Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller. *Mary Higgins ClarkWINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD!????????"Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today s novelists." *San Diego Union-TribuneFor 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