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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Hmm, I had missed it right up to this thread (no, Shaun using her name didn't clue me in either, I just assumed that Georgia was the closest to him emotionally and he was reacting to Becks as an emotional equivalent). But then Shaun seems to be about the same level of Aspergers as I am in many ways, especially the puzzlement at the reactions of others.

Is it plot-relevant? Not to me, I see plenty of emotional attachments which are stronger than sexual ones, what people do with the plumbing is pretty irrelevant as far as I'm concerned (unless they are wanting to do it with me). The emotional bond between them was the important one as far as I'm concerned.

(Not that it bothers me, I picked up my views on incest from Heinlein, that if there is no danger of genetic problems then there's no harm, and outside that it's no one's business other than the participants.)
I had managed to miss it too, and I'm not sure how. Maybe because that's one aspect of literature I have a harder time picking up unless it's shoved in my face--which neither Sean nor George did. It's mostly significant to me because a friend of mine was very happy about their relationship with each other and I *think* she thought it was not sexual at all. She's worse than I am about that sort of thing, though.