DEADLINE open thread. Have a party.

ok. So, I finally read Deadline. Mostly, I was waiting 'cause I was hoping to put it off until Blackout was out. Silly me, right? Especially with it just sitting there, glaring at me and telling me to stop goofing around and READ it.

I was glad to oblige. As I'm reading the comments here.. which I definitely didn't get all the way through as my computer would "glitch" every time I hit expand (gets old fast) I realized that I'm very naive.

I guessed that there was more to George and Shaun's relationship in Feed but like some of the comments I read, I chose to ignore it as it wasn't explicitly stated. In Deadline I still didn't get that it was that sort of relationship, even after he said Georgia's name with Becks (poor Becks!)

Though, I'm okay with that, as it gives a bit different explanation than I was going for. What was I thinking? Well, I read the first chapter from Blackout at the end, and the fact that Shaun is referred to as subject 139b makes me think that George and him were always a pair. That the CDC or whoever "made" them and then adopted them to the Masons. Or maybe independent scientists. Either way, it gave me a lot to think about.

I also wondered if the Masons didn't try to infect their new babies to get more publicity. Yes, I think that poorly of them.

As for the incest thing... well, is it really incest if they aren't genetically related? Really, I didn't have a problem with it. *was a biochem major. Genetics tell us that incest (maybe inbreeding is a better word) occurs and causes genetic problems (mutations) with offspring. non-genetic relations producing offspring does not seem to be a problem with my view on how things work. *nods* Not that I'm teaching you science, just explaining my view of the world as I see it.

^_^ I'm glad George was brought back. When cloning was first mentioned, I squinted at the page and went, George isn't dead anymore. and I just KNEW. Then when Shaun saw her the first time in that van after he found that that she could have gotten better (I was crying for Shaun) I was wondering how the heck she actually knew where he was to find him.... yes. I was that convinced she was now cloned and alive and there. And every time he saw her after that, the conviction got stronger and I was sure she had hunted him down. It literally took for her to say she was part of his delusions to convince me otherwise both times. Or her disappearing, but same difference right?

Though, I also found it interesting that Shaun saw George w/o the KA eyes.. (left book in other room as I thought about it, don't have exact words for it) especially when her eyes were revealed to be normal after the clone woke up.

Also, the memory sync.

Really, I'm excited to see how you handle cloning, the memory, and just well the rest of the science. Up until now, beyond a few, "huh, I wonder how that works as it doesn't seem to make complete sense" (Zombie-pack increased intelligence) I've been pretty impressed by the science and I've accepted the things not making complete sense as a fluke of science that's not understood yet. especially since not everything now is understood in science and that would just make sense that not everything would be understood about zombies. More so if it wasn't really studied... I mean.. if I was living in a post-apocalyptic society where people were afraid to leave their houses due to zombies, I think the last thing I'd be studying would be their behavior as a group and more how to kill them and how to cure them/rest of humanity.

The only one other thing I have to say about all your books I've read so far. They keep me up until my eyes start hurting from exhaustion just to fall asleep and wake up to start reading them again. Good job. ^_^