"How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea" open thread.

[seanan_mcguire]

I have been asked to create an open thread for discussion of "How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea." As it has been out for a week now (gasp! so soon!), this seems reasonable to me. So here you go: here is an open thread.

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.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I liked that the story showed a place that wasn't America after a world-wide catastrophe, and that not everywhere in the world responded like middle-class Americans did*, and that it worked. It underscored the message of the trilogy nicely, that there is a difference between security to make you safe and security to remind you to be afraid.

I also like the hopeful message with the kangaroos adapting to Kellis-Amberlee, that due to marsupial biology and shorter generations (and being mostly left alone probably helped), they have a leg up, but that their future is possibly humanity's future -- where, yes, zombies are still A Thing, but is not a guaranteed group-killer. And the mixed attitudes towards wildlife versus human development and safety, which seem to echo modern concerns. But with zombies.

* Even in the trilogy, showing that the American poor and those that lived off the grid (intentionally or unintentionally) didn't have the same security culture that the protagonists grew up with (since, even with the Masons making a big deal of being a Normal Family, George and Shaun got used to certain precautions as 'normal' because they could afford security systems and disposable blood tests and so on) was nice.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you liked it. :)