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, 17:15:41 UTC 6 years ago

I know that I'm not in the business of making everyone happy; if I were, I'd be writing about rainbow bunnies frolicking in the candy meadow. (Which might make diabetics unhappy.) Still, I honestly regret it when I make people sad, or uncomfortable.

Part of why it was so absolutely necessary will become clear in Blackout.

branna

June 1 2011, 18:27:13 UTC 6 years ago

Having now read the book, I'm wondering if there's a mechanism-of-transference issue in play...

I would really like to know how the CDC has accomplished not only force-grown clones but neural recording and transfer, dammit.

anthimerian

June 1 2011, 18:47:24 UTC 6 years ago

I would really like to know how the CDC has accomplished not only force-grown clones but neural recording and transfer, dammit.

THIS.

I trust the rest of the science in these books, it makes the kid in me who did disease detectives back in high school happy, but THAT. I have OPINIONS on clones that make me very Betan, to steal terminology from Bujold's Vorkosigan series, so despite how very awesome those last three pages were, I was also SO CONFUSED.

branna

June 1 2011, 18:53:21 UTC 6 years ago

I actually suspect the K-A virus may somehow be involved, given the weird zombie mob group-think thing. It might also explain Georgia-clone + "Georgia-in-Sean's head that does not have K-A eyes." I mean, that could all be simple coincidence, but um, in this series, I tend not to be real big on simple coincidence.


azurelunatic

June 5 2011, 23:59:02 UTC 6 years ago

I was screeching on Twitter just a few hours ago about "wait, she has alien eyes in Shaun's head"!!!!!

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 20:46:28 UTC 6 years ago

I promise the science, while extremely fringe (like, crazily so) is actually solid, and that it uses real-world research.

tsgeisel

June 3 2011, 07:05:27 UTC 6 years ago

I trust you on this, but I have to say that even from the very beginning with Doc's clone, I was wondering about that.

Is this something that has to wait until Blackout, or can you reveal the tech ahead of time?

seanan_mcguire

June 3 2011, 20:05:13 UTC 6 years ago

The only tech I can really explain is the force-grow, which essentially depends on some very complicated hormone and radiation therapy. Again, we're starting to play around with this sort of thing, but we're somewhat thwarted by the fact that cells go cancerous when exposed to the wrong kind of radiation. These people don't have that problem, and had very good reason to solve the force-grow issues, since they absolutely needed cloned human organs as quickly as possible.

keristor

June 6 2011, 19:34:54 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, like wow!

I would so love, sometime, to have a reference to links to the Real World(tm) things you've used in the books. In your Copious Spare Time(tm), of course *g*.

(And yes, you couldn't even think about putting that out until all the books are out. Spoilers wouldn't be in it. But I'd so love to see that stuff...)

mtfierce

June 3 2011, 06:21:56 UTC 6 years ago

Don't forget the meta-media angle on this one - it's not like Georgia's entire life (and personal thoughts) wasn't recorded in some fashion or another. Combine it with the biological similarities of the clone's brain, and even without reading the next book, I'd give it a "plausible."

seanan_mcguire

June 1 2011, 20:44:09 UTC 6 years ago

Contagious immunity has been documented before, usually with the children or romantic partners of people with post-polio syndrome.

idancewithlife

June 3 2011, 05:25:51 UTC 6 years ago

Oh. My. God. **lightbulb!!** Wow. I love how your mind works.

azurelunatic

June 6 2011, 07:15:22 UTC 6 years ago

Until Shaun actually tested clean, I was convinced that he was going to die, and you'd given us the way he might have been able to survive due to having been long-term fluid-bonded with a person with retinal KA as a false hope, to make the dashing of it even more painful. So I actually did not cry, because I was going to cry after he died. And then he didn't.

jenfullmoon

June 10 2011, 06:36:26 UTC 6 years ago

Hell, when I started the book I figured there were 50/50 odds of Shaun biting it by the end, and then I wondered who else would take over as narrator...

admnaismith

June 11 2011, 19:54:29 UTC 6 years ago


Yes, part three told by Maggie or Mahir would have been...anticlimactic.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 18:53:23 UTC 6 years ago

I've been wondering about that.

But... is it the case here? (No, I'm not asking. You're gonna tell us when you tell us.)