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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dornbeast

June 2 2011, 06:49:47 UTC 6 years ago

"My working theory is that when George wakes up in CDC custody in Feed, they have already done some kind of neural recording of her and gathered whatever samples they needed to make the clone."

Except the clone has memories from after the CDC visit.

tereshkova2001

June 2 2011, 19:51:05 UTC 6 years ago

The CDC handled George's cremation; presumably they could have taken the memories then.
They could even have taken DNA samples earlier and started growing the clone before George's death.
Which would imply that someone at the CDC was involved with Tate and whomever shot Georgia in the first place, and knew they'd want a replacement.

dornbeast

June 3 2011, 01:54:06 UTC 6 years ago

The CDC handled George's cremation; presumably they could have taken the memories then.

Now that makes sense.

I'm slightly tempted by another theory, which involves the people who created Georgia Prime being completely surprised by her having enough wit to speak. On the other hand, I can create WAGs all day. I'm probably better off practicing patience; I'll find out in a year or so.

wendyzski

June 4 2011, 02:37:52 UTC 6 years ago

That was my assumption as well - they had her body long enough to do extensive research on her blood. And if you are working from the theory that memory causes minute physical changes in brain tissue( even the parts that had to be scraped off the wall) then you could get a fair amount of recorded data, if you're good enough, from that. From what we see in the preview, they are a little surprised by how much "personality" the clone is showing.

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2011, 19:30:46 UTC 6 years ago

Good points.