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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seanan_mcguire

June 6 2011, 20:53:44 UTC 6 years ago

1) These are the weather conditions described as following the tropical storm which blew yellow fever mosquitoes from Cuba to the Gulf Coast. The meteorologists I consulted said it was unlikely but possible, and had happened before. The severity of the storm is what made the second Rising possible.

2) They were flying in the grass part of the time, and a killswitch protocol was being used in some regions.

3) Zombies need to eat, and will, under duress, eat each other. The shelf life on a well-fed zombie is decades. Remember that zombies shamble toward zombies. The infected shamble toward Santa Cruz to join the existing mob, and as long as the city isn't fully reclaimed, that mob will continue to grow as new people get dumb.

4) No. That's awesome.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 21:08:35 UTC 6 years ago

1) Huh. My experience has been in terms of "Hurricane making landfall in FL, causing flooding in GA" and that's a BIG hurricane. I think if I saw what you're describing on a sat picture, it'd be "That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now?" because, wow. Nebraska. A hurricane causing simultaneous storms in Nebraska. That's epic.

2) I hope we get to chase down whoever sent off the killswitch orders. Does this by any chance relate to whatever happened to Rick?

3) The thing I keep coming back to is, zombie hordes are one of the rare few problems which will go away on their own. Either through simple starvation, or through more direct action, it seems wrong to me that zombie hordes in unpopulated spaces remain a problem. Of course, after the Second Rising, well, all bets are off.

4) Yeah. I wish I could recall the mechanism, but it's been years since I read about it. This population of mice in Southern CA has a virus which kills most of the population with each generation, but each time there are just enough mice who don't die that the population is rebuilt. Every mouse is infected, but just enough are asymptomatic that the population doesn't die out. There's some reason I don't recall that keeps them from ever evolving a proper resistance to the virus, but the virus won't ever kill them all off, either. It's the closest I know of to what you've described with KA.

paradisacorbasi

June 6 2011, 22:02:01 UTC 6 years ago

1) Katrina was big enough to cause weather patterns disturbed on the northwest.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 22:04:44 UTC 6 years ago

At the same time, or several days/weeks later? Rain bands from hurricanes can travel a very great distance, but slowly. They're really fun to watch on weather maps, actually.

paradisacorbasi

June 6 2011, 23:18:53 UTC 6 years ago

At the same time.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html

When it was slamming NOLA, it also was slamming 3 other states, (TX, MS, AL) and the outlying bands were hitting states as far west as Arizona, and as far north as Ohio, as I recall.

So I would not call the storm in DEADLINE that far out of true for a really bad storm.

hasufin

June 6 2011, 23:53:24 UTC 6 years ago

Huh! I didn't realize they could get that big at all.

paradisacorbasi

June 7 2011, 03:09:28 UTC 6 years ago

I seem to recall hearing on the news, an anchor speaking in a hushed tone of combined awe and boggle that Hurricane Katrina, at its largest, was larger than the state of Texas.