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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

paradisacorbasi

June 3 2011, 03:34:32 UTC 6 years ago

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Oh, and to help drum up interest, I stuck a poll up on goodreads: what kind of blogger would you be in the Newsflesh'verse?

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/49070-newsflesh-b-feed-7094569-feed-newsflesh-1-mira-grant-http-ec

notalwaysweak

June 5 2011, 01:20:28 UTC 6 years ago

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Oh, good one. Now I have to go see if I actually have a Goodreads login.

I would absolutely be a Fictional. Except I would also possibly be trying to get my hands on Bindi Irwin to see how she feels about the bloggers named for her dad, assuming that she survives the Australian Rising. For that matter, assuming I survive the Australian Rising. I'm dangerously unskilled with weapons and we have pretty tight gun laws, but there is a gun shop two kilometres from here, and I live a fair distance from the major airports (which I would assume would be the first point of entry for K-A into the country). Oh! Refugees! Oh boy. That could get interesting.

...um, and that would be why I would be a Fictional.

windtear

June 8 2011, 11:54:45 UTC 6 years ago

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I have two words for you: Zombie. Cassowaries. Well, actually zombie any of our wildlife. Imagine a zombie kangaroo. Imagine a refugee meeting a zombie kangaroo. Australian natives tend to the vicious and territorial as it is. Kellis-Amberlee would just make our sensible precautions... much more sensible.

But I really don't like the idea of zombie funnelwebs.

notalwaysweak

June 8 2011, 12:16:03 UTC 6 years ago

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Zombats. Seriously. Wombats easily get over 40 pounds and they're pretty scary when they're pissed off. But yeah, the kangaroos and cassowaries are really going to be the ones to watch out for, and we're lucky we don't still have all that megafauna.

Fortunately, koalas remain small and "cuddly" (fuck no, I've seen those claws), with the higher end of the weight range being about 26 pounds.

Looks like echidnas are still safe. Also, echidna penises have four heads. Thanks, Wikipedia!

As for the funnelwebs, I will never sleep again, and I'm in Victoria, where they allegedly aren't.