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, 00:11:28 UTC 6 years ago

I didn't want to take out New Orleans, I really didn't, but the only known "storm brings us mosquitoes" that also worked given the economic and global structure at the time = Cuba to the Gulf Coast. Read up on the yellow fever outbreaks if you're ever really curious. They're terrifying and awesome, and a single case on US soil is considered an epidemic for a damn. Good. Reason.

liret

June 8 2011, 00:31:43 UTC 6 years ago

I can't argue against killer bugs from Cuba as a plausible way to kill everyone. You can still tell when the really bad yellow fever years were, in New Orleans, by walking around the older cemeteries. When you get entire families who died in the same summer, that's usually the cause.

Mosquito-borne diseases in general seem like nature's way of reminding us we aren't really on top of the food chain.