Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: The Old Spice Man reading FEED inside my head.

Made. Of. Flail.

Um. Um. Um. Okay. Look:

The NPR List of 100 Killer Thrillers has been released.

HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS LOOK LOOK AT #74 LOOK AT IT LOOK THAT'S MY BOOK THAT I WROTE THAT'S FEED ON A LIST PUBLISHED BY NPR HOLY CRAP.

...okay, I'm better now. Sorry about that. Except that I'm neither better nor sorry, but I am fairly convinced that I've been asleep for the last two years. If I wake up and this has all been a really detailed linear dream, I'm taking my brain out behind the woodshed. I'm just saying.

I mean, this isn't the first awesome Feed-related thing that's happened. Consider, if you will, io9's top picks for summer reading. Sure, the summer's almost over, but there's still a little warm weather left in which to enjoy a good zombie apoca—WHO AM I KIDDING WITH THE CALM RATIONALITY?! MY BOOK THAT I WROTE IS ON A LIST PUBLISHED BY NPR HOLY CRAP.

I love this book so much, and I love that my weird science fiction dystopian political thriller full of zombies is actually getting out there and infecting the world with its, well, weirdness and its virology and I am so excited I could just about scream right now. Because HOLY CRAP. That's going to be my refrain today, I swear. HOLY CRAP.

I leave you with the meme your meme could smell like, an awesome Old Spice Man-inspired "everybody is awesome" feedback meme, and I go off to gibber and giggle in a corner until I can calm down a little.

HOLY CRAP.
Tags: awards and stuff, cheese and cake, dino dance party, feed, good things, mira grant, so the marilyn, zombies
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seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 14:59:23 UTC 6 years ago

Yay!

jerusha

August 4 2010, 14:43:57 UTC 6 years ago

Hot damn! Congratulations - it's well-deserved.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 14:59:32 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

tremblefrost

August 4 2010, 14:49:43 UTC 6 years ago



WOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!

Feed really was awesome, by the way. But, I'm sure you know that already.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 14:59:45 UTC 6 years ago

STAR TREK DANCE PARTY WOO!

Hee.

tremblefrost

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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ex_esssjay

August 4 2010, 14:52:24 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations - that brilliant! :-)

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 14:59:56 UTC 6 years ago

I'm all stunned and gleeful.

herefox

August 4 2010, 15:02:46 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations! I was just wondering on Sunday whether or not you'd made the list. If there had been any justice in the world I thought you would!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 15:26:37 UTC 6 years ago

And I did!!!!

filkertom

August 4 2010, 15:13:17 UTC 6 years ago

WAAAAAAHOOOOOOO!!! So very damn cool!

Current music: The Old Spice Man reading FEED inside my head
I'm on a zombie.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 15:26:53 UTC 6 years ago

Damn straight.

silvertwi

August 4 2010, 15:17:26 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations! Once again, proving that you're awesome.

You totally deserve that spot, too.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 15:26:59 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

tikiera

August 4 2010, 15:22:07 UTC 6 years ago

Woohoo!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 15:27:06 UTC 6 years ago

*haz the glee*

starmalachite

August 4 2010, 15:28:07 UTC 6 years ago

I'll be darned -- maybe it *is* a just world after all! Lessee, talent + hard work + earned good karma + a bit of luck... yup, that's got to be the answer.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 16:56:39 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

popfiend

August 4 2010, 15:31:46 UTC 6 years ago

That's SO VERY AWESOME!

Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 16:56:47 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

spectralbovine

August 4 2010, 15:45:10 UTC 6 years ago

Whatever happens from now on, your book totally made a list published on NPR. SWEET.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 16:57:08 UTC 6 years ago

...wow, does that make it sound like you think I'm about to be hit by a bus.

spectralbovine

6 years ago

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admnaismith

August 4 2010, 15:51:23 UTC 6 years ago


My advice is, prepare yourself for more of the same.

Yes, you really did hit one out of the park, and people who count are noticing.

Also, people who may or may not count, but who have been familiar with your work over the years, are delighted for you, but not exactly surprised.

PS: WELL DONE, THOU WICKED AND DEPRAVED INSUBORDINATE.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 16:57:20 UTC 6 years ago

GLEE!

roadnotes

August 4 2010, 15:56:49 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:25:56 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

kippurbird

August 4 2010, 16:00:06 UTC 6 years ago

Now George is going to have the Old Spice Guy's voice whenever I read Feed. I can't decide if this is awesome or just plain weird.

And of course you're on the NPR list. NPR is listened to by intelligent, well read and thinking individuals. Anyone who has most of their brain and not bitten by a zombie would realize that your book belongs on such a list.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:26:10 UTC 6 years ago

Mwaahahahahaha.

kippurbird

6 years ago

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bigherman

August 4 2010, 16:06:42 UTC 6 years ago

You know, I think the pipeline of awesome into you life had a blockage, but you had so much awesome coming to you that it backed up and eventually exploded from the pressure. Thus, the current deluge.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:27:00 UTC 6 years ago

I can work with that.

kshandra

August 4 2010, 16:09:36 UTC 6 years ago

PURE. HAMMERED. AWESOME.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:27:28 UTC 6 years ago

I KNO RITE?!

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seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:27:58 UTC 6 years ago

I approve of your taste in literature.

vixyish

August 4 2010, 16:32:26 UTC 6 years ago

*BEAM*

I'm so proud of you!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:28:15 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you, sweetheart.

sdelmonte

August 4 2010, 16:36:03 UTC 6 years ago

Wow.

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:30:24 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah.

keristor

August 4 2010, 16:39:08 UTC 6 years ago

Whoo! Way to go!

(And on the subject of plagues, in case you haven't had time to notice yet: http://keristor.livejournal.com/65209.html)

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:30:55 UTC 6 years ago

That link makes me really happy.

Congrats!

maverick_weirdo

August 4 2010, 16:39:17 UTC 6 years ago

You even beat Cryptonomicon

Re: Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:31:31 UTC 6 years ago

I did!

Re: Congrats!

keristor

6 years ago

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dornbeast

August 4 2010, 16:44:19 UTC 6 years ago

"I am fairly convinced that I've been asleep for the last two years."

It's Seanan's dream. We're just caught up in it. (Beware of velociraptors.)

And you've earned this, along with any screaming you want to do. (Personally, I like the idea of you making shrieky bat-noises more; it seems less likely to result in people calling the police. But whatever helps you deal.)

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:32:06 UTC 6 years ago

I squeak a lot, it's true.

cleothyla

August 4 2010, 16:49:02 UTC 6 years ago

Congrats! You have earned it and you deserve it for writing such a wonderful book!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:32:26 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you.

jenk

August 4 2010, 16:50:49 UTC 6 years ago

YAY!!!

Feed is mainstream. ;)

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:32:55 UTC 6 years ago

I know, right? TERRIFYING.

alymid

August 4 2010, 16:54:38 UTC 6 years ago

AWESOME!!! Congrats!

seanan_mcguire

August 4 2010, 17:33:04 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!
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