Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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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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?

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.
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.
Oh, the Bambi bit got me howling out loud and going to read it to Miles.
I loved the Bambi bit! And I haven't even ever seen the movie.