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.

brightlotusmoon

June 2 2011, 17:06:31 UTC 6 years ago

You know, after I read that scene where he says George's name instead of Beck's (And now I have to know if she even stayed in the bed or immediately bolted in shock), I thought about it. While I was reading Feed I kept getting the nagging feeling that Georgia and Shaun were lovers, and I realized I was all right with it. It happens: Adopted kids fall in love with the biological children of the adoptive parents; step-siblings fall in love; seperately unrelated adopted kids fall in love.
It's the emotional taboo more than anything else, probably. "But she's your sister! Ew!"
And then I wondered what would happen if Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and Pax Thien Jolie Pitt fell in love, or Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt. It would be very weird, but not creepy to me.

Shaun and Georgia are each other's universe. They only have each other. They're not related genetically. They were raised together. They were told, over, and over, "You are brother and sister." But in cases like this, that doesn't matter. Hormones also get involved. Etc.

So, in conclusion, I'm cool with it. But I did feel awful for Becks! Poor Becks.

seanan_mcguire

June 15 2011, 18:52:41 UTC 6 years ago

Agreed.