Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire

On 9/30/24 15:54, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/27/2024 8:03 AM, BillGill wrote:

On 9/26/2024 5:59 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/22/2024 12:58 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Just finished yesterday
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"Aftermarket afterlife" by Seanan McGuire. this is an novel of a series about a groups of scientists who attempt to preserve cryptid life forms from dragons to boogeymen. They are heretics and escapees from the Covenant of St.George which as you might guess is quite interested in making dragons extinct. They are also the object of worship by the Aeslin mice which talk a lot. I believe that they pretended death and escaped to North America where they do their best to protect the strange creatures most of us ignore. The Covenant in this novel attacks the Dragon Nest in New York City but only kill a female dragon. The male dragon is safe but one of the family members is injured and her husband is killed. Now the main POV here is of one Ghost named Mary Dunleavy who as explained in the story is the Family's babysitter and they can call on her in the dase of distrees. Oliva is a 5 year old human child living in the Dragon nest and Mary rescues her with the aid of Sarah, a cuckoo (not a bird) who has the power of teleportation. And the story goes on from there with Mary assuming the role of a general in protecting her family for which she has been baby-sitting for over 100 years. All in all a very satisfy read.
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     The background remark are intended for a person who is
not reading the series currently.  I try to keep the SA of
the Team Amiga mailing list well entertained with notes
about this sort of thing and manga.
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     bliss

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Bummer, my cousin's MMPB does not come out until February 25, 2025 which I have ordered.  Are you reading the ebook or the hardback ?
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https://www.amazon.com/Aftermarket-Afterlife-Seanan-McGuire/ dp/0756419727/
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And the next book in the 14 book series comes out in ebook / trade paperback on March 11, 2025.  I would guess that the MMPB will be out in 2026.
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Lynn
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I ordered my copy yesterday.  I didn't ask what format it was
but I guess I will be getting a hardback.  I'm not sure that
Seanan McGuire is worth the hardback price, but I didn't ask
so I will get it however.
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Bill

 I just do not have shelf space for hardbacks.
 Lynn

Aw Lynn I can only sympathize with your plight.
I have decided myself to conduct a winnowing of my
paperbacks and maybe some manga (which are paperbacks) so
that I do not have them double stacked or towered. This is
from about the last 69 years of my life. I lost all my
SF magazines from the 1950s when I left home. I stopped
reading via subscriptions in the 1970s when hard times
hit my situation. I picked up a few in the first year
or so of Covid-19 restrictions but the shop where I bought
them in downtown SF decided to shut down since the workers
were no longer coming into San Francisco and buying anything
from that shop which was called "Fog City News". I spent
more money there on chocolate than on magazines and before
the restrictions I only would buy the Anniversary issues of
SF magazines but Linux magazines which I now consume digitally
as a result of Covid-19 restriction which kept the paper
copies from being moved across the country.  The biggest pain
was the closing of the SF Public Library.  Eventually you
could use the Library web site to reserve and request books
then go to the entrance with people behind plexiglass who
would take your card and bring you the books you ordered
then return the card.  Before Amazon over-powered the real
stores I had a SF powerhouse located about 3 blocks away.
San Francisco had really great book stores and used book stores
in the downtown area. But I would go to Oakland where a
particular shop took some of my prizes in exchange for enough
money to buy a burger at the prices of today.
bliss
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