Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: busy
  • Music: The theme from Pokemon X.

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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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!