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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Uber-fan Clifford Morgan is only really happy when he's at conventions, cosplaying Tratyn Runewind and making use of his encyclopedic knowledge of the series. McCrumb's narration points out that when he's working his day job, customers sometimes catch him muttering under his breath in the style of speech used by the novels.
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: In addition to the title, Jay's novel is saddled with one of these. To McCrumb's chagrin, so was hers.
* [[Cosplay]]: ''Bimbos'' has a costume contest; other than Clifford Morgan incurring Dungannon's wrath by appearing in Runewind costume, we get [[Irony|a Klingon with stage fright]] and a young girl in a really nice [[Dragonriders of Pern|Dragonrider]] costume, with a handmade plush dragon. But since Dungannon is judging, the prize goes to a Goodwill [[The Lord of the Rings
* [[Clueless Mystery]]: ''Zombies'' to some extent, as the motive for the murder (see the above spoiler) isn't revealed until [[The Summation]].
* [[Creator Backlash]]: {{spoiler|Dungannon writes every Runewind novel with an "extra" chapter in which the hero is killed or humiliated (usually both), which his editors remove before publishing; the murder occurred because a crazy fan broke into his room, read the chapter, and acted to "save" the fictional hero from an ignoble death.}}
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* [[Deleted Scene]]: In ''Bimbos'', {{spoiler|Dungannon's publisher reveals that at the end of each book, he would write a chapter or two where Tratyn Runewind is killed and/or humiliated, in order to vent his frustrations about being chained to the series; these chapters would always be removed before the book saw print. However, a psycho fan broke into Dungannon's room and found the chapter without realizing the context, which lead to the murder.}}
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Happens a lot in reference to the Lanthanides in ''Zombies''. One scene in particular has Erik Giles reminiscing about a local gas station that had a bear cub in a cage as a tourist attraction, and how he and the other kids would give it bottles of chocolate soda. Marion quietly remarks that if those were the "good old days", she's glad to have missed them.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Dungeons and Dragons]]: Deserves special mention since a game of it is integral to solving the murder in ''Bimbos''.
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: Every member of the Lanthanides is a suspect in Malone's murder in ''Zombies''.
* [[Expy]]: One of the Lanthanides is a stand-in for [[
* [[Fair Play Whodunit]]: ''Bimbos''.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: ''Zombies'' mentions the fandom concept of GAFIA-ting, "Getting Away From It All"; Malone says that he did this when he turns up at the Lanthanides reunion. {{spoiler|Furthermore, the very end of ''Zombies'' implies that the ''real'' Malone is still alive and gave Jay a fake obituary when Jay is trying to identify who the "Malone" who showed up at the reunion really was.}}
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** McCrumb also wrote in the forward to a later edition of ''Bimbos'' that she could tell which writers were on the outs with fandom based on who fans thought Dungannon was supposed to be.
* [[Old Shame]]: Jay views his novel this way due to the treatment it got from the publishers (not to mention the backlash he imagines would come if word got out that he was the author). In ''Zombies'', Malone threatens to reveal the skeletons in the Lanthanides' closets unless they buy his silence, which leads to the entire group being suspects in Malone's murder. To a lesser extent, Erik Giles shows some embarassment at his own past as a Lanthanide.
* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|Pay Asshole Unto Asshole]]: Dungannon's [[Pet the Dog]] moment comes during an autograph session, where one con-goer comes up to his table with multiple books; Dungannon points out how inconsiderate this is, but the guy just responds "[[Harsher in Hindsight|They'll be worth a lot when you're dead someday]]." Dungannon signs the books...and a few minutes later the fan rages because he signed with [[
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Malone gets a brief one-on-one conversation with Jay, which paints his lashing out at the sci-fi community as "growing up" and pointing out the hypocrisy of it all rather than being a spiteful [[Take That]].
** Dungannon gets a small one himself; during an autograph session, a fan comes to the table with a large stack of books, and Dungannon points out how inconsiderate this is towards the people waiting in line. Then he signs all of the rude fan's books...with [[
* [[Plagiarism in Fiction]]: Plays a major role in the end of ''Zombies'': {{spoiler|Marion points out the similarities between various stories written by the Lanthanides; Reuben Mistral brushes it off by saying they lived out of each others' pockets in those days and were bound to have hung onto a few ideas from the old times. But then Marion reveals the real point, namely that Erik Giles' writing style is nothing like his supposed [[Pen Name]] C.A. Stormcock's, but Stormcock's ''is'' very similar to the late Peter Deddingfield's writing...}}
* [[Saw It in
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Appin Dungannon acts like one in ''Bimbos''. Partly a subversion, since Dungannon himself harbors no illusions about himself and his books; he just enjoys being a pain in the butt.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Averted; Marion is feminist, but is portrayed in a very positive light. She gripes about the horrible treatment of women in sci-fi, but she blames the individual writers for not understanding women instead of condemning the entire male gender.
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