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

To celebrate the release of Chimera, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Because nothing says "Thanksgiving" like "tapeworms." Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you have had time, and I'd really, really rather book discussion (sometimes including spoilers) didn't crop up on other posts.

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: chimera, discussion post, mira grant
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  • 14 comments

dayfal

November 24 2015, 15:00:11 UTC 1 year ago

So excited to go home and read it!

shanejayell

November 24 2015, 16:05:13 UTC 1 year ago

Just finished it this morning. A good, satisfying end to a great series.

Random observation: One thing I really like in your books is there is never a 'reset button' ending. With this, NEWSFLESH, the CRypto-zooology books and so on, things have consequences. We never see a magic cure all and everything returning to the status quo. Just like in this one....

lillian13

November 24 2015, 18:13:18 UTC 1 year ago

THANKS FOR THE REMINDER! (Heads off to B&N instead of starting to clean house.)

jenk

November 25 2015, 19:46:27 UTC 1 year ago

I gather not many people are reading yet?

I was surprised by the reference to "terror cell" because the news media has me conditioned to think of that as a group only interested in causing terror. But really, terrorists have goals other than causing terror. We just don't always credit them.

marabett

November 26 2015, 23:36:26 UTC 1 year ago

The depiction of the quarantine camp was heartbreakingly realistic. Poor Carrie.

Juniper was adorable! They'll have to work very hard to cast her perfectly when the books are turned into movies. :) I admit to being surprised that Sal was essentially turned into a mom, but it worked.

I confess I was hoping that the original Joyce would make it through and join up with our heroes, but was glad to see that, at least, she had accepted Sal for who she was before fading into the ether.

I was SO hoping that Sherman would meet a grisly end. Glad my hopes were not disappointed! REALLY didn't like that guy. Especially glad we didn't have to go through a period where he used his pheromones to turn Sal into his slave, or something along those lines, ick.

Any hope for a sequel? :)

sleightedge

November 29 2015, 17:15:34 UTC 1 year ago

Sherman got the end that he deserved, but I was also hoping that Dr. Banks would get a similarly bloody death. Every time that manipulative bastard opens his mouth I just want one of the characters to rip out his tongue. But I suppose it is in character for him to weasel his way out of things in the end, *sigh*.

jenk

December 2 2015, 18:57:01 UTC 1 year ago

Yes. This. :)

coloursofdusk

November 29 2015, 19:27:17 UTC 1 year ago

Just finished! A satisfying ending to a really interesting series, thank you for writing it!

Fishy is my favourite, glad he was able to save the day more than once. Also really good to see Sal developing her personality now that she doesn't have to try and be Sally.

kittycat22

November 30 2015, 13:05:57 UTC 1 year ago

Thoroughly enjoyed the finale of this series!!

I will also share here something I said on Twitter (my account is sadly locked out of necessity so you would not have seen it there...plus I assume your mentions are chock full!)

"Honestly @seananmcguire has weaponized the phrase "good dog" and whenever I read it in a Mira novel I get scared. I feel this pleases her. 😒"

SO GLAD Beverly & Minnie made it through!!

Also I *adored* the family Sal built for herself and the way this ended.

Basically, this was incredible and I hope we one day get Parasitology novellas as we have been fortunate enough to get Newsflesh novellas. <3

Can't wait for Every Heart a Doorway!

Hardy Himmelhund

November 30 2015, 19:43:59 UTC 1 year ago

Dear Seanan,

once more thanks for yet another very good read. Some random thoughts:

- Thanks for not killing off Fishy in some boss fight. It was also very nice of you to include a classic jump'n'run level for him.
- I really liked that in the end Sal and the Colonel came to an understanding.
- Nathan strikes me as a little to good to be true. But with all the terrible things happening Sal deserved some reliability.
- For a while, when Sal's predatory tapeworm-children came up, I was expecting Doc Cale to save the world with yet another parasite, one that kills or suppresses the other worms.
- Will all Mira Grant heroes end up in hiding?
- Does Mira already have another novel project in development?
- How about a zombies vs. bureaucrats novella? Though it might be difficult to tell the difference between the two.


taylweaver

December 6 2015, 00:48:44 UTC 1 year ago

So I haven't finished the book yet, but I just want to say... you have a character named Batya! Seeing that name completely threw me out of the story, and even more so when I read the line about Batya wearing a snood and carrying a gun.

And thus I realized that yes, us Jews really *are* underrepresented in SF/F stories. I guess I just got used to people like me not existing in my favorite genre to the point where I stopped noticing our absence a long time ago.

So, thanks for doing something to help change that. :)

(Also, the image of batyatoon as a villain's gun-toting sidekick is impressively disturbing.)

batyatoon

December 6 2015, 00:54:54 UTC 1 year ago

(:D?)

seanan_mcguire

December 7 2015, 16:37:09 UTC 1 year ago

She's a hollowed-out meat car, but she was observant when she was a human!

Seriously, though, you're welcome. I just want all my friends to see themselves in fiction.

Just finished chimera and left a little frustrated.....

Ciaran Flanagan

March 12 2016, 20:56:12 UTC 1 year ago

In a good way. I really want a illustrated book of the full "don't go out alone" for my kids. They absolutely love Poetry and know most of their books by heart. Your sub-story is such a nice, if dark, poem that I'm sure they'd absolutely love.