Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Comment to win an ARC of FEED.

And now the time has come. The time to give away an ARC of Feed via that time-honored tradition, the random draw. So...

1) Comment here.
2) Tell me your favorite thing about zombies, if you like.
3) Or you can tell me you're excited about the book. Whatever.
4) That's all.

I will draw a winner Monday morning (April 12th); entries will be accepted until then. This contest is open to all countries, because postage is spendy, but zombies are love. One entry per person, please.

Game on!
Tags: contest, feed, giving stuff away, mira grant, zombies
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galahadgirl

April 8 2010, 16:30:33 UTC 7 years ago

I have no idea what I love about zombies because I'm a zombie newcomer. But I'm excited to find out what I love! I'm going to check out the book no matter what, but the contest sounds like fun.

jjloa

April 8 2010, 16:31:26 UTC 7 years ago

What I like most about zombies is that I can dream that they will show up now and stop me from having to go to meetings all day.

Anyone? Anyone? sigh. meeting it is.

bercilakslady

April 8 2010, 16:33:38 UTC 7 years ago

My favorite thing about zombies is that they aren't trying to kill me. As in, right now, there are no zombies in my office.

I always have to wonder...

nimitzbrood

April 8 2010, 16:34:25 UTC 7 years ago

What happens when the zombies completely take over the world and there are no "normal" humans left?

I even thought about it as a story concept. 100's of years after the last humans are left the zombies "taste" is sublimated because they haven't seen a brain in centuries. They don't age because they're the undead and they don't have good memories because...well...they have no brains.

So they clean themselves up and try and create some new lives for themselves.

Then one day a survey ship of cryo-sleep astronauts returns to the planet. Hilarity and civilization crashing ensues.

Hmm....

blythe025

April 8 2010, 16:36:02 UTC 7 years ago

I am a big fan of zombies and cannot wait for your book to come out.

I'm totally a slow zombie snob (28 Days Later is different, since the infected are not technically the walking dead in that movie). I firmly believe that zombies should shamble along like the rotting corpses that they are. Running zombies, leaping zombies, acrobatic zombies are just wrong to me on a fundamental level. (Though that doesn't mean I would skip a book or movie because of it. I did enjoy Zombieland after all.)

cuddlycthulhu

April 8 2010, 16:36:56 UTC 7 years ago

The thing that appeals to me about zombies is that they're pretty much a metaphor for anything. Hell, the woman who officiated my marriage ceremony used them in her wedding speech as an analogy for marriage.

keristor

April 8 2010, 16:37:01 UTC 7 years ago

I like the idea of your zombies, being all Real Science and stuff. (OK, made up Real Science. SF stuff, anyway.)

I'm really looking forward to the book, I expect it to be awesome like yur other writing.

(OBTW, I haz ARC ov ALH tnx to Magician and am reading it nau. Well, not now obviously because I'm still at work and typing here, but I got through quite a few chapters yesterday evening before persuading myself to get some sleep. Tybalt for the win! Iz mai favrit char (nxt 2 Toby LOL.))

tikiera

April 8 2010, 16:37:56 UTC 7 years ago

The release of Feed is not only on my list of upcoming books, it's on my actual calendar. In case I somehow forget to obsessively check my upcoming book list before buying a book. Just in case.

'Cause zombies and politics are going to be very good together.

Of course we are excited. It's a book. By you. And you are giving zombies. Which won't eat our brains 'cause they are in the book. Which means we will have the brains intact to read the book.

fullcontactmuse

April 8 2010, 16:38:10 UTC 7 years ago

My first and most favorite zombies are Romero Zombies. Don't get me wrong, Boyle Zombies aren't bad, but they're not real zombies, they're just people driven made by the modern plague.

So I sit here, waiting as patiently as I can for Feed to come out.

Now, please?

dianthus

April 8 2010, 16:38:42 UTC 7 years ago

I love their single-minded relentlessness.
And I like to say "Zombie". It's fun. I'll say it some more. Zombie, Zombie, Zombie.

peachtess

April 8 2010, 16:39:09 UTC 7 years ago

Yay contest! Yay zombies!

beable

April 8 2010, 16:40:14 UTC 7 years ago


I love that zombies are not unreasonable - they aren't going to eat my eyes.

arison

April 8 2010, 16:40:18 UTC 7 years ago

My favorite thing about zombies was presented to me by Max Brooks. Until I'd read World War Z for the first time I thought they were interesting and kinda freaky, but not really that frightening. Then I read the chapter from the Australians and realized that they really don't -ever- stop.
And, frankly, I can admire that kind of determination.

Said this before, will say it many times again, totally psyched for Feed. I've got at least five people up north here with me absolutely stoked for it to come out.
We'll take the bookstores by storm. What d'you want on your banner?

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wendyzski

April 8 2010, 16:43:58 UTC 7 years ago

I think Romero broke his own rules in Land of the Dead with that head-hanging-by-a-flap-of-skin zombie. The spinal cord was severed!!!!

(Zombie easter party with a bunch of geeks)

ceosanna

April 8 2010, 16:48:12 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you for holding this contest!

My favorite thing about zombies is that my husband loves them more than I do.

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dimloep_suum

April 8 2010, 16:52:53 UTC 7 years ago

I love and fear zombies for a reason already pointed out above: they used to be us, and in a matter of seconds, if we don't keep our guards up, any one of us could become one of them. Also, they'd give me a reason to carry around serious weaponry (shotguns and machetes, bb XD).

dungeonwriter

April 8 2010, 16:57:33 UTC 7 years ago

My favorite thing about zombies is that they are so considerate to rise from the dead. Funerals are expensive!

jhitchin

April 8 2010, 16:58:04 UTC 7 years ago

I'm excited about the book. I really liked the synopsis I've read on-line and it sounds different and interesting.

anirien

April 8 2010, 17:00:05 UTC 7 years ago

My favorite thing about zombies is that I am not currently under threat of being eaten by one. Also I want the ARC for a friend from England who loves all things zombie related and will be visiting before the book is released.

tsgeisel

April 8 2010, 17:02:02 UTC 7 years ago

I'm commenting! I'm excited! I'm looking forward to a book that's not *only* about killing zombies!

cupcakery

April 8 2010, 17:06:04 UTC 7 years ago

All the mystery of how zombies are made. Is it tetrodotoxin? Or datura?

Wait. Vodou zombies there.

tiferet

April 8 2010, 17:15:22 UTC 7 years ago

It's tetrodotoxin. Well, real zombis. :) There is also a lot of ritual, which, whether or not you believe in the deities responsible or any deities, conveniently also functions as an efficient brainwashing method when performed on someone whose brain is marinating in tetrodotoxin and whose self-concept is slowly melting on account of being conscious and terrified and having been buried and all that, especially if they were brought up to be afraid of exactly this thing happening to them.

cupcakery

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bayushi

April 8 2010, 17:07:37 UTC 7 years ago

I don't want an ARC. Sorry, just don't.

BECAUSE I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT TO JUST BUY IT!

tiferet

April 8 2010, 17:13:03 UTC 7 years ago

My favourite thing about zombies is that you're writing them, because I know way too much about Haitian zombis and I really wish they'd call the ones in horror movies something else! But you can make me like just about anything, and the whole political thriller angle of this is absolutely and totally crazy-making with excitement, as I cannot WAIT to read this book. :)
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