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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deakat

June 3 2011, 18:33:47 UTC 6 years ago

Because all of the CrazyBrainRoommate!Georgia dialogue was coming out of Shaun's backbrain.

I'm not entirely certain that's the case here.

paradisacorbasi

June 4 2011, 02:24:37 UTC 6 years ago

At one point, CrazyBrainRoommate!Georgia flat out tells Shaun in so many words she doesn't know anything he doesn't know because she's a figment of his sanity slippage.


ICON LOVE!

So she's from the backbrain, and clone!George is from the lab.

starletfallen

June 4 2011, 19:14:13 UTC 6 years ago

Just because brainpan!Georgia says she doesn't know anything he doesn't know doesn't mean it's not, in a way, fundamentally Georgia. If he doesn't hear or see something, she can't know it. But she processes information in an entirely different way.

What with the transferred-immunity thing, and the "mob intelligence" among the zombies, my personal theory is that there was a subconscious - hell, maybe even below subconscious somehow - connection between the two of them when they were together and alive, like there is between zombies, because of KA and science somehow. Not like proper telepathy, but just... a knowing of each other. They know each other almost better than they knew themselves. Which, in turn, led me to think that maybe a bit of that "George's Way Of Processing Information" is just sort of remembered by part of Shaun's brain. Which would make crazybrainroommate!Georgia... both part of Shaun's backbrain and not at the same time. He doesn't have the ability to think like she does, but part of his brain remembers how she did and so when he's delusional and remembering her, it accesses that, somehow. Which I can't explain any better, but there's my epileptic tree theory of the day.

Of course, there's also the point where both VisualHallucination!George and Clone!George are free of retinal KA, and I do not for a second believe in coincidences like that in this series.

AUGH IS IT NEXT YEAR YET?