Bimbos of the Death Sun (Jay Omega 1)

Bimbos of the Death Sun (Jay Omega 1)

Sharyn McCrumb
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Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun is a strange work. Ostensibly a mystery novel complete with a murder and an array of suspects with plausible motives, it won an Edgar Award in 1988 for Best Original Paperback Mystery. Although we follow the plot, curious to know who killed famed novelist Appin Dungannon and why, the fact is that what happens in this novel is in some ways much less important than where it happens. Bimbos of the Death Sun is not a mystery that merely happens to be set at a science fiction and fantasy convention; it's a novel about a particular, peculiar American sub.

Ostensibly a mystery novel complete with a murder and an array of suspects with plausible motives, Bimbos of the Death Sun won an Edgar Award in 1988 for Best Original Paperback Mystery. While we follow the plot eagerly, curious to know who killed famed novelist Appin Dungannon and why, the fact is that what happens in this novel is in some ways much less important than where it happens. Bimbos of the Death Sun is not a mystery that just so happens to also be science fiction and fantasy; it's a novel about a particular American subculture as well in which Trekkies and Dungeon Masters convene—complete with their hobbit costumes and the like—to buy and sell memorabilia.

The novel is in fact a parody of that culture and as such, it has garnered ambivalent reviews from the science fiction and fantasy community that it caricatures. The perspective of the novel is decidedly that of an outsider, a protagonist named James Owen Mega, who—under the pseudonym Jay...

جلد:
1
سال:
2002
ناشر کتب:
RosettaBooks
زبان:
english
ISBN 10:
0795309627
ISBN 13:
9780795309625
سیریز:
Jay Omega
فائل:
EPUB, 203 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2002
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