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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amberfox

June 2 2011, 05:57:29 UTC 6 years ago

I managed to miss that implication; I didn't read that as incest at all, just as him being used to sleeping next to George, which we had previously been told they did when traveling. Also if they slept in connecting rooms with the door open, saying Goodnight would be common enough. I shared a room with my sister for 1.5 years and still share a house, and we grab each other first to share anything we want to squee about or need an opinion on, but we've never had sex. Some people are just really close. Codependency would be a survival skill after the Rising.

Of course, if Seanan says they're fucking like bunnies, well, she'd know, right? =)

ladyphoenixia

June 5 2011, 01:00:19 UTC 6 years ago

I too managed to read Deadline and not actually realise that implication until I read it in this thread, just thought he was sleepy enough that the female who was saying goodnight to him in his room was George. Pretty oblivious hey?

keristor

June 6 2011, 20:01:54 UTC 6 years ago

Oh good, there's more of us who didn't get that implication either. Yes, I took it as "goodnight $personToWhomIsayGoodnight". But then Shaun strikes me as being at least as Aspie as I am (coupled with less enculturation than I got).

seanan_mcguire

June 7 2011, 15:23:45 UTC 6 years ago

It was meant to be subtle, so this just means I did it right. :)

drcpunk

June 17 2011, 21:26:24 UTC 6 years ago

Oh good. I feel less like an idiot.

sheistheweather

June 8 2011, 16:53:20 UTC 6 years ago

I had glimmerings of the idea when they, in FEED, insisted on the hotel room together and pushed the beds off to one side (together) so they could set up computer equipment.

Also, when Shaun referred to George as "my Georgia" once, near the beginning of DEADLINE, I figured it out, and my heart broke for him even more.

jenk

July 8 2011, 22:38:04 UTC 6 years ago Edited:  July 8 2011, 22:39:29 UTC

Other glimmerings in FEED:
Shaun's blog post near the beginning about how he's got one person that he's living for.
At the Rymans' ranch, when Georgia's enjoying watching Shaun move.

There were other things in how they interacted, but they didn't stand out on first reading like those did. Then in DEADLINE, there's plenty of glimmers when Becks jumps Shaun that he's had sex before. George had explicitly stated in FEED that he didn't date. So either George had lied, or George didn't know Shaun as well as she thought, or he was having sex with someone he didn't have to "date".