Hugo nominations are live. When will you Rise?

Huzzah and likewise squee! Totally deserved, and I now find myself in the uncomfortable position of wanting one of my favourite authors (Lois McMaster Bujold) to lose. Because, y'know, she already has a few (*cough cough lots*), and Feed is AWESOMESAUCE and deserves wider recognition. I totally agree with previous commenters who said a movie would be great, though I would live in terror of it being butchered.

I am not a horror fan. I do not watch horror movies. I am happy to watch movies that could be defined as action or comedy or whatever with horror elements, but I need them to have a lift - a sense that All Is Not Lost. People have to be able to fight the Thing Of The Week; I can't stand movies or books where at the end it's obvious that it was all just futile struggles against the omnipotent dark Whateveritwas. (I especially hate when at the end the protagonists think they've won but something is revealed to the reader/viewer that makes it clear that it's not over and the evil is coming back, which is why I cheered at the end of Bats, heh.) And that is one of the reasons why I loved Feed.

All *was* lost, there *was* a zombie apocalypse, humanity *is* kinda doomed if you want to look at it that way (what with everyone carrying the combo bug), but life goes on and if you're just sensible you have a good chance of dying of old age (at which point you become a serious disposal problem for your loved ones, hee). I love that. I love that okay, that sucked, but we can do something about it. I love that you have a world where yes, shambling zombies could turn up anywhere, but they aren't even the real problem in the book!

I also completely and utterly ADORE you for coming up with a believable scientific rationale for zombies. Your zombies work. It's not just "hey, clearly some magical shit that we wot not of happened and surprise! zombies!", it's "this person did this and that person did that and whoa, unintended consequences ahoy".

I figure you already know all the squee-worthy stuff you packed into this book, but what the heck, I was due some squee-ing and it never hurts to hear from your adoring fans, does it? (So long as we stay just adoring and don't go all Kathy Bates on you, ahem.)

I want to write as well as you. Not like you, the world only needs one Seanan Mcguire and the position is filled, but as well as you, and the mere fact that you exist gives me hope.

So, er... yeah. *cough* Nice book. :D