Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Halestorm, "Freak Like Me."

When will you rise...and when will you fall?

I've spoken before about my love of fanfic, and how it allows you to do things you can't necessarily do "in canon." One of those things, one of my favorite things, is the alternate universe. What would have happened if Toby had never become a fish? If Thomas had convinced Alice to go back to the Covenant with him, instead of leaving it for her?

If someone else had been the first to die?

I have written an alternate ending to Feed, picking up at what was originally chapter twenty-five. It's called Fed, and I'm very pleased with it, in part because it shows that no, the original ending wasn't the worst possible outcome. This was.

Fed is kindly being hosted by Orbit, thus preventing me from becoming a blibbering mess in the week leading up to the release of Blackout, and for right now, you can download and read by liking the Facebook page they've set up specifically for this purpose. (It's getting a one-week Facebook exclusive for marketing purposes, and I surely would appreciate it if you went and hit the "like" button.) This is full of spoilers, so I recommend against reading it if you haven't read Feed.

Rise up while you can.
Tags: blackout, book promotion, feed, mira grant, pandemic time, short fiction, silliness, zombies
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robling_t

May 18 2012, 20:50:05 UTC 5 years ago

That's the ending I was so afraid you were heading for and was pleasantly surprised not to get, for what that may be worth...

thedragonweaver

May 19 2012, 03:26:56 UTC 5 years ago

The actual ending was so epically correct that I put Feed first on my Hugo ballot. I would not have done so with this ending. Not that this is a wrong ending, per se, but the one you stuck in the book was amazeballs. With breadsticks.

seanan_mcguire

May 19 2012, 03:35:15 UTC 5 years ago

This was never the ending. I wrote this because I wanted AU, and because people kept saying how the end was the bleakest bleak that every bleaked a bleak.

thedragonweaver

May 22 2012, 15:34:50 UTC 5 years ago

I figured this. It's in the "alternate history" variants, but it *is* the more obvious one, so I'm very glad you decided to go with the WTFBBQ version instead. Or maybe it's the "dammit, I was going to put this down and go to sleep and I can't do that NOW!" ending.