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Sharyn Mccrumb
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Bimbos of the Death Sun |
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English |
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Paperback |
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212 |
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1996-12-28 |
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0345483022 |
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Ballantine Books |
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0.78 pounds |
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0.5 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches |
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Product Description
"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
*Mary Higgins Clark
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD!
"Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today's novelists."
*San Diego Union-Tribune
For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken over a usually ordinary hotel. Now the halls are alive with Trekkies, tech nerds, and fantasy gamers in their Viking finery *all of them eager to hail their hero, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon: a diminutive despot whose towering ego more than compensates for his 5' 1" height . . . and whose gleeful disdain for his fawning fans is legendary.
Hurling insults and furniture with equal abandon, the terrible, tiny author proceeds to alienate ersatz aliens and make-believe warriors at warp speed. But somewhere between the costume contest and the exhibition Dungeons & Dragons game, Dungannon gets done in. While die-hard fans of Dungannon's seemingly endless sword-and-sorcery series wonder how they'll go on and hucksters wonder how much they can get for the dead man's autograph, a hapless cop wonders, Who would want to kill Appin Dungannon? But the real question, as the harried convention organizers know, is Who wouldn't ?
"I loved BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN . . . Beautifully observed, funny, nicely constructed, even compassionate."
*Robert Silverberg
From the Paperback edition.
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mellonhead (USA: TX) (2007/08/23):
Cheeky and simplistic, this is a fun, very light mystery that is really an excuse to describe the culture of sci-fi fandom. I enjoyed it and it was a quick read. I liked the characters, although the most simplistic was really the central character, Dr. Jay Omega. Or, perhaps she's right on the money and I'm still attributing depth to men (specifically engineers) that most don't have.
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