Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Taylor Swift, "Long Live."

BLACKOUT open thread!

To celebrate the release of Blackout, 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. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

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, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: blackout, mira grant, zombies
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seanan_mcguire

May 23 2012, 15:18:41 UTC 5 years ago

I so wish I'd known you were a neurobiologist! I did the best I could with the science I had, and yeah, I got a bunch wrong (although have you seen the electrical imaging studies with rats? Holy crap, that's why it wasn't nearly as fringe as it looked on the surface). I will totally tap you the next time I need to do anything with brains.

Actually, brains. How are you on the effects of toxoplasmosis on the human brain?

tylik

May 23 2012, 15:56:40 UTC 5 years ago

Honestly, it would be a lot of hand-waving in any case, because the kind of mimicking development* is something we totally don't know how to do. I'd like to think that by the time we got there we'd suck less at cloning, but where's my flying bike, anyway?

I've only followed toxoplasmosa casually, but yeah, at least somewhat - like the recent stuff on risk taking behavior? Fun stuff! Do you have a more defined question?

* That's really the biggie - making an adult from scratch? You'd have to have some way of stimulating the brain to make it think it had gone through years in that body, because the brain wires itself from experience at a really, really basic level.

seanan_mcguire

May 23 2012, 15:59:07 UTC 5 years ago

Semi. Can you email me?

tylik

May 23 2012, 16:45:26 UTC 5 years ago

Sent you a note thru your site...