Title: SF Fan, Be Your Own Hero!
Product review: Here's a science fictional love letter to fans from Niven, Pournelle and Flynn, where the readers themselves are the heroes who romp over the villains of the piece to save the world. The story's designed to please faithful sf followers, and is all the more enjoyable for those who know anything about SF fandom. The trio told an audience at the 1991 World Science Fiction Convention that the characters in this novel were composites of 130 fans they knew. Niven and Pournelle caricatured their friends at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (including myself -- "Mike Glider") and Flynn based his contributions on fans he knew on the East Coast.
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