As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.

Ugh Ugh Ugh. That is really foul. Foul enough that I regret ever recommending the story to anyone, and I think it's been permanently tainted for me.

What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?

Chris, I still read James Ellroy(Even though it makes me feel kinda dirty) so Neil Gaiman would have to rip out a hooker's beating heart and eat it, before I'd think "Argh...too sexist!" He doesn't, does he?

OMG, finally got to Blackout by Mira Grant last night.

SO. GOOD. Such a satisfying conclusion. I'll be reviewing it formally in the next couple of days, but oh, it was good. And fun.

And our own P-C is in the dedication. I teared a teeny bit and squeed when I saw it. Yay, P-C!

I'm so excited about the movie option for the trilogy. Dan and I were playing "Cast the Book" last night. (We were also playing it for the HBO American Gods series, too. WE R GEEK COUPLE.)

PC - I tweeted this, but didn't report it here. I was at a scifi/epidemiology panel over the weekend where the Newsflesh trilogy was specifically called out as "getting the medical science right." Thought you'd enjoy that.

When I interviewed Seanan, I was totally impressed by her meticulous research. I mean, she has the CDC on speed-dial.

What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?

Yeah, I'm curious about this, too. I liked the story, and it didn't ever strike me as misogynistic or anything. A touch understated and wonderfully creepy for that, but not Violence Against Women.

And our own P-C is in the dedication. I teared a teeny bit and squeed when I saw it. Yay, P-C!

Yay!

I'm so excited about the movie option for the trilogy. Dan and I were playing "Cast the Book" last night.

And who are your picks? Seanan wants Allison Scagliotti for George and Jason Dohring for Shaun. There's some damn good photomanips for it.

I was at a scifi/epidemiology panel over the weekend where the Newsflesh trilogy was specifically called out as "getting the medical science right." Thought you'd enjoy that.

Nice!

I mean, she has the CDC on speed-dial.

They actually fangirled her when she called because of "The Black Death."

In other news, I don't understand the appeal of The Dark Is Rising and I hope the series gets better?

I've been trying to work out why I'm having such a strong response. Part of it is definitely the unpleasant surprise of finding something so ugly in a story I'd enjoyed, by a writer I admire.

Beyond that, a big part of it is that we have so little context for what happens in LA, and what little we do casts it in a definitely sexual light. There's the fact that Tink is the one who contacts the narrator, making what happens implicitly her fault. There's the parallel it's implied we should draw with what happened in the Silver City, where the person who left their lover was killed for it.

And there's the fact that, unlike the angel murderer, the act of killing seems to have no effect on the narrator. Either he's in a fugue state, or this literally means nothing to him, and he's lived ten years since with no indication it's something he thinks about.

Is it possible for necrophiliac rape to be non-political?

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And there's the fact that, unlike the angel murderer, the act of killing seems to have no affect on the narrator. Either he's in a fugue state, or this literally means nothing to him, and he's lived ten years since with no indication it's something he thinks about.

I always assumed the narrator was in a fugue state. (Caveat: it's been a few years since I read Murder Mysteries, so I may be forgetting something.)

Is it possible for necrophiliac rape to be non-political?

Speaking as someone who reads a LOT of horror fiction, I think so.