Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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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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I finished Deadline this afternoon (oh wait, it's after midnight...yesterday afternoon) and then proceeded to read most of the comments before I got distracted.

One thing that was bugging me: on page 504, George yells at Shaun for not being dressed. On page 517, he has a pocket. In between those pages, I didn't notice him going anywhere near his clothing, but through the kitchen and then to the garage and back. (This is when they're at Maggie's once they've driven through the storm and had to strip to get inside.) Can anyone point to a sentence in which he gets dressed? I spent all those pages imagining him doing things mostly-naked due to lack of clothing identifiers.

Other comments.
1) SQUEE! I guessed the clone thing at the last line, as evidenced by a text I sent to a friend who finished before me. One was, clone George? The next was, read extras, I was right.

2) Had a hard time believing that Doctor Wynne was involved. :( :( :(

3)I didn't pick up on the fact that Shaun and George were sexually intimate until I read the threads. Kudos on the subtlety.

4) I am sad that Shaun changed his blog name. Not surprised, but sad. I liked "Hail to the King" but "Adaptive Immunities" just isn't as...Irwiny and pre-George's death Shaun.

5) Epileptic teacup bulldogs love.

6) Still trying to puzzle out the connection between Shaun seeing a George-without-retinalKA and the clone-without-retinalKA. Can't wait for more clues.

10) Here just because I can't leave the list at 6, but 7 is worse.
Pretty sure he wound up getting dressed between paragraphs. Sorry about that!
Clearly the house was offended by Shaun's lack of pants and materialized them around him when he wasn't looking.

Or dressed between paragraphs. I'm just amused imagining the house doing that without Shaun's notice.