Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • 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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umadoshi

July 23 2013, 16:20:16 UTC 3 years ago

The whole novella was great, and I love how much fun you clearly had with the zombie kangaroos! You have such a particular knack for conveying sheer geeky delight in things without it taking me out of the story in the slightest. ^_^

Because Georgia is forever-and-always my favorite, I especially loved everything Mahir said about her, which I'd been basically dying for ever since you mentioned on Twitter that he'd be talking about her. There were tears and glee in equal measure. If that's the last we ever get of anyone talking about her in canon, then it's a good way to end.

I won't say my favorite thing he said about her was the story about talking her out of writing an in-depth series on energy drinks, but I laughed and laughed. Oh, Georgia. I love how aware he is of her weaknesses and how much he loves her anyway. He's the best kind of friend.

(IIRC, he never refers to her and Shaun as siblings at all when he's talking or thinking about them? Is it safe to think that's deliberate on his part?)

And just, oh, Mahir. It was lovely to spend so much time in his head, where he's just as dry-witted and delightful as always. Of course he has staff who think chloroforming and kidnapping him is the right thing to do! And all of the new characters were great, with Olivia being especially awesome.

If I'm not careful I'll write a really epic comment, though, so: it was so good to get back into that 'verse, even briefly. Thank you. ^_^

(ZOMBIE KANGAROOS.)

seanan_mcguire

July 23 2013, 16:27:09 UTC 3 years ago

Mahir's wordings are very intentionally precise. He was always a little bothered by the sibling act, because they seemed too close for that. He figured out what they'd really been to each other shortly after Georgia died, and began very carefully editing his thinking, because he owed them the consideration of thinking of them as they truly were and had been, not as he'd assumed them to be.

Georgia is my favorite, too. But oh, I love Mahir.

umadoshi

July 23 2013, 16:37:07 UTC 3 years ago

Ahhh, good. I figured it had to be intentional, but you know what they say about assumptions... ^^; And thank you for the elaboration, too--I'd actually been curious for a while about when/how exactly he figured out what their relationship really was. It did seem like he knew in Deadline.

...and I just got all teary. Everything about their friendship makes me so happy. It shouldn't feel so rare to see a friendship with that much mutual respect, but it does. I'm glad she had that.