Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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FEED spoiler party!

Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.

Game on!
Tags: feed, mira grant, zombies
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paradisacorbasi

May 11 2010, 18:36:24 UTC 7 years ago

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

And yeah, people would be in their homes in the cold more too, so they'd be holed up with incubating cases.

To say nothing of thundering herds of Zombie Caribou (which is what I thought of first as a reason to give up Alaska).


cupcakery

May 11 2010, 18:38:39 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  May 11 2010, 18:41:25 UTC

Once there are zombie caribou, it's all over. And that's not even considering zombie wolves. Or zombie polar bears.

(And, even though they're on the opposite end of the globe, the idea of zombie penguins nearly makes me cackle.)

paradisacorbasi

May 11 2010, 18:43:45 UTC 7 years ago

Penguins wouldn't happen - they're not mammals.

But yes, zombie wolves occurred to me, too. But not Zombie Polar Bears OMG OMG OMG.

cupcakery

May 11 2010, 18:46:45 UTC 7 years ago

Alas, the image was too cracky to last.

Zombie bears of any kind = getting the hell out of dodge. No way anyone'll want to live in the Pacific Northwest. Bye-bye, British Columbia.

.... shit. Zombie whales. Zombie blue whales.

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cupcakery

May 12 2010, 01:55:47 UTC 7 years ago



>.> <.

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seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 19:17:40 UTC 7 years ago

Zombie blue whales exist.

greenmansgrove

May 11 2010, 20:21:12 UTC 7 years ago Edited:  May 11 2010, 20:24:32 UTC

Well, there goes oceanic shipping.

And if the whales have converted, then dolphins and killer whales are suspect, too. So much for any thought of beach vacations anymore. Hell, most small boats are right out, too.

And I keep feeling like there's something I missed... Some 40+ pound water based mammal that can move onto land, just waiting for the right moment.

Hippos!

Edit: amphibians /= mammals

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dormouse_in_tea

May 12 2010, 07:32:31 UTC 7 years ago

*fascinated* but...but...okay, of course they exist, waaaay over 40lbs, but how long do they LAST? Baleen! Are krill sufficient to maintain them without the virus cannibalizing the host completely? I guess the cold water would really help...

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dornbeast

May 11 2010, 19:59:24 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, dear God, not the zombie whales.

I play a game where the zombie whales aren't just zombie whales; they're amphibious zombie whales. These things have wrecked mighty fortresses.

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cupcakery

May 11 2010, 18:50:18 UTC 7 years ago

The idea of zombie penguins makes me far more gleeful than it should. Maybe because I imagine them sliding down a slope in with a jump at the end, in a large group, and landing on some unsuspecting Antarctic researcher.

beccastareyes

May 11 2010, 19:08:01 UTC 7 years ago

I thought it was said that it had to be mammalian. Granted, there aren't many birds large enough, but you could at least run tests on zoo penguins to see if they have an inactive strain. Or sea turtles or commercial fish to cover your other bases. Or giant squid, which I think is the only invertebrate that comes to mind that could even get that big.

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seanan_mcguire

May 11 2010, 19:17:25 UTC 7 years ago

Actually, it is about species. Mammals only. There is no recorded evidence of avian transmission, and chicken is still safe to eat.

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paradisacorbasi

May 11 2010, 19:34:02 UTC 7 years ago

It is too about species.

Only mammals above weight 40 lbs.

tibicina

May 11 2010, 23:20:13 UTC 7 years ago

No, it's also specifically only mammals. So not species, no, but order, yes. Penguins, being birds, and not mammals, not so much.

Also, ostrich, probably totally the new commonly ranched food animal.

sheistheweather

May 11 2010, 22:54:00 UTC 7 years ago

I thought they just had to be warm-blooded, and 40+ pounds. Emperor penguins usually range from about 50 to 100 lbs, and are warm-blooded, so if that is the case, then there could very well be zombie penguins.

If it's JUST mammals, then we're safe from penguins.

sheistheweather

May 11 2010, 23:02:20 UTC 7 years ago

I was wrong. Avians are not (yet?) susceptible.

tibicina

May 11 2010, 23:16:26 UTC 7 years ago

Also, zombie orcas and seals and sealions. And yeah, the bears and the cariboo and moose and wolves and sled dogs... and...

fionn320

May 12 2010, 02:53:58 UTC 7 years ago

Obligate carnivores, or any animal that subsists mainly on mammal meat, that reach breeding size after 40 pounds would die off as a species in one generation, as they would all convert prior to reaching breeding size.

hasufin

May 16 2010, 01:09:29 UTC 7 years ago

I wonder about this. I'm curious as the the mechanism by which viral amplification occurs in a recently-killed organism. It can't be happening on the cellular level, or everyone would be undergoing viral amplification. So it's at the system level, which might imply that there are ways to kill an organism without triggering amplification.

Which would probably - if they're not corrupt and power-mad as all hell - be a good direction for research by the CDC. Bad enough that people have to destroy the roving zombies; Gramps dying in his rocking chair is equally dangerous right now.

seanan_mcguire

May 21 2010, 16:50:16 UTC 7 years ago

Basically, everything gets "kick-started" for a few seconds, as the virus switches to its live state. It's an actual viral transformation. Anything below threshold it can't get sufficient mass, and the transition cuts off.

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kshandra

June 9 2010, 06:33:17 UTC 7 years ago

Finally getting to join the party after finishing the book this past weekend....

It will no doubt please you to know that gridlore's usename on his journal has been "speed-metal zombie penguin!" for several years, now.