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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tereshkova2001

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

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.

dornbeast

June 3 2011, 02:20:31 UTC 6 years ago

I favor the conclusion that what one person can create, a bureaucracy can duplicate, even if only by accident. My guess on this is that in the process of tinkering with K-A, they created a version that can be carried by mosquitoes, then released it in Cuba for another test run.

Whether they knew this would happen or not is a little past my ability to speculate. I'd like to assume that it wasn't the case, partly because hurricanes aren't something people can schedule. On the other hand, there might have been some researcher watching Fiona's track on The Weather Channel, and swearing fit to break the screen, because she thought everything would be fine...