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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Re: Troper call out!

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 01:42:04 UTC 6 years ago

It never says "we are not sleeping together." It says "we get annoyed when people react to us like we shouldn't be sharing a room." Unless, of course, you have a page number, in which case, a typo SO BIG it changes reality has slipped through.

Re: Troper call out!

archangelbeth

June 6 2011, 02:16:23 UTC 6 years ago

HA-HMMM! George is sneaky in her implications. I coulda sworn I remembered a more explicit statement of "platonic, nyah." Or maybe I've dimension-hopped again. Wouldn't be the first time.

(Mind, even successfully misdirected, the line still didn't ring false, so I think even the dimension-hopped version would "win" either way.)

*beth goes back to flipping through Feed to see if she has the alternate-universe version with her, or if it was only the consciousness that went jumping, as usual*

Re: Troper call out!

kyrielle

June 6 2011, 02:27:57 UTC 6 years ago

If I remember right, Georgia implied that she was appalled that people would think that of them...but she never said it wasn't true.

Re: Troper call out!

archangelbeth

June 6 2011, 02:53:28 UTC 6 years ago

Page 420, bottom paragraph, and you are quite right. It is a marvelous bit of misdirection -- I'd taken the "since we hit puberty" to indicate that they'd been doing it prior to that (presumably platonically) and saw no reason to quit, plus good and sufficient reasons to keep doing it, and the pre-puberty-platonic assumption just slid riiiiiight on through to the post-puberty behavior.

Re: Troper call out!

kyrielle

June 6 2011, 09:21:56 UTC 6 years ago

*grins* Thank you for the page number! I wanted to look it up, but we moved recently and my copy of Feed is...somewhere...in a box. Sigh.

And yeah, when I read the reveal in Deadline, my very first reaction...was to get mad at Georgia for LYING to me. I had to laugh at myself. And to be fair, she didn't exactly lie....

Re: Troper call out!

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:04:03 UTC 6 years ago

She didn't lie. She just didn't think it was relevant, or anyone else's business.

Re: Troper call out!

kyrielle

June 7 2011, 03:11:18 UTC 6 years ago

I know! This is why I had to laugh at myself. Because honest to pity, if George was a person I was talking to face to face, would I really expect her to divulge that? Heck, even if they were only business partners and not adoptive siblings, I would NOT.

But she was SO conscientious about telling the truth that I reacted with "hey wait a minute" - except this wasn't a truth that had any bearing on anyone else, certainly not we-her-audience!

Hence the laughing at myself.

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Re: Troper call out!

seanan_mcguire

June 7 2011, 16:23:39 UTC 6 years ago

Hee. :)

Re: Troper call out!

rymenhild

June 8 2011, 19:50:40 UTC 6 years ago

There's also a really sneaky bit I just noticed where Georgia refers to "our bed" on the same page as "We shared the same room until puberty hit, and since then we've never been more than a closed door away from one another" (159).