Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • 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!
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jenrose1

June 3 2011, 20:40:12 UTC 6 years ago

If KA can make zombies function better in packs, I imagine it might explain a lot about... everything.

vixyish

June 3 2011, 22:36:58 UTC 6 years ago

Not long ago I came across an article describing that very pack behavior, the increased intelligence of an organism upon proximity to more of its own kind, in bacteria. It actually exists in the real world. (I just had to re-look-up the conversation; the phrase is "quorum sensing".)

I was all SEANAN SEANAN OMG I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS A REAL LIVE THING!!1!

She laaaaaaaaaaaaaughed. :)

jenrose1

June 3 2011, 22:52:27 UTC 6 years ago

lol! If you think about it too much, our brain cells *are* a quorum sensing operation... One neuron, not so much. Many neurons...

I just want to know if KA is acting like little teeny tiny wireless transmitters or what... functional telepathy is plausible, if you can figure out what makes the connection possible.

keristor

June 6 2011, 20:17:02 UTC 6 years ago

Well, there's a lot of non-verbal communication which isn't exactly telepathy but can cause 'mob' behaviour. Like the way birds will fly in formation and then all turn together (not one seeing the next actually start to turn), and in insects. The term 'telepathy' is usually thought of as meaning hearing thoughts, this is more of a gestalt or synergy, like the brain, still using things like sound and electricity and chemicals as transmission media.

(But you can have a functioning network using carrier pigeons, it's just a bit slow -- RFC 1149. OMG, we /have/ insectile carriers, who needs avian ones?)

sheistheweather

June 8 2011, 17:01:36 UTC 6 years ago

Maybe that's how Clone!George got into Shaun's head...

seanan_mcguire

June 14 2011, 02:59:47 UTC 6 years ago

I love you so.