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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Spoilery, of course!

phoenix_singing

June 6 2011, 19:13:42 UTC 6 years ago

So my first thought was OH SHIT IT'S WATERBORNE AND THE RAIN IS FULL OF KELLIS-AMBERLEE, but I think the insect vector is actually scarier. D:

Also, "She would have gotten better" just tore my heart out. I read that part while on the way from DC to Kentucky and just turned to my boyfriend with the D: face on and then had to explain why I was flailing. (I'm trying to get him to read the books.)

Seriously, though, my heart just aches for Shaun. I suspected all the way back in Feed that there was more to their relationship than just very close siblings and that they might actually be in love like that (which really weirded me out until I remembered they're not actually related), but with the confirmation it's just...sldkfjslkdjsldkjsdj poor, poor Shaun. :( I can't help but wonder what's going to happen when he realizes George is...well. You know. *wants a happy ending for him, is totally okay with the double entendre*

Anyway, I'll be over here, waiting impatiently for Blackout. :P

Also, please tell me we're going to see more of Dr. Abbey, because she pretty much rocks. Taunted octopus, indeed! And can we thank the CDC for the insect-borne KA? (btw, that scene in Portland was scary as all hell and I loved every minute of it!)

Re: Spoilery, of course!

seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 19:15:17 UTC 6 years ago

Dr. Abbey is definitely a big part of Blackout, along with many other members of the medical community.

"She would have gotten better" may be the nastiest thing I have ever, ever done.

Re: Spoilery, of course!

phoenix_singing

June 6 2011, 19:30:06 UTC 6 years ago

Dr. Abbey is definitely a big part of Blackout, along with many other members of the medical community.

Huzzah! I love her. And I'm so excited for Blackout already, I can't even find words.

"She would have gotten better" may be the nastiest thing I have ever, ever done.

It was nasty and evil and horrible and I love you for doing it. If there was an election for Evil Overlord of the World, I would totally vote for you and happily serve amongst your throngs of (possibly KA-infected) minions.

Re: Spoilery, of course!

madfilkentist

June 6 2011, 19:30:39 UTC 6 years ago

"Caspell Office Park" gave me a pang.

Re: Spoilery, of course!

tereshkova2001

June 6 2011, 19:53:01 UTC 6 years ago

Me too, particularly since that's where Dr. Abbey's lab is.

(Icon is relevant not to this comment but to a different plotline all together.)

Re: Spoilery, of course!

ladymondegreen

June 20 2011, 16:09:46 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah. This exactly.

Re: Spoilery, of course!

hasufin

June 6 2011, 20:40:00 UTC 6 years ago

It bothers me. A LOT. Because, at least according to Kelly, only 2 in 10,000 reservoir cases get better. It's a lot higher than, um, 0 in 10,000 but... the fact that they could tell is very, very, very disturbing. It implies an awful lot more indeed.

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trialia

June 7 2011, 13:34:30 UTC 6 years ago

...You know what gets me about that frequency? It's exactly the frequency of my own chronic illness, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. So I was possibly less freaked out than I should've been. *g*

Re: Spoilery, of course!

hasufin

June 7 2011, 14:40:27 UTC 6 years ago

I'd say, don't get too freaked out about that. There are often such coincidences in statistical frequency, usually either as artifacts of the information collection mechanism or of the analysis tool, but sometimes because of an underlying truth about the mechanism. An awful lot of recessive traits, for example, seem to occur in 12.5% (+/- 2.5%) of a given population.

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trialia

June 8 2011, 07:55:30 UTC 6 years ago

Mm. Though the type of EDS that I have is actually autosomal dominant, a 50/50 split if you have an affected parent (or two).

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liret

June 8 2011, 00:16:22 UTC 6 years ago

Oh man, I didn't even think of that. How many tens of thousands of people did they need to study to get that accurate?

Re: Spoilery, of course!

hasufin

June 8 2011, 00:21:19 UTC 6 years ago

Probably not nearly as many as you'd think. I'm not familiar with how the "X in Y-thousand" probabilities are reached, but that seems like an extrapolatory figure, not interpolatory - in other words, their sample size was considerably less than 10,000 and they did some mathematical work to figure out what the real number should be.

Of course, It's not impossible that they got that figure by interpolation - plenty of people do Amplify, and the CDC gets blood test results for all of them.