Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: chipper
  • Music: Vixy and Tony, "Anna."

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!
Tags: deadline, mira grant
  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    switch
    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

    Help
  • 842 comments
...go 1 level up... Expand

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.

kshandra

June 1 2011, 17:39:00 UTC 6 years ago

If I may ask, how early did they tell you? Because I wondered, more than once, during the first book.

(And yeah, I just spoiled the living hell out of myself by reading this thread, but I'll have the book by Friday, and I don't know how this gets revealed, so there's still plenty left to shock me.)

spectralbovine

June 1 2011, 19:06:57 UTC 6 years ago

Shaun is kidnapped by the CDC and is given a questionnaire consisting of one question:

Have you committed any sort of incest? We just like to know these things. You know. For science.

kshandra

June 1 2011, 20:03:41 UTC 6 years ago

...that wasn't the question I was asking.

We've all seen posts from Seanan in the past where she said one variant or another of "I had no idea the book was going there until I wrote that sentence...." I was curious how early in the writing process Sean & Georgia told her they were sleeping together.

spectralbovine

June 1 2011, 20:19:50 UTC 6 years ago

...I was jokingly answering how it gets revealed in the book.

kshandra

June 1 2011, 20:32:30 UTC 6 years ago

Whether or not I thought you were actually revealing plot points (and having made the mistake of reading Transmetropolitan right after I woke up this morning, I'll admit the idea was at least plausible), that's still orthogonal to the point that I asked "When did the characters tell their writer" and you answered "When did the characters tell the audience."

That said, this is really something ridiculous to get hung up on, so I'm dropping it now. Sound good? ;-)

vixyish

June 1 2011, 23:54:17 UTC 6 years ago

I think he was jokingly replying to the part of your comment that said "but I'll have the book by Friday, and I don't know how this gets revealed".

spectralbovine

6 years ago

  • New comment

notalwaysweak

June 8 2011, 12:32:11 UTC 6 years ago

*Pepsisnort*

chaoticgoodnik

June 1 2011, 19:57:29 UTC 6 years ago

I wondered too.

Even though incest in fiction is generally a squick for me (consensual or not; hell, consensually together stepsiblings have been a squick for me) somehow Shaun and Georgia aren't.

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 21:03:11 UTC 6 years ago

They're less siblings in the traditional sense than students at the same school from hell.

paradisacorbasi

June 2 2011, 06:16:53 UTC 6 years ago

Yep! That's how I see it, since they were obviously from two different sets of parents, and were six weeks apart -- RL twins occasionally have birth delays, but not SIX WEEKS.

On the first read, I had my suspicions they were a couple.

On the second, they were firmed up, so seeing it confirmed here -- very gratifying in a weird sort of way.

Poor oblivious Shaun.

Poor clueless Becks who could've had Alaric if she wanted him.

wendyzski

June 4 2011, 02:18:17 UTC 6 years ago

Me too - it was "OK - not the healthiest emotional choice, but then again, NO ONE in these books is entirely emotionally healthy"

paradisacorbasi

June 4 2011, 02:26:18 UTC 6 years ago

Kinda difficult to be emotionally healthy in the Mason household in particular, but in the post Rising world?

Shaun says as much -- crazy has kinda become redefined.

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2011, 19:17:39 UTC 6 years ago

She still could. He's patient.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 19:01:13 UTC 6 years ago

My take on it in Feed was... huh. Well, there's no mention of intimacy with anyone else, no suggestion that would even be possible. So if they're having sex, it's with each other. But that's Not My Business so I'm not gonna worry about it.

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:02:20 UTC 6 years ago

That's kind of Georgia's take. It's no one else's business, so she doesn't feel the need to describe it, any more than she describes every meal and every trip to the bathroom.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 19:06:56 UTC 6 years ago

From a personal standpoint, I 100% agree.

It bothers me a bit that I had deliberately avoided thinking about a plot-relevant point, though. Gosh, I'm going to have to re-read Feed and look for other blind spots! The horror!

keristor

6 years ago

  • New comment

hasufin

6 years ago

  • New comment

silvertwi

6 years ago

  • New comment

lnbw

6 years ago

  • New comment

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

  • New comment

lnbw

6 years ago

  • New comment

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

  • New comment

A bit late to the party...

snowcoma

6 years ago

  • New comment

Re: A bit late to the party...

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

  • New comment

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 21:02:50 UTC 6 years ago

Very, very early.

Like, when George said "and our bedrooms are connected."

ashabardon

June 2 2011, 13:40:47 UTC 6 years ago

I read that but so didn't get the meaning. I only twigged when I read this thread but good on the pair of them!

Also I can't wait to hear how their sexual relationship is vital to Blackout ... :D

BTW, I assume the fact Sean can't get through to Rick is also going to be very important in Blackout too? I miss Rick.

jenrose1

June 3 2011, 19:46:30 UTC 6 years ago

That was when I started going hmmm as a reader..... but the whole "Students at the same school from hell" thing is there too at the same time.

Deleted comment

amberfox

June 2 2011, 06:20:21 UTC 6 years ago

Now I have to go back and re-read FEED to look for hints, which isn't exactly a hardship but I just did it 2 weeks ago getting ready for DEADLINE. My life is so hard.

tsgeisel

June 3 2011, 07:07:42 UTC 6 years ago

I remember picking up on this on the first read through. It's definitely there.

paradisacorbasi

June 4 2011, 02:27:50 UTC 6 years ago

It's very much there. A lot of Georgia's unpublished stuff. like the one where she goes "I got Shaun."

That's the first one that comes to mind, and the second is that Shaun would rather bunk in a hotel room with Georgia than with Rick.

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2011, 19:17:18 UTC 6 years ago

So hard!