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Serial Killer

from Who Let Him In Here? by Tom Smith

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Just a goofy little bit of shtick I used to do, something of a commentary of the preponderance in modern SF/Fantasy for trilogies, tetragies, pentagies, perigees, apogees, zerogees, holyjeez. To put it perhaps unkindly, a certain flavor of authors (all of whom were apparently struck in the head by thesauri at young ages, not only because of their tropisms for big ornate words but also because of their tendency to say the same things in as many different ways as possible), have been basically re-writing the same few stories, over, and over, and over, and will likely continue doing so until the sun dies, or the rain forests are paved over, or until we stop buying the damn things.

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The Original Trilogy of Trilogies, or Ninety-Four Percent of Everything is Shit

Book 1: Everything turns to shit
Book 2: Everything is shit
Book 3: We install plumbing

Book 4: The toilet backs up
Book 5: The house overflows
Book 6: We save the house, but the plumber dies

Book 7: The plumbing explodes
Book 8: We resurrect the plumber
Book 9: We discover the true meaning of shit

The David Eddings Variations, or What Is This Shit?

Book 1: Everything turns to shit
Book 2: Everything is shit
Book 3: Everyone starts shoveling
Book 4: The shit dries around everyone's ankles
Book 5: We call in the plumber and a back-hoe

Book 6: The toilet backs up
Book 7: The house overflows
Book 8: The back-hoe's out of gas and the plumber's phone is in the shop
Book 9: We fill the tank and fix the phone
Book 10: The plumber saves the house, but is killed by the back-hoe

Book 11: The plumbing explodes, taking the back-hoe with it
Book 12: We search for a repairman, who must resurrect the plumber
Book 13: We discover the true meaning of shit
Book 14: We become one with the shit
Book 15: The shit is destroyed by sending the plumbing to a nether dimension, but from now on everyone is kind of uncomfortable

The Piers Anthony Variations, or Enough of This Shit

Book 1: Everything turns to candy-coated shit
Book 2: Candy-coated shit turns out to be intelligent and can talk
Books 3-Infinity: Sounds like candy-coated shit to me

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from Who Let Him In Here?, released January 20, 1991

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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