33. What is Vnn Bnt, why shouldn't I talk about her, and why are there those funny stars in her name?
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This article is from the Science Fiction Fandom FAQ, by Vicki Rosenzweig vr@panix.com with numerous contributions by others.
33. What is Vnn Bnt, why shouldn't I talk about her, and why are there those funny stars in her name?
She is the author of a very bad novel. She claims it is "quantum
fiction" rather than science fiction, so I suppose we could argue
that it's off-topic, except that isn't the point. The point is that
some people (who may be aliases for the author or her publicist) who
had not otherwise participated in this newsgroup came in, posted at
great length about how wonderful the book was, and precipitated quite
a bit of flamage. The stars are in the name because at one time she
or her supporters seemed to be searching the Usenet feed for her
name. (If you care that much, the stars in the first name are a's,
and the stars in her last name are an o and an a, respectively.)
The novel, Fl*ght, seems to have been self-published, and is the
only book I have seen or heard of in which the publisher faked the
Library of Congress cataloguing-in-publication data, replacing a
simple set of material that might be useful to librarians with a
badly written blurb.
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