Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, 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: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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geekhyena

November 11 2013, 19:28:30 UTC 3 years ago

The head of my department (animal biology at UCD) says half the department's already read it and the other half is planning on it. It's very interesting when it comes to transgenics and the ethics, certainly. Also the sight of this distinguished, very much no-nonsense professor squeeing when he saw I'd brought my copy to class was disconcerting yet adorable.

Also, loving Dr. Cale. She's quite madly brilliant - you have a good track-record of creating awesome, badass scientists like that. And the dogs are wonderful. Your use of animals is also great ^_^ (I miss Joe from Newsflesh. He was best dog)

My girlfriend and I have been squeeing over this book since we finished it. So awesome!

shanejayell

November 11 2013, 19:53:33 UTC 3 years ago

*lol* I like your Department.

Dr. Cale is one of those great Mira Grant characters. Extremely likeable, but also subtly scary.

geekhyena

November 11 2013, 19:56:56 UTC 3 years ago

UC Davis has a high proportion of professors who fall somewhere on the mad scientist scale, from what I've found. Maybe it's that PhD students get to see a different side than undergrads/the general public. OTOH, you have to be a little mad to do this sort of stuff. (And I spend my days creating mathematical models of beef cattle systems, which requires one to be equal parts animal scientist/computer programmer/statistician, and that tends to not correlate very well with a high degree of mental stability)

And yeah, likeable yet scary. I think that's a Seanan McGuire thing in general. The Luidaeg, Istas, the dragon princesses, Dr. Abbey, Dr. Kimberly, - it's a trend I wholeheartedly adore!