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Anyone who has been to a con(vention), any con, will recognize at least one thing from their own experience. Full-of-themselves speakers, attendees being *very* different from at home, murdered guests... murdered guests? Someone has been murdered at the annual SF/Fantasy con, but who, from the crowd of dragonslayers, aliens, faeries, Starfleet crewmen, Big Name Fans, Scot tourists, college professors, and incognito embarrassed local authors, dunnit? Set in the 1980s, as a parody alone this is one of the funnier books I've ever read. As a mystery, the setting makes for quite a distractor for the investigator of the murder (who is quite entertained by the con-goers). My guess as to the killer was wrong but the actual villain was quite plausible. I'm not surprised this is an award winner.


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Bimbos of the Death Sun Jay Omega Sharyn McCrumb 9780345483027 Books Reviews

If you've ever been to a Sci-Fi/Fantasy convention, you will either smile knowingly at how many of the folk in this novel you recognize or cringe at how many you recognize. The storyline takes place at a weekend "con" amongst the devoted fen of science fiction and fantasy genres. A popular but childish and petty author, Appin Dungannon, is set to appear as the guest of honor courtesy of his character Tratyn Runewind, a silver-haired, con-girl fantasy of a Viking. The foil is that Dungannon hates Runewind with a passion and isn't afraid to show it. This nasty quirk leaves Dungannon at strange odds with the character's devoted following and, by extension, his own livelihood. Hunkering down inside his hotel suite, Dungannon prepares to end his successful series and runs afoul of a fanatical devoutee. An investigation ensues bringing in the local gendarmes who are amused and befuddled by the outlandish costumes and temporary lifestyle of the attendees. A local author is Shanghai'd into helping out after Dungannon's demise and the investigation wends its way through the rest of the book.

The premise is plausible and good for a laugh, the book is a short, easy read - something fun to do on a Saturday and/or Sunday. The writing is not "tight" or "driven" but rather fun and, much like a convention itself, a good distraction for the weekend.
I loved this book! It's a dead-on view of science fiction conventions. The technology mentioned in the story has changed, but conventions themselves-- not so much. The academic who wrote a science fiction book (the title referenced BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN) who lives in fear his colleague will discover his pseudonym makes a great protagonist for this mystery set at a mythical convention. And really, one point of the story is that these people are smart and tolerant and try not to judge people based on looks. They're just a little obsessed, that's all.

A friend loaned me a print copy. I would have bought the version if the paragraphs actually indented, but why should I pay for something that is that difficult to read? Thank goodness for the free sample option. Someone needs to fix this problem with older books being released to the !

ADDENDUM
They fixed the version! It looks great, and it even has a table of contents that links. I don't know why the link above goes to the UK version. There is a US version if you look for it in the store. I just bought it, in fact.
First this is not one of Sharyn McCrumb's ballad novels. It is not that deep or that shadowy. But just because you like the Ballad novels does not mean that Bimbos of the Death Sun is not enjoyable. In fact there is a kernel in this book about an author trapped into writing just one sort of book. It is not a pretty picture.

When this book was written, and not that long ago, an engineering professor teases his girl friend with a doctorate in English Literature that her department will not always have to depend on sending notes to each other and will soon send messages with the speed of light by computer. He is not being sarcastic. One of my neighbor's children liked the book, but had to have a floppy disc explained to her. Technology changes constantly and fast. But we humans do not change all that much. One of the things we humans know that has not changed, is to never judge a book by its cover, and we still do it.

The whole book takes place within a Syfy convention, and although I've never been to one, I could identify with all of the people there, even the engineer and the english professor. I love fantasy books and Star Trek, even, as here, before there was more than one generation. The characters in Bimbos of the Death Sun are likeable, even the poor Scottish folk singer, startled to be sharing an elevator with a young woman in blue body paint and a skimpy dress. His tour of America did not lead him to expect anything like his fellow guest in that hotel, that weekend. I even liked Marian, the English professor who feels she has outgrown her fandom years and is a bit defensive about her years in something she obviously loved and left.

I liked this book enough to want to reread it after several years. It can be read as a cozy mystery, there is a mystery within all of the trolls and fairies and space ships. It can be read as a study of the culture of science fiction and fantasy, and dragon's and dungeon and war gamers, and Doctor Who fans. I love them all, even if I've never been to a convention, and would be an outsider if I did. The point of course is that even if the reader never read The Hobbit, Mists of Avalon, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, this is still an enjoyable way to spend an evening.
This is obviously an early work by the author. As such it's not bad, the story moves well and the characters are engaging. She does paint a bleak picture of the fans as ostracized losers, however, that also describes her non-fan characters. One must conclude she either has a bleak view of people or was just going through a rough patch in the1980s. Still, I enjoyed it. The jokes were funny and it took me back to cons of yesteryear when fandom was a smaller and more intimate club.
Anyone who has been to a con(vention), any con, will recognize at least one thing from their own experience. Full-of-themselves speakers, attendees being *very* different from at home, murdered guests... murdered guests? Someone has been murdered at the annual SF/Fantasy con, but who, from the crowd of dragonslayers, aliens, faeries, Starfleet crewmen, Big Name Fans, Scot tourists, college professors, and incognito embarrassed local authors, dunnit? Set in the 1980s, as a parody alone this is one of the funnier books I've ever read. As a mystery, the setting makes for quite a distractor for the investigator of the murder (who is quite entertained by the con-goers). My guess as to the killer was wrong but the actual villain was quite plausible. I'm not surprised this is an award winner.