Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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HALF-OFF RAGNAROK open thread!

To celebrate the release of Half-Off Ragnarok, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you've have had time, while others received review copies.

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.
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tylik

March 10 2014, 02:11:18 UTC 3 years ago

Just a fricken related side comment - a friend of mine's doctoral project is on the responses of frogs in Guatemala vs. the frog populations in NE Ohio and how they deal with the same pathogen.

Amusingly, the frog populations in NE Ohio have at least partial resistance, and her working hypothesis is that the pathogen doesn't deal well with winter, which gives the frogs immune systems a chance to get the upper hand. (Okay, I spent most of the conversation kicking around a possible mathematical model of the population dynamics. So I remember more about the experiments dynamics than other details of the pathogen. I should ask her. And then I should ask if she'd like some help building a model.)

vixyish

March 14 2014, 18:09:35 UTC 3 years ago

Okay that's pretty awesome. I think you should get your friend a copy of this book as a present. :D

(Also yay, a chance to use this icon!)

tylik

March 14 2014, 18:15:13 UTC 3 years ago

Oh, that's a thought! I should ask her out to lunch, too - we kind of lost touch during the worst of my spine stuff, and she's pretty awesome generally.

seanan_mcguire

March 26 2014, 19:18:51 UTC 3 years ago

Oh my gosh that's AWESOME.

tylik

March 27 2014, 14:27:26 UTC 3 years ago

...by coincidence, she's giving a seminar on her frog pathogen stuff today. Would you like me to ask her for a copy of the slides? (Sadly, they aren't taping this one.)

seanan_mcguire

March 27 2014, 18:15:54 UTC 3 years ago

No, but I will be delighted by their existence. :)