Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: tired
  • Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Dani California."

"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea" open thread.

I have been asked to create an open thread for discussion of "How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea." As it has been out for a week now (gasp! so soon!), this seems reasonable to me. So here you go: here is an open thread.

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.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a 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, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
Tags: mira grant, open thread, short fiction, zombies
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Shauna Hoogland

July 23 2013, 16:06:17 UTC 3 years ago

As a born and bred Radelaidean I got so excited as I thought I was about to see little old Adelaide post zombie apocalypse, something I can honestly say I never thought to see in any form if media ever! So I must admit to being a leetle disappointed when I realised we were pretty much skipping past Adelaide and going straight to the fence. I got over this pretty quickly once we got to the mob of zombie Roos!

Loved everything about this story, it was entertaining, and unique and it was great to spend some more time with Mahir.

Some of the comments made by the Aussie characters about people coming to Australia resonated quite uncomfortably with me considering our current humanitarian issues with refugees and so called "boat people." Obviously a zombie apocalypse could shake the rights and wrongs of this issue up quite a bit, but it still felt quite uncomfortable hearing the "good" characters baldly stating that they didn't want any more people to come to Australia. I'd be interested to know if this was a purposeful choice in the writing or something I'm bringing to my reading of the story!

You gotta love it when you get bonus social justice commentary along with your zombie wombat.

seanan_mcguire

July 23 2013, 16:09:52 UTC 3 years ago

Sorry we skipped Adelaide so much! Had to get to the fence eventually (and I really piddled about a lot longer on the plane and at the house than I'd expected).

It was an intentional inversion, yeah, and I'm sorry if that didn't come through. I wanted to sort of point out, a bit, that we favor people who can buy their way in over people who really need to be there, socially, and that this would change if money became less important than security and freedom. I also just really wanted to present a non-American, non-European view of the zombie uprising. I do hope I managed.