, well, this book is Emily catnip, even if I cant explain half of what happens in it to anybody. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. It becomes clear that Canaan House is designed to prevent any one of the Nine Houses from succeeding without collaborating with or combating each other. Ive had to guard myself a couple of times, being like, Im going to reach into something more feminine for X character or Y character. Why the hell am I limiting myself? He should run again. They make quick progress in the trial due to Harrow's exceptional skill in necromancy and Gideon's perceptiveness and combat skills. She only succeeded in creating a world in which she dissociated herself from her own grief, so that in the end Gideons death hurt her even more than it would have otherwise. Oops. How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the earth, The surprising lesson from a century of Oscar scandals. The point is that the two of them, despite being trapped in someone elses narrative, are going to blow up that story just by being them. Sometimes I imagine Muir as a cackling mad scientist in a lab, grabbing beakers labeled enemies to lovers and in space and that incel meme about studying the blade and swirling all their contents together. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. As anybody else who was born in and around 1985 will know, a lot of the stories we got fed, even in a time where women were out in the battlefield more, was that at the end of the day, being angry and fighting actually wasnt great. That all came about precisely because of the storyline I wanted to tell. The survivors battle throughout the House, but Cytherea is apparently invincible. That Harrow is so careful. Theres a compelling argument to be made that the relationship between Harrow and Gideon is too toxic to root for or romanticize, and thats one of the major critiques Ive seen of the whole Locked Tomb trilogy. Harrow's family died by suicide upon discovering her heretical trespass; Harrow has been burdened with secretly leading the Ninth House for years. WebGideon is not a fireman, that has been tragically excised from the mythology. [22] It has received endorsements from authors V. E. Schwab, Charles Stross, Robin Sloan, Warren Ellis, Martha Wells, Amal El-Mohtar,[23] Kiersten White, Annalee Newitz, Genevieve Cogman, Kameron Hurley, Django Wexler, Yoon Ha Lee, Rebecca Roanhorse, Richard Kadrey, Rin Chupeco, Max Gladstone, and Brooke Bolander. So I wanted to ask about what your goal and thought process was when creating such a tone for the story.. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Our conversation about the book covered second-person point of view, the trauma of dissociation, incredibly bad puns, and more. Sign up for our newsletter to make sure you dont miss anything, and well see you in 2021! Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth. See our ethics statement. Theres a hell of a lot of Bible stuff in there too. The remixed genre tropes of Gideon the Ninth, explained. Harrow kills Cytherea before falling unconscious. Oops. Like, if Im going to make these references I have to get the Bible in there somewhere? In victory, her world has turned to ash. In Rowe's interview with Muir, Muir said that the "irreverent tone" was intended "to balance out the horror aspect and some of the heavier, more Gormenghastian stylings. So one of the central strands of this novel is attempting to navigate this disparity and, potentially, abusing it. "[7] Adam Rowe in Forbes also commented on Muir's incorporation of "2019 language tics." Or is it the other way around? Harrow initially treats Gideon as a liability and disappears for long periods of time to work on her own, leaving Gideon to wander Canaan House and interact with the other Houses. Please enter a valid email and try again. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. We know by the end of Gideon that Harrow and Gideon have become the most important people in the world to one another, but they never make any explicitly romantic declarations of love. Counting five full breaths to mark time, Gideon Nav, Cavalier of the Ninth House, came following behind, praying that her unfamiliar sword wouldnt tangle in her robes (p. 69). Even if those depictions ended up making me sad. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. If you buy something from a Vox link, Vox Media may earn a commission. So in the first editor pass, my editor was like, Nah, this is not Harrow, people are going to immediately see. But then again, I see lines that are so plainly obvious that got left in. Except here, Harrow is the black-gowned, black-cloaked, black-hooded daughter of the Ninth House rulers, a powerful bone magician who sweats blood and can kill you with a flick of her wrist. The surviving Houses turn to bribery, blackmail, and unsteady alliances. The very brief but packed and tragic Act 5. WebGideon depicted here as wearing paint appropriate to her role as cavalier primary, which probably has its own specific Ninth name, like The Skull in Ice-Choked Chains or The We end up seeing the reverberations of this final culmination of the relationship playing out across the mythology, where the necromancer devours the cavalier to become a Lyctor. In The Immortal King Rao, a tech billionaire becomes king of the world, RSVP now to talk Gideon the Ninth with Tamsyn Muir and the Vox Book Club, The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory, OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us. The way that the cavalier-necromancer relationship plays out between the Eighth House, with Silas and Colum, is totally different yet again to the way that it plays out in the Sixth House with Camilla and Palamedes. Anytime Molly bleeds, a new version of Molly sprouts from her blood and tries to kill her, and so the real Molly has to murder them. If youre chatting here, Ill ask that you avoid spoiling Harrow the Ninth. Harrow acknowledges Gideon as her friend, and they pledge a new alliance: "One flesh, one end.". And I think that actually helps mask some of the Gideon energy. Gideon and Harrow have hated each other since childhood, but its also clear very early on that they would die for one another, and they react with disproportionate protectiveness whenever the other one is in danger. WebGideon has been abused and degraded by everyone in the Ninth house while simultaneously being told that she must be absolutely loyal to the house that despises WebGideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Its like, Gideons a fireman! Gideon is not a fireman, that has been tragically excised from the mythology. And its been incredibly fun to just let loose. All of which is to say that I am absolutely here for the bag of tricks in this book, and perhaps most especially that long extended spree of fanfiction tropes we get as the script Harrow was running in her own brain to hide Gideons existence from herself starts to break down. Constance: Oh man, I loved the reveal that the narrator was Gideon so much that I stood up and fist pumped. The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. Support our mission, and make a gift today. But I also appreciated the sheer plot-iness of Harrow, in a way that resonated with the books deeper themes and Harrowharks journey. They seem to be a little divisive. But for someone who should theoretically be an easy mark for (ahem) lesbian necromancers in space, these books sure took a long time reeling me in. In reality, they are barely squeaking by; the Ninth House has no money and no resources, and Gideon isnt anything close to a properly trained cavalier. Its there that our central cast of necromancers and cavaliers set to work trying to solve the puzzle that the Emperor-God has set before them: namely, how to turn the necromancers into the mysterious beings known as Lyctors. It is so explicitly terrible. Where do you fall. Everything came from the story template. One day, word comes down from the Undying Emperor (a big-G God in every important sense of the word) that each loyal house will send a necromancer and their "cavalier primary" (kind of a champion bodyguard and executive assistant) to a huge, decrepit and seriously old mansion full of ghosts and monsters, where they will face a series of tests to become the new lyctors to the Emperor. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? Instead, Harrow pushes us away with both hands as we read. I adore Harrow and will travel to the ends of the Earth for it. The morning started as every other morning had started in the Ninth since the Ninth began. So as we turn our attention from Decembers discussion of Gideon the Ninth to Januarys discussion of Harrow the Ninth, I wanted to talk to Emily about what makes Harrow the Ninth work so well for her. I am in the second camp, and so is Voxs critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. What As someone who always roots for hyper-competent women, I am torn between Abigail, Camilla, and Ianthe. In Gideon, Harrow is a literal bloody mess a lot of the time, caused by the strain of performing bone magic. She intends to "kill [him] and burn his Houses" as part of a revenge plot, starting with the remaining heirs and cavaliers. So that helped a lot. Shes got her own trauma to grind, and that trauma touches off chaotic ripple effects everywhere. And we see that iterated over and over again in the different characters at Canaan House. But at the end of the day, what I will say in terms of Gideon and Harrow is that it is meant to be homoerotic. But I kept it in. Enemies to lovers, And Then There Were None, and the other tropes of Tamsyn Muirs genre-busting space opera. In the Eternal Record of great opening lines, that one is up there. Each person just has to wait, trying to work out which of their number is killing them and hoping theyll be the one who survives. Who knows? "[9], Muir consulted with writer, HEMA martial artist and fencer Lissa Harris on realistic depictions of swordfighting and combat. In many ways, Nona is like other people. Gideon the Ninth is notable for its writing, which mixes gothic horror with contemporary humor. Perhaps especially the next one well be looking at. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Being a lyctor is cool. Its some hideous imp of mischief. We were all told pretty ceaselessly about what achievement looks like. WebGideon the Ninth seems to jam together every standard genre in publishing - I've been describing it as a science fiction horror fantasy murder mystery, all of which it is. Im just going to make this as completely stupid as I want to be. So many have attempted it and so few have succeeded! Gideon is the literal daughter of God, and Harrow is well, she knows something very important, but we dont entirely know what it is yet. WebThe shades of the Ninth were deep and shifty; they were bruise-coloured and cold. ', 'Jade War' Is A Magical, Operatic Crime And Family Drama. To me it was enormously cathartic to break out of the confines of Harrows trauma and get to spend some time with straightforward Gideon and her nonstop quips, and it helped make the rest of the book feel more balanced. If this were a cheesy 80's teen sex comedy (which, in some ways, it kinda is), Harrow would be the icy, blonde rich girl with the big house and perfect clothes. And in book two, you are hopefully slapped in the face first thing with just how ferociously Harrow hates herself, and the violence with which she does. Muir acknowledges that her writing "includes useless memes and jokes for the reader that nobody in my universe would get. It brings her to life like a fingersnap. Emily: I will be totally honest: For as much as I love the Locked Tomb books, I find the world-building so trope-y that I kind of gloss over it. In The Immortal King Rao, a tech billionaire becomes king of the world, Raven Leilanis wickedly smart Luster is the Vox Book Clubs February pick, Why Eli Lilly is voluntarily capping insulin costs at $35 a month, OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us. Personally, I dont think Muir is playing into the Bury Your Gays trope so much as she is setting herself up to subvert it. You get a lot of magic systems that are more intuitive and less about scholarship. In The Immortal King Rao, a tech billionaire becomes king of the world, Susan Choi talks process, teenagers, and the infamously tricky ending of Trust Exercise, The campaign to make insulin less expensive just scored a major victory, OpenAI wants to build systems smarter than us. Ive written before that part of the purpose of AUs in fanfiction is to heighten the pain of particularly sad storylines in canon. And my problem is that Ive got a very Catholic taste. The trilogy as a whole is quite chaste. So now were going to take some questions from the audience. WebSPOILER Thoughts on NTN [Discussion] I just finished up Nona The Ninth and I greatly enjoyed it, despite some issues with pacing at the start I liked the characters they introduced, particularly Nona herself and the various supporting characters along with the depictions of the returning characters. Joe Biden is pretty good at being president. You live forever. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. In these surrounds, Gideon rewarded herself with a little plastic bag of porridge. Shed just want the outfit, and she wouldnt even want the outfit, cuz like, the biceps. Oh, this is so fraught, though. The combinations really shouldnt work, but somehow they do. So being able to repudiate that and give a middle finger to the a womans place is actually the peacemaker and the heart of the group has undeniably set the tone of the books. "[26] Despite this, Gideon the Ninth won the 2020 Locus Award for Best First Novel. Im sorry. The Ninth Necromancer requires a swordsman. (My fan theory: The seemingly random Harrow the Ninth epilogue is actually a flashback to a 21st century planet Earth, just before John blew everything up, and were going to spend at least a little time in the past a.k.a. I have multiple chronic illnesses and feel like I will never achieve anything. "[8] Jason Sheehan's NPR review said of the novel's genre: "Gideon the Ninth is too funny to be horror, too gooey to be science fiction, has too many spaceships and autodoors to be fantasy, and has far more bloody dismemberings than your average parlor romance. Its just Harrow making the name stupid. I never stopped delighting in them, but I would guess a bunch of people found them tiresome. God, what came first? WebGideon the Ninth is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Locked Tomb Series, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public It's not at the top because it's a little weird, a little long, a little clunky and oddly punctuated. ", "From Skulls to Swords: Dissecting the Cover for Gideon the Ninth", "Gideon the Ninth is about lesbian necromancers in space. [30], In 2021, NPR listed Gideon the Ninth and the Locked Tomb series as one of the 50 best science fiction and fantasy books of the 2010s.[31]. Gideon had no hope. Theres a common tendency to judge queer stories by a different standard than their heterosexual counterparts: sapphic romances are often considered After one such prolonged absence, Gideon goes looking for her, and with the help of the Sixth House finds her in a hidden basement containing a plethora of necromantic experiments left by the Emperor and his original group of Lyctors. Harrow is trapped in an endless trauma loop thanks to a whole bunch of events, stretching all the way back to being raised by two people who would kill hundreds of babies just to give her a leg up. But Nona's not like other people. And in her head, shes just like, God, I hate you so much. Its with that kind of energy that Gideon is able to slip beneath. And again, thats something that theyre all made to be hinting at: bigger ideas that Harrow hasnt even quite been able to figure out herself. Oops. It is the first book in The Locked Tomb Series Maybe Im gonna sink that battleship like crazy. And that is why Ianthe is [over the top] and terrible. Its just me going ham. Do you think Gideon is coming back in the end? And its more about what character beats I wanted to hit, and about what plot beats I wanted to hit, that informed the mythology. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. But I felt like the coffeeshop AU was slightly too much. We asked Muir to explain herself, and she obliged. But you see a Bible reference and are like, Oh, well, the author is well-learned, or, The author is extremely Catholic. You come by the classics. You can read it below, and dont forget to RSVP for this months live Zoom conversation with Tamsyn Muir herself. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. The resultant tension is part of what animates this trilogy, and its mysterious backstory, and even the romance between Gideon and Harrow. Thats also a very sexy trope that girls dont necessarily get to embody. If you feel really sad that Black Widow died in Avengers: Endgame, you can write fanfiction where shes a coffeeshop barista in no particular danger at all, and youll get catharsis from that but it will also remind you of exactly how she died, and how painful that storyline was to experience. Plus, since the premise of this whole thing is lesbian necromancers in space, death doesnt strike me as a very final obstacle for the lesbians. Canaan House is in a state of luxurious decay, and its pocketed with secrets. Trained to fight, she wants nothing more than to Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original. The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth She answered the Emperor's call. Something Gideon Prime? Go nuts. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. I wish that I was writing into the void, where I could just be interrogated for what it is, not for what people bring into it. But I really wanted a magic system that was scholarship-based, that was something that you had to earn. And again, thats something that goes even worse in book three. Later, we learn the narrator of the book is Gideon herself, which is at once incredibly predictable and solidly satisfying. Large chunks of the novels first half are given over to Harrow and Gideon (mostly Harrow) attempting to convince the rest of their party at Canaan House that they know what they are doing and that they come from a house as wealthy and powerful as anyone elses. Theres an arranged marriage alternate universe! And if youd like to keep the fun going, sign up for the Vox Book Club newsletter and stay tuned for the discussion of our February book, Raven Leilanis Luster. Its not entirely clear if a sacrifice on this level can ever be purely free, and much of the rest of the trilogy is given over to trying to work out the implications. It appears to be the only surviving structure left on the planet everyone calls The First House (most likely a post-apocalyptic Earth, but we dont know that for sure yet), and it is in ruins. Its for you. So for todays Vox Book Club discussion, I wanted to go through some of the foundational tropes in Gideon the Ninth and talk about how they work and why. Enemies to Lovers is a classic romantic trope, the basis of everything from Pride and Prejudice to this years Netflix series Never Have I Ever. Below are discussion questions to guide your conversation on Gideon, either in the comments below or in your own communities. Also a fan of liminal spaces. In these surrounds, Gideon rewarded herself with a little plastic bag of porridge. But where many books would sensationalize this brush up against dissociative identity disorder, Harrow takes it deadly seriously. "[6] In her review for Vox, Constance Grady commended Muir's ability to slide her "voice seamlessly from Lovecraftian gothic mode into a slangy contemporary mode without ever undercutting one or the other for cheap comedy. The chicken or the egg? But Im curious about how you think about them when you were embedding them into the web of the story. One of the things thats really impressive to me is how carefully its delivered. Harrow is haunted by the hundreds of innocent deaths involved in her creation. Its just a page. It is deep when you expect shallow, raucous when you expect dignity and, in the end, absolutely heartbreaking when you least expect it. 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