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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2011-06-01 09:04:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2011-06-01 09:04:00

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

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tereshkova2001

June 2 2011, 20:40:00 UTC 6 years ago

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There was never an insect vector before now, and Dr. Abbey has put KA into insects, so one could draw a conclusion that she's the one who built and released those mosquitoes.
Which I reject.

herefox

June 2 2011, 20:44:19 UTC 6 years ago

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If anyone is releasing a new vector of infection I'd assume it was the same people behind the CDC plot, really. They've been releasing new strains from the beginning, it sounds like.

celticdragonfly

June 3 2011, 02:49:29 UTC 6 years ago

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And I still don't understand WHY, what it is they're trying to accomplish. I feel stupid.

These are my hypotheses...

paradisacorbasi

June 3 2011, 03:31:32 UTC 6 years ago

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"They want their weapon." -- Outbreak.

Pretty much they want to be able to cure KA on their terms, but still be able to have it usable as a weapon when they want.

They want people to remain afraid until that happens because people afraid are people easily controlled.

And they're also doing it for power because all the laws created since the first Rising would end up being rescinded if there were no longer any need for them with a cure.

seanan_mcguire

June 3 2011, 20:06:32 UTC 6 years ago

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They want to control the uncontrollable, and they want to prevent the population from becoming unstable when different strains of the zombie virus are running around, some of them leading to partial immunity or possible recovery.

beccastareyes

June 4 2011, 02:01:11 UTC 6 years ago

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Dr. Wynne seemed to want to eliminate any form of KA that either would 100% zombify you or could 100% be cured. Without further work, I'd suspect KA would speed the development of people like George**, reduce the number of people who spontaneously amplify, and in general be a disease that's still dangerous but more in the range of HIV-2010 than... well, HIV-1980 with zombies. Which would make it harder to go for the head since, well... she might get better, and the sticky ethics of exposing your infants to active-KA -- they might develop immunity, or they might amplify as soon as they hit 40-60 pounds.

I suspect other agents like the state of the US population (read: obsessed with seeming safety, afraid of everything, and easily controlled), since it makes post-9-11 look like an anarchy, and that the tobacco/plastic/whatever companies are suddenly happy that 'carcinogen' isn't a big deal any more (though maybe Big Tobacco less so so now that the southeast is being firebombed to clear the zombies...)

** And Shaun, if anything about his body eased his apparently acquired immunity (working hypothesis, given Seanan's comments).