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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coffeecocktails

June 16 2011, 13:46:39 UTC 6 years ago

Just stayed up late to finish Deadline, and wanted to say it was mind-blowingly brilliant. Your characters are so no-bullshit and real - in a totally wonderful way - and your writing is heartbreaking and hilarious and clever, and... Argh. I thought Georgia's death in Feed was a shock, but there were a few chapter endings in this book that were like sucker punches to the face (I mean that as a thoroughly good thing).

Also, I'm a journalist and I know this is super wrong and waaaaay missing the point, but I wish my life was more like that :-D (Yup, can't help being jealous of fictional characters' scoops, even when they are fictional/zombie-infested/dead. Good times.)

And thank you so, so much for the George/Shaun relationship reveal - not just the revelation itself, but the way in which you did it. It wasn't gratuitous at all, and it wasn't done for shock value; it was utterly organic and came out so naturally, but in a way that only added to the poignancy of the situation. Mostly I just loved that two main characters in a fantasy trilogy managed to conceal a sexual relationship for an entire book and I didn't have to hear about the throes of their passion every two pages :-D I got the feeling during Feed that Shaun and George were a couple, but I thought (a). That I was probably reading waaaaay too much into things, and (b). That surely if the two main characters were having it off, the author would be telling me about it aaaaaall the tiiiiiime. The fact that you didn't was so cool - it added so much more to the character of George when the eventual reveal came. And I didn't realise how much George and Shaun were definitely my couple of the series until I realised how very much I did not want Shaun to get with Becks (whom I love, by the way).

Erm, sorry for rambling - it's the middle of the night here and I just read a 600-page book in one sitting, ha - but this is all to say that these books are some of my favourite fantasy novels of... well, ever. So, thank you so much! And thank you for writing such amazing women characters. They are inspiring and badass, and I can't wait to get much, much more George in Blackout. :-)

seanan_mcguire

June 16 2011, 14:41:43 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it, and that you appreciated the reveal. If Shaun had narrated Feed, you would probably have had a bit more over-sharing "yeah, I hit that," but that's because his sense of need-to-know isn't as strong as hers is.

paradisacorbasi

June 16 2011, 14:48:38 UTC 6 years ago

He is not his sister!

Still grumpy about people who think the relationship should've come out in Feed.

In Georgia's opinion: what does who Georgia's sleeping with have to do with Ryman's campaign? Little to nothing! What does who Shaun's sleeping with have to do with him going out and poking zombies with sticks? Little to nothing?

*loyal grumbling*