anxiousThis is the weirdest feeling. Feed started as a thought-experiment, a way of studying the possible behavior of virological "zombies" in a post-Rising world. I wanted to poke at the idea that maybe, humanity was bad-ass enough to survive an apocalypse of its own making, and see if we could come to terms with the zombie virus, the way we've come to terms with so many other viruses throughout our history. It's less smallpox and more Marburg, not quite stopped, but...handled a bit better than it might have been.
It was always meant to be a stand-alone. Even when I was getting excited about the book, it was a stand-alone, no sequels, no second chances. But then GP asked me, when I was complaining about a particularly tricky plot point, "Why do your zombies have to be dead?" And suddenly, they didn't have to be, and I had to revise 200 pages of text...
...and there were sequels. Two of them. A trilogy, which wound up titled "Newsflesh" (after the original title of book one), but could as easily have been called "Seanan fucks with the Masons." And it was huge and scary and maybe I could do it, if I tried really hard.
And now the second book is coming out. And I'm both impatient and nowhere near ready.
When will you rise?
March 18 2011, 02:49:58 UTC 6 years ago
One of my best friends is a progressive Old Catholic priest who is my pastor. A couple years ago he met his soul mate, and they got married. She teaches moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley.
I was at their house in December, and I noticed a well-read copy of _Feed_ on their living room bookshelf. I turned to John, and said, "Have you read that?" He said, "No, that's Lisa's." Lisa and I then went all fan-girl non-spoiler until he left the room, and then proceeded to talk about the heavy-duty spoiler plot lines.
There is a female Christian moral theologian with a PhD from Harvard Divinity School who likes _Feed._ Thought you might want to know that :-) I will be sure to remind her when the second one is out.
March 18 2011, 14:39:37 UTC 6 years ago