"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

[boxlawyer.livejournal.com]

I still don't know what to think about the "zombie kangaroos stole my son" business. It resonated way too closely to what actually happened with Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, right down to the media (being Mahir) treating what they had to say as being hysterical or just downright delusional that anyone would believe it. Was I the only one who left the story squirming at Mahir's thoughts in relation to that? Were we meant to think that about Mahir?

It was unfortunate because I was really enjoying the novella until then, and the fact that the Chamberlains' story is added just to give the story a bit of colour made me squirm a bit.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I am so very sorry. I actually know about what happened with the Chamberlains beyond just "it was a punchline, ha ha," and the way they were treated by the news breaks my heart. That wasn't what I was trying to invoke at all—it was meant to be a comment on how some people will always choose fear, and now that some people are pointing out the connection, I just sort of want to knock my head against things.

What happened to the Chamberlains was a tragedy and a crime. I'm glad it was finally proven that yes, their child was taken by a wild animal, if only for the fact that it could grant them some piece of mind, even if it doesn't take back the jokes. I didn't mean to invoke that, and I'm really, truly sorry that I did.