Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

To celebrate the release of Deadline [Amazon]|[Mysterious Galaxy], here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned.

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence. I will probably answer a great many comments. I may not answer all of them.

Have fun!
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beable

June 1 2011, 16:50:24 UTC 6 years ago


Just got Deadline, haven't read yet.

But anyways based on Feed and posts, I have been thinking about the many hobbies this week that I take for granted as people doing that wouldn't be common hobbies anymore in a post zombie apocalypse world.

- orienteering
- hiking (unless well armed, licenced, and in appropriate sized groups)
- camping

Also realizing the currently medical problems or procedures would have a whole new level of danger. Getting a bee sting or paper cut would be so much more dangerous. Hell, just having hemorrhoids or something would be!
And surgery? Whether it be more minor things like cesaereans, or major things like heart/lung transplants?

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 17:03:59 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, medicine is a daredevil career again.

sheistheweather

June 8 2011, 16:54:35 UTC 6 years ago

Wondering... Organ transplants. I'm guessing they can't do cadaver ones anymore, just ones from brain dead patients. Once they removed the organ from the living person, does the virus inside it amplify?

vixyish

June 1 2011, 17:08:12 UTC 6 years ago

That's one of the things I find brilliant and endlessly fascinating about the Newsflesh universe. The many, many ways in which the world would change. So many of the little things we take for granted that we couldn't anymore.

I like Shaun & George having grown up in the post-Rising world, so that we can see the pre-Rising world through their eyes, and how absolutely crazy a lot of our normal world would seem to them.

branna

June 1 2011, 18:30:56 UTC 6 years ago

It's the littlest things too--the pop culture and the cliches, most of all. Shaun's little expositions on "sunshine and puppies" and Bambi totally got me, this round.

celticdragonfly

June 1 2011, 21:09:57 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, the Bambi bit got me howling out loud and going to read it to Miles.

drcpunk

June 17 2011, 21:28:42 UTC 6 years ago

I loved the Bambi bit! And I haven't even ever seen the movie.

trialia

June 2 2011, 12:18:34 UTC 6 years ago

I'm pretty sure I'd be fucked, since EDS is very damaging, disabling and not autoimmune, and also includes the fact that my skin is fragile as hell...

kengr

June 6 2011, 21:41:44 UTC 6 years ago

Oh lord, your list of activities immediately made me think of the Boy Scouts. Can you say *total* revamp of the program?

And now I'm trying to imagine the new merit badges...

Scouting Merit Badges, Post-Rising

judifilksign

June 6 2011, 22:33:23 UTC 6 years ago

Weapons care.
Target shooting with real zombies.
How to sterilize an outbreak area with fire. Even in the woods.

kyrielle

June 8 2011, 14:04:36 UTC 6 years ago

Some of the things in medicine that people protest today would change, too. I'm guessing the c-section rate would drop dramatically (probably further than it should). Elective c-section? With body fluids and the chance of Mom dying on the table (albeit small)? Er, no. Necessary one? Maybe, but how much distress does the baby (who won't amplify!) have to be in before it's "necessary"?

Yikes.