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Genre: Satire, Humor & Parody
About idunnoHome Region: Favorite writers: Simmons, Brin, Rowling, Chandler, Hammett, Orczy, Pinkwater, Gaiman, Campbell (, Bruce), Sabatini (, Rafael) Non-noveling interests: British cars, hanging with friends, reading, my parrot, apparently boating now |
Joined: October 1, 2002 This Year: Municipal Liaison NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 88 NaNoWriMo buddies: 42
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Brief Author Bio: Idunno was born in California in [REDACTED], in what will undoubtedly go down in the history books as a dark year indeed for literature. At age 18, he ran away to New York City to find fame and glamor in the New York literary world. He didn't. In 1993, Idunno was forcibly committed to the New York Municipal Hospital for the Criminally Insane. It was there that he created the basis for two Nano novels, Marlowe and the Spacewoman and Balloons of the Apocalypse, of which Marlowe and the Spacewoman is the first. He has always claimed these mad ravings are non-fiction, dictated to him by a fellow patient claiming to be the protagonist Marlowe, thrown back in time as the result of a diabolical plot. Hospital orderlies regularly tried to disabuse Idunno of this notion, but the beatings were either too infrequent, or not severe enough. Idunno has written numerous unpublished works of fiction and non-fiction, the titles of which are too terrible to duplicate here, except for The Killer Party: How to Host A Murder Mystery. The promotional activities for that book are what led to his incarceration. In 1996, Idunno escaped. He is believed to have migrated to the West Coast, where the extradition laws are more lenient. His exact location is unknown, and no recent photos of him are available. The profile photo appearing here was taking while posing with a fellow patient at the hospital. Idunno has never won, and never will win, any literary awards for his efforts, but he is believed to be responsible for the theft of five Hugos, three Nebulas, and the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature (José is still upset about it). He is considered armed and extremely dangerous. If you see Idunno, do not approach him, but contact local law enforcement. |
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Synopsis: The Stephen Hawking Detective Agency
What does a world-renowned theoretical physicist do once he's solved the greatest cosmological mystery? He focuses his keen mind a little closer to home, opening the Stephen Hawking Detective Agency!
His purpose? Bring light to all dark matters.
He lives by one simple tenent: No one can break the laws of Physics or Man and get away with it.
Using the Scientific Method, detective Hawking solves crimes no one else can figure out. No case is more suited to this approach than the twisted conundrum presented to him by a desperate client who quickly plunges the famous physicist into a world of intrigue, murder, and death!
It won't just take a brilliant mind to solve this case. It'll take GUTs.
Excerpt: The Stephen Hawking Detective Agency
It is easy to forget the origins of "The Grand Detective," awash as we are in the stories of his success now. The names given him by the media alone go a long ways towards demonstrating the adulation he finds among the law-abiding public: "Dark Matter Detective," "Quantum PI," even the "Investigative Hawk." Who among us can remember the great brain confined to a wheelchair, when the exploits of the "Sleuth in the Bionic Suit" looms ever large to push such distant recollections aside?
I remember, though. I remember because I was there for his first, not so famous case, a case forgotten in the tragic events that immediately followed it. The case that led him firmly away from the path of theoretical physics and down the road of professional sleuthing. I bore witness to the terrible events of that case, saw all that he saw, heard all that he heard, and yet, unlike my good friend and former mentor, I was blind and deaf to the key details that he picked out so clearly.
Perhaps it was his confinement to that wheelchair that honed his mind into the razor sharp detecting element that it now is. Perhaps this chance of biology, a seeming curse at first, is the reason for his brilliant abilities. I don't know. But I can say it was a wonder to watch him work, back in the days when he had only his mind for a shield, his mind and a few loyal friends.
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