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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

alessandriana

June 3 2011, 23:46:31 UTC 6 years ago

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Having just finished Deadline two seconds ago:

OH MYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

holy shit did you just do that

i-- i don't-- what is this i don't even

I THINK I AM A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE WITH YOU JUST FYI

OR MAYBE KIND OF A LOT

oh my god

*goes into paroxysms of flailing*

a slightly more coherent reaction

alessandriana

June 4 2011, 00:39:52 UTC 6 years ago

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Re: "She would have gotten better"-- I was sitting in my cubicle at work (I've been stealing brief moments of time to read for the last two days, hiding the book under my desk and hoping nobody walks by), and it took everything I had, EVERYTHING I HAD, not to make a sound. I had to put the book down and go hide in the bathroom and mouth 'holy shit!' to myself a lot before I could calm down. Talk about a punch in the gut.

Re: the incest-- I knewwwwww it! Haha. Actually I had made it part of my headcanon all the way back in Feed, although I never expected you to actually spell it out. Bully for you, going where the narrative needed to go!

Re: the cloning-- I think this is possibly the part I'm shakiest on, science-believability-wise, but I trust you to make it work. And I'm glad to hear she's not just going to be an insta-George replacement; that feels like it would cheapen Georgia's death in Feed.

Re: everything else-- Mahir is f'ing awesome. I felt bad for Kelly, and also for Dave and Maggie and the movies they'll never watch together. Georgia-in-Shaun's-head was brilliant, and I really want to give the poor boy a hug-- but I'm also glad he has her along for the ride. Sex scenes will never not make me laugh. (I'm sorry, it has nothing to do with the quality of your writing, it's just me and the fact that "cock" is an inherently funny word.)

And do we seriously have to wait an entire year for the next book????