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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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."