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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tylik

May 23 2012, 15:14:08 UTC 5 years ago

Okay, so I had a bunch of stuff that really I should have been doing (especially since I'm abandoning my research student for four days between when I leave and when she leaves - we're sitting next to eachother getting pylab set up on her machine with a really awesomely distracting seminar on recent development going on in the auditorium right next to us - yeah, okay, I'm kind of bragging...) but instead I downloaded Blackout the moment I could, saying to myself "I'll read it on the plane tomorrow...!"

Ahem. Anyhow, all read now and I was only five minutes late this morning. (Though I only spent an hour doing forms practice this morning, promising myself I'd make it up later today. Hey, it could happen! After I get the peppers planted!)

And it was awesome, and I love it. I will love it even more when I've had a chance to go back over it and savor it. (Perhaps tomorrow, when I am stranged in O'Hare...)

I want to think more about the gradual release of information as it stands at the end of the book. Hm.

And inside George. So... self protective. Hm.

Minor note: There are some technical issues with the neuroscience as presented. Which is probably only a bugaboo of mine because I'm a neurobiologist. But, it occurred to me, especially as you are one step removed socially through a bunch of people* if you ever want someone to consult on the neuroscience side of things, I probably could at least help in the production as of technically accurate as far as we understand it and it's not that much sort of hand-waving. (Long term memory storage involves at least changes in protein conformation - it's not all electrical signals. A protein dynamics was just about my favorite thing ever back when I was a biochemist, I think this is about the coolest thing ever. Right up there with changes in ion channel conformation.)

* Folks? Back me up? Tell her I'm not craz- ...Um, tell her I'm harml- ...Um... Yeah, tell her something.

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