PC079: Marsh Gods

[Listener]

The reading grated on me for its nasally quality in the beginning, until the story picked up steam.

I felt the Crane God had to do a little too much infodump in his first appearance.

This was a classic outsmarting-the-gods story, which is enjoyable, and I did like how Eris-god managed to lie, and how Vaud figured it all out. But it also suffered from a classic fiction trope: the right place at the right time (Vaud happening to overhear the antagonist talking to his private god).

I liked this one better than The Nalendar.

[mbrennan]

Like the previous Listener, I wasn't too wild about the narration at first, but a) it improved b) I adjusted or c) the story ended up being cool enough that I stopped noticing.

I enjoyed "The Nalendar," and liked this one even better.  The bargaining over questions, the laying of groundwork so as to seem to lie -- watching the characters work within the strictures that confine them is always fun when done well, and this was done well.  More, please!

[Hobart Floyt]

Um...

[ckastens]

Another fantastic story! I really enjoyed the mythology of this one, the "old gods" and the "new gods" and their intertwining around the lives of one family.

[stePH]

I require Ann Leckie to publish a book so that I may buy a copy.  Who do I have to blow or blackmail to make that happen?

[Poppydragon]

I require Ann Leckie to publish a book so that I may buy a copy.  Who do I have to blow or blackmail to make that happen?

I second this and will happily provide the cut up newspaper for the blackmail notes 

[Fenrix]

While I enjoyed The Nalendar, this one really expanded the cosmology and made the gods seem quite different from any tradition I'm familiar with. With the Crane, not-Irris, and the Beak we get three very different representations.