So You Like to Read the Young Wizards Series

I have finished my very first readthrough of A Wizard of Mars, and my immediate thoughts regarding it have been added to my journal. That is mostly a lot of flailing and incoherence, however, so unless you are interested in my ramblings on, rather unimportant.

What is likely MUCH more relevant to your interests are the screencaps that I did using Google Earth's Mars feature. I know I didn't hit up every place Kit, Nita and associates went to on the red planet, but I definitely capped the important ones.

So, for a virtual aerial picspam tour of Mars, click below.

SPOILER HEAVY THOUGH. IN MY IMMEDIATE REACTIONS AS WELL AS AMONG THE PICTURES, SO BE WARNED. GO OUT AND READ THE BOOK AND THOROUGHLY ENJOY IT FIRST!

Also it is very image heavy. Uhh, obviously.


LOOKIT THAT PRETTY PLANET

( ohaithar fake cut! )

This was going to include Rirhath (and by virtue the greater galactic society?) and Demisiv, but considering Wellakh probably wins the prize for being the most complicated planet in the YW universe (at least, that we have sufficient information about. I’m sure that there are many other, much more complicated planets, which we know nothing about.), I left it at this. Maybe I’ll explore greater galactic society more at a later date (like, after AWoM, which could completely contradict me, I have not read it yet).

Because thinking about social structures and institutions and how it all works together is one of those things that I think is interesting (aka, I’m planning to take sociology as my college minor), I thought that I might try a little thought experiment, and take the data that we do have to extrapolate on how other things on Wellakh might work, at least on a very basic, speculative level. I’ve broken it down into the five basic sociological institutions (as given to me by my sociology textbook, though this does not mean that there aren’t other subcategories or even that Wellakh might have more important social institutions by nature of it being an alien planet), but I took out the two that I had the least information about (Religion/Belief Systems and Education), because this post is a monster as is, and would be unmanageable in any other case.

( Warning: Teal Deer Ahead )

So, what do you guys think? Am I a nutter on all counts? What do you think about Wellakh’s social structure, and how it might play out in greater galactic politics and society. What about the two that I left out (religion/belief systems and education)? (I would be totally stoked to discuss these things too, and in fact have saved what I originally wrote on the topics.) I don’t know, this is just stuff that I think about (way too much for my own good), so feel free to engage on one or all of these topics.

What is the awesomest thing to do to your fandom?

Why, cross it over with Jane Austen, of course!

So that is what I have done. Because Dairine and Roshaun are Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy inarnate. Plus, this one comes with pictures!

(It is a truth universally acknowledged that a wizard not on errantry must be in want of a date)

(Tell me if I should take this any further than it has already been taken)