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Bimbos & Zombies : Bimbos of the Death Sun / Zombies of the Gene Pool

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Marvellous book; mystery with a lot of sci-fi literary history put in. I wanted to share it with the grandson as he is a fan of the newer sci-fi stuff and I wanted him to know the great antecedents.

I doubt that the other fellow who reviewed this book actually read it. More likely he read the inside cover, becuase the plot summations he gave are 90% wrong. He has the names of some of the characters and the basic setting, but everything else he must have made up becuase it bears no resemblance to the actually stories contained in the book. The books are very interest and a fun read, especially for scifi/fantasy fans. I'm not much for mysteries, I only picked up these books becuase the setting for the first book (Bimbos of the Death Sun) sounded interesting (A Fantasy/SciFi Convention). The mystery was ok, not really the strong part of the story, but the characters and dead on description of Wargamers, Trekies, RPG players and other conventioneers is the most entertaining part. The story is only 135 pages long and a quick fun read with a decent mystery to boot. The second story in the book, Zombies of the Gene Pool, is very interesting and better written than the first. It's a very interesting analysis of the scifi genre and fans, with some interesting fanzine history included. The mystery is interesting all the way to the end, where it fell apart for me. The last 2 chapters were a disappointment, but still didn't take away from an enjoyable quick read over all. I guess I also loved the majority of the book so much, the ending just couldn't live up to the rest of the book in my mind. Zombies is longer than Bimbos by about 60 pages, but is a better written story in my estimation, still they both are really enjoyable and I just purchase another copy for my brother to enjoy (he's a big comic and scifi/fantasy guy). I highly reccomend these books singley or in this combination hardcover, they are worth the read (I finished them in a night apiece before going to bed.)

This book is two stories in one.One is Bimbos of the Death Sun which takes place at a Sci-Fi convention and the other Zombies of the Gene Pool which takes place after Bimbos.In Bimbos of the Death Sun an famous Sci-Fi author Appin Dungannon is murdered. A professor Dr.James Owens Mega(whos has just wrote his first SF novel which came out in paperback).His book Bimbos of the Death sun was a big hit.AT the convention no one knows he's the author until that they find out his pen name is Jay Omega. Appin Dungannon was killed in a restroom during a covention. Jay goes on a search to find out who killed Dungannon. Throughout his quest he meets people who have liked his book and seem suspicious.In Zombies of the Gene Pool Jay Omega and fellow writers go to a cabin to contimplate their novels.A strange man Murders one of the writers. Jay and the remaining writers must find out who killed their friend. This was an okay read. What spoiled it for me was the detail about the Sci-Fi convention. I liked the fact that thius novel tried to combine Science Fiction with Mystery.