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05-19-2009, 05:13 PM
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/05/femmefatalelsp2.jpg15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes - from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off (http://www.wowinsider.com/tips) to players you'd like to hear more about.
Let's jump right in - because appropriately enough, that's the modus operandi of this week's profile subject, blogger/cartoonist/gag writer/self-proclaimed "older" player/sci-fi writer John Zakour. With a WoW column at Pink Raygun (http://www.pinkraygun.com/), a daily web comic (http://www.comics.com/working_daze/) with some 50,000 readers, a 2180-rated Mage and a steady stream of published sci-fi books (http://www.johnzakour.com/), Zakour keeps the one-liners flowing.
A recent review of Zakour's The Flaxen Femme Fatale (http://sfsite.com/05a/ff295.htm) does a neat job of summarizing his outlook: "I'm always glad to see new books in this series come out, as there's a serious deficit of comedic hardboiled science fiction adventures on the market, and John Zakour has filled that niche quite adeptly," wrote the SF Site reviewer. "It's goofy, it's quirky, it's iconic in its own way, and it's way too much fun. Like the rest, The Flaxen Femme Fatale borders on parody, but maintains enough good-natured charm to maintain an air of legitimacy. It may be a world full of robots, psychics, aliens, genetically-engineered superhumans, and wacky technology, where anything is possible, but it has the internal consistency and earnestness required to sustain such a setting."
How does he manage to stick it all together, with time left over for WoW?Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Pulp sci-fi author shoots 'em up in WoW (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/05/19/15-minutes-of-fame-pulp-sci-fi-author-shoots-em-up-in-wow/)
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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wowinsider.com/media/2009/05/femmefatalelsp2.jpg15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes - from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off (http://www.wowinsider.com/tips) to players you'd like to hear more about.
Let's jump right in - because appropriately enough, that's the modus operandi of this week's profile subject, blogger/cartoonist/gag writer/self-proclaimed "older" player/sci-fi writer John Zakour. With a WoW column at Pink Raygun (http://www.pinkraygun.com/), a daily web comic (http://www.comics.com/working_daze/) with some 50,000 readers, a 2180-rated Mage and a steady stream of published sci-fi books (http://www.johnzakour.com/), Zakour keeps the one-liners flowing.
A recent review of Zakour's The Flaxen Femme Fatale (http://sfsite.com/05a/ff295.htm) does a neat job of summarizing his outlook: "I'm always glad to see new books in this series come out, as there's a serious deficit of comedic hardboiled science fiction adventures on the market, and John Zakour has filled that niche quite adeptly," wrote the SF Site reviewer. "It's goofy, it's quirky, it's iconic in its own way, and it's way too much fun. Like the rest, The Flaxen Femme Fatale borders on parody, but maintains enough good-natured charm to maintain an air of legitimacy. It may be a world full of robots, psychics, aliens, genetically-engineered superhumans, and wacky technology, where anything is possible, but it has the internal consistency and earnestness required to sustain such a setting."
How does he manage to stick it all together, with time left over for WoW?Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Pulp sci-fi author shoots 'em up in WoW (http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/05/19/15-minutes-of-fame-pulp-sci-fi-author-shoots-em-up-in-wow/)
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