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!

jenfullmoon

November 12 2013, 07:07:26 UTC 3 years ago

As a UCD person, I'm happy to hear the book is catching on around campus with those who would actually know!

geekhyena

November 12 2013, 16:19:32 UTC 3 years ago

Me too! At ISU, even in animal science, I was usually the only person interested in this stuff. Glad UCD is so different. Out of curiosity, what department are you in?

jenfullmoon

November 12 2013, 17:49:40 UTC 3 years ago

I'm alumni and a clerical lackey, so unfortunately I'm not in an actual school department like a science. Oh well....

geekhyena

November 12 2013, 20:09:22 UTC 3 years ago

Hey, clerical lackeys are awesome! I used to be one while I was an undergrad. Clerks make the world go 'round! *fistbump* I used to clerk at a legal office, and I was good at it. Then they fired me because I wouldn't skip class to go to work, and I was the recipient of a panicked phone call after that when they realized they had no idea where stuff actually was. My response was.....short, if not eloquent. ^_^

groblek

November 12 2013, 20:49:37 UTC 3 years ago

Heh. As professional support staff, I fully agree with the importance of clerks. Also, future mad scientists take note; always listen to your tech, especially if they start running. :)

Boo on your former legal office. My response to a request like that is along the lines of "Sure, I can help you with that, here are my consultant's rates (insert obscene amount of money)"

geekhyena

November 12 2013, 21:59:20 UTC 3 years ago

I wish I had done something like that, but it was my replacement calling me and they called me during dinner. I was cranky >_< If it had been my former boss.......I would have been more eloquent but less polite.

And yeah, good minions are to be respected and cared for. They're the ones keeping the world running while you go off creating works of SCIENCE! (I've got great respect for minions. I'm one for the next 5 years, and most of my previous jobs have been in that track)

jenfullmoon

November 12 2013, 21:08:08 UTC 3 years ago

Aw, thanks. Your old office sounds crazy, though...sheesh, people! At least at my work, they let the students leave :P

geekhyena

November 12 2013, 21:22:22 UTC 3 years ago

Yeah, my old boss was great at being a lawyer, less so at personnel management. She wanted college students because she didn't have to pay them a living wage, but she didn't want to deal with the fact that we had classes and couldn't suddenly change our schedules at her whim. I was not going to miss my upper-level statistics class and sacrifice my homework time just because she didn't want to hire on someone else. Funny thing though, if she'd've waited a month, she could have had me all summer, but she wasn't expecting me to say no when she demanded I change my work schedule. *shrugs* Then again, this was the same woman who hired on a full-time PR/marketing person, then had her only doing clerical work, then gave said person the offer of "come a few hours a week for the same pay and they aren't set hours" instead of the full-time gig she'd been promised, and was utterly shocked when said person said no. *eyeroll* I think lawyers just aren't used to hearing no from people - my mom's an ex-lawyer and hoo boy is she like that.