When she first met Jay, he was similarly afflicted (though weedy rather than chubby), and with her help he turned into quite the dish himself. Beautiful All Along: Marion was chubby in her fandom days, but started exercising and taking more care in her appearance.Back from the Dead: Pat Malone in Zombies, until he reveals the real reason (see Faking the Dead, below).Barbarian Hero: This, and pretty much every other trope that applies to Conan, applies to Dungannon's Tratyn Runewind series.
Asshole Victim: Both of the victims are portrayed as arrogant jerks, but both get little moments that make them look slightly more sympathetic.Ascended Fanboy: Several of the Lanthanides went on to become famous.Tropes used in Bimbos of the Death Sun include: Malone is murdered that night, and once again Jay and Marion attempt to investigate. They accompany him to the reunion/opening of the capsule, where the Lanthanides' prodigal son, embittered former fan Pat Malone, has apparently come Back from the Dead and threatens to expose devastating secrets about his former friends.
It has Jay and Marion learn that one of their fellow professors is a member of the Lanthanides, a group of SF fans who fancied themselves up-and-coming legends and buried a time capsule before parting ways in the late 1950s. Some time between the costume contest and the celebrity Dungeons & Dragons game, however, Dungannon is murdered, and Jay and Marion do a little investigating of their own.įive years later, McCrumb wrote a sequel, Zombies of the Gene Pool. There, they meet the onerous Appin Dungannon, author of a Conan-like series of novels and owner of an incredibly short fuse and colossal ego. Though he attempts to bury his Old Shame, his girlfriend Marion Farley, the college's assistant professor of English, books him as a guest at Rubicon, a local SF convention. His novel was a serious, hard SF story, but by the time the second-rate publishing house got through with it, it was saddled with a Frank Frazetta-esque cover and the title Bimbos of the Death Sun. What very few people realize is that he is also Jay Omega, one-time science fiction author - and that's exactly how Jay wants it. James Owen Mega is just an ordinary guy, a professor of electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. Award-winning 1988 Whodunit by Sharyn McCrumb which combines a serious murder mystery with the scariest world of all - fandom.
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