Gideon the Ninth

[jack]

I reread Gideon the Ninth and half way through Harrow the Ninth. I posted a lot of recap and musings on Facebook:

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10104135617416710&id=36912084

Should be public to everyone, but you can always comment here if you don't use Facebook

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[jack]

What's up with Gideon's immortality? She survived the nerve gas, it's hinted she only survived Harrow draining her for the second house lyctor trial because she couldn't die, in the short story her corpse doesn't rot.

But we haven't seen any reason for that. Because of her genetics? The other stuff hadn't happened yet. Did she inherit immortality from John? Is he GENETICALLY immortal?

It also occurs to me, Lyctorhood involves swapping eyes or souls... does perfect lyctorhood mean swapping eyes without swapping souls or swapping eyes and souls without killing one body? Do we know? Is the emperor's current body the body his soul started with, or did the driving soul swap with whatever body Alecto started with?

The emperor and alecto are both described as "can't die" though we don't know if that's true.