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: Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
2012-05-23 07:34:00

Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
2012-05-23 07:34:00

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

archangelbeth

May 24 2012, 00:43:45 UTC 5 years ago

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*devours book in... a little over a couple hours, SCLORP*

My one complaint is... Not enough about the Zombie Hive Mind! I wanna know if the virus has some kind of telepathic neural resonance going on! O:D (Which, absent the brain-'cording bit, was my first speculation on how they'd gotten a self-aware clone with memories.)

But if there is/are future novella(s) planned, maybe my question will be answered there. O:>

wendyzski

May 24 2012, 01:33:22 UTC 5 years ago

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I think the novella she is talking about is The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, where The Rising hits during ComicCon.

archangelbeth

May 24 2012, 02:05:01 UTC 5 years ago

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!!!!!!!!!

wendyzski

May 24 2012, 02:08:49 UTC 5 years ago

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She was auctioning off a couple of deaths in it a while back, but
I don't remember when or where it was due out

archangelbeth

May 24 2012, 02:12:58 UTC 5 years ago

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Ahhh, I do vaguely remember that now. Eek.

chatworthy

May 24 2012, 03:56:31 UTC 5 years ago

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Can't wait for that one. Life Imitating Art Department: There's gonna be a big Zombie Game at the football stadium a couple blocks from Comic-Con. Big. Pricey. Overproduced. Fun. Probably way too late to work into the novella, though.

Elapsed time, start to finish: about 10 hours. Gotta breathe now before I re-read.

And congratulations to Seanan on selling the film rights!

literateknits

May 24 2012, 13:26:45 UTC 5 years ago

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Seanan could be talking about the novella she has slated for next year, I think it's called
"How Green the Sky, How Blue the Sea"

seanan_mcguire

May 24 2012, 14:40:42 UTC 5 years ago

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That one's likely to deal a bit more with mob behavior in zombies, but honestly, the people in the world don't fully understand the mechanism, so it's not going to be explained clearly to the reader.