Imaginary Numbers
core novel 2020 InCryptid
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.23 (3,953 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780756413781 |
Synopsis
Sarah Zellaby, adopted cousin to the Price family and a telepathic cuckoo, returns to the wider world after years of recovery in Ohio and must confront her own nature as a member of a predatory species. Reuniting with her cousin Artie, to whom she is close, Sarah finds that her return draws the attention of other cuckoos whose intentions toward her and the Price family are far from friendly. As tension between the cuckoo species and the Prices builds, Sarah is forced to weigh her own survival and sense of self against the safety of the family that raised her, setting the stage for a wider confrontation between her birth kind and her adopted one.
Where it sits
- Universe: InCryptid
- Series: InCryptid core; position 9 of 15 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seanan McGuire
Notes
- From the series record (InCryptid): Multi-generation cryptozoologist family (the Prices/Hayleighs) vs. the Covenant of St. George; DAW. A 16th novel is anticipated by some third-party listings but is not announced on the author's own bibliography page, and is not registered (Article 2). McGuire has also published 50+ further InCryptid short stories/novellas (anthologies, bonus content, Patreon); deliberately deferred as Expanded Canon out of scope, per the same scale-driven deferral this project already applied to Oz's Famous Forty continuation books.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series InCryptid: position 9 of 15: previous That Ain't Witchcraft (2019) · next Calculated Risks (2021)
Sources
← InCryptid dossier · All universes
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