A poll. A deadly serious poll.

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1588215]

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I would have my dog read it and give me a review, like I do with everything I might be tempted to read ironically.

I always leave out details

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Assume the existance of an adventure novel featuring two-fisted SF editor Iago Doom and his Trotskyite dragon Richard Michigan

Searching for the reincarnation of H. Beam Piper.

Re: I always leave out details

[papersky.livejournal.com]

That changed my answer.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Rich needs to be a cat.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Iago needs to be a cat.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

My Dead Cat would read this book, but only to find out how the dragon cooked the editor...

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I would pet the cats.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And possibly also read the book (ironically), but only if there were ticky boxes.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Who? What?

Now, a Trotskyite *cat* . . .

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I meant dragon in this sense:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

If you want a trope, you should buy a trope . . .

Dragons are serious business.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Oh. So, like, to defeat Campbell, the hero must first get through Heinlein?

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I would totally read that book, not sure whether I'd be hoping for awesome badness or amusing irony.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

The inevitable prologue has to start in Iago Doom's Greenwich Village coffeehouse [*] ten years before, with him shouting out "I am SICK and TIRED of you [expletive] BEATNIKS!" perhaps smashing a guitar against the wall a la Animal House before his observation period at Bellevue.

[*] What would be a good name for this place, I wonder? The Inside Set?

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

I have always been fond of The Circle Perk. Used it in a Champions campaign once and have never forgot it.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

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[onyxlynx (from livejournal.com)]

Aren't there Laurell K. Hamilton books that need reading and throwing at walls first?

Monsters from the I.D.

[jamesenge.livejournal.com]

Rick Michigan sounds more like a naive pulp hero, with Iago Doom as his more-sophisticated-but-fated-to-lose villain. That story I might read, though I might misunderstand the ending.

But whoever destroyed I.D. would be Doom's bane, as it were. Which would be weird.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

The other option I choose is "Whut? No, really, WHUT?"

[slrose.livejournal.com]

I would read the reviews and see if any of the other libraries had ordered it.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Misreading that as "Richard Morgan" the first time through made an even more interesting image than you had in mind, I think.

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

I answer this poll ironically.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I wouldn't pay actual _money_ for it, but the notion of a two-fisted SF editor named Iago Doom tickles my funny-bone enough that I'd give it a look if I saw it in a library.

Wasn't there a Trotskyite, or at least Marxist, dragon in first couple of Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" books?

Bruce

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I think his company is called DoomsDay Books.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course, my fondness for the ruler of Latveria may be coloring my views here...

Bruce

[kingwalters.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't read the book itself, but I would read the snarky reviews.

[asyouknow-bob.livejournal.com]

Assuming I recognized who the characters were based on, I'm enough of a completist that I might pick it up at a library sale or something - but it would probably be a very, very long time before it rose to the top of my TBR pile.

[pameladean]

I would read it if an author I trusted had written it. The odds of that are not very high, I think.

P.

[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

You never know. Maybe it could be done as a sequel to Atlanta Nights.