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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seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 17:01:09 UTC 6 years ago

That's a complicated question, and part of why I sort of winced every time someone commented on how nice it was that Shaun and Georgia didn't need romantic interests. It's not that they didn't need them; it's that George was a very private person, and that wasn't the sort of thing she would share in a first-person narrative.

The short answer is "because they told me it was there." I actually tried to argue them out of it, and just kept getting contradicted by the fictional people. "It's icky." "We're not related." "It's inappropriate." "This isn't YA." "It's unnecessary." "No, it's not. Here are eight reasons why." "You were raised as brother and sister." "We were raised as props for photo opportunities."

So basically...it was there because it was there. I'm sorry it made you uncomfortable.

greycoupon

June 1 2011, 17:11:27 UTC 6 years ago

I tend to be really dense and miss details, was it stated in Feed they weren't related? I assumed they were. That does make me feel better about reading the rest of the book. Looking forward to reading 600 pages after work tonight.

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 17:13:56 UTC 6 years ago

It was, several times. I actually wanted to make Georgia Korean, so people would catch it more immediately (and because she seemed Asian-American to me), but then I would have been killing a central disabled woman of color, and wow did I not want an invitation to THAT party...

d_aulnoy

June 1 2011, 18:18:19 UTC 6 years ago

Ha! In my head, I've consistently been seeing her played by Sandra Oh, so this makes me feel good about my inner casting director.

layangabi

June 1 2011, 21:54:07 UTC 6 years ago

I understand why you wanted to avoid attracting that criticism, but speaking as an Asian fan, I wish you'd kept that bit of George's character. She's one of my favorite heroines, I adore her immensely. Yes, I might have hated you a little for killing her when I first read Feed. I loved you more for creating a character I loved and identified with so much.

kyburg

June 3 2011, 17:33:02 UTC 6 years ago

You can go to those parties. I'll be sitting right next to you at them, like it or not. You can't win, you won't ever break even and you can't leave.

Go with the want next time - I think your instincts here were good.

elorie

June 4 2011, 07:30:23 UTC 6 years ago

Well, she never says she's *not* Asian, does she? She's from California, where there are many Asians and Eurasians. So many it's practically unremarkable. She can be Asian in your head :)

Actually, in mine too. She reminds me of someone I know in real life, who is adopted and of mystery mix ancestry.

seanan_mcguire

June 16 2011, 19:32:55 UTC 6 years ago

I can completely appreciate your position here; honestly, I wish I'd had the guts, although, as people note below, she never says what race she is, just that she's not very dark-skinned. So in my heart, she'll always be half-Korean.

shiyiya

June 1 2011, 23:48:49 UTC 6 years ago

It's said several times that they're both adopted and six weeks apart in (estimated) age. It would take some serious weirdness for them to be biological siblings.