[bksvol-discuss] Three More Books I'll be Scanning
- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:28:59 -0400
Hi, all.
I received the following books yesterday:Bimbos of the Death Sun and the sequel
Zombies in the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb and D.A by Connie willis.
I'll be scanning them in the next few weeks... When I get my scanner back.
Please let me know if any of you want to validate these. Synopses are below.
Christina
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
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?
D.A by Connie Willis
Some high school kids would do anything to be an IASA space cadet, but not
Theodora Baumgarten in Willis's cheerfully tongue-in-cheek SF novella. "There's
no air, you're squashed into a ship the size of a juice can, and it takes years
to get anywhere interesting. If you... aren't killed first by a meteor
or a solar flare or a systems malfunction." But somehow, without submitting an
application, Theodora is accepted to the Academy. Soon, she's green with
space sickness aboard the Academy space station (named, appropriately enough,
the Robert A. Heinlein), learning the ropes with a class of robust, gung-ho
cadets. Getting out will require solving the mystery of how she got into the
Academy in the first place, but it might have something to do with the
annotation
"D.A." in her station records. Willis (Inside Job) turns a cherished SF theme
completely inside out.
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