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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vixyish

May 24 2012, 01:57:58 UTC 5 years ago

I don't think there is a Zombie Hive Mind, but I think the pack behavior of the zombies was based on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing

Which is not telepathic, but would sorta look like it.

When I first came across this I was like "SEANAN SEANAN OMG THE THING YOUR ZOMBIES DO IS AN ACTUAL REAL THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD OMG!" And she was like "...um. Yes. I know." :D

archangelbeth

May 24 2012, 02:06:03 UTC 5 years ago

Interesting!

(Is it bad I'd love to see that described in-character? Probably be easier for me to process, too. (Or it may just be that I didn't get enough sleep and therefore cannot brain well...))