{"id":3410,"date":"2009-12-04T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2009-12-04T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:24:19","slug":"win-a-tuckerization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3410","title":{"rendered":"Win a Tuckerization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuckerization\">Tuckerization<\/a> is the act of placing a real person&#8217;s name in a work of fiction.  Several authors are currently auctioning off the privilege of being tuckerized in support of the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund.  The authors involved in the auction are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/A-character-in-an-Elizabeth-Bear-novel-named-after-you_W0QQitemZ330381493806QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec45862e\">Elizabeth Bear<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/A-character-in-a-David-Brin-novel-named-after-you_W0QQitemZ330381492899QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec4582a3\">David Brin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/A-character-in-a-Julie-Czerneda-novel-named-after-you_W0QQitemZ330381493098QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec45836a\">Julie Czerneda<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;Item=330381491875&amp;Category=268&amp;_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2\">Cory Doctorow<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/A-character-in-a-Nalo-Hopkinson-novel-named-after-you_W0QQitemZ330381492760QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec458218\">Nalo Hopkinson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Character-name-in-a-Mary-Robinette-Kowal-story-or-novel_W0QQitemZ330381492477QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec4580fd\">Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;Item=330381493384&amp;Category=268&amp;_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2\">Charles Stross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This would be a unique holiday gift for a fan.  The auctions end soon, so hurry!<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">Whatever<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuckerization is the act of placing a real person&#8217;s name in a work of fiction. Several authors are currently auctioning off the privilege of being tuckerized in support of the Trans Atlantic Fan Fund. The authors involved in the auction are: Elizabeth Bear David Brin Julie Czerneda Cory Doctorow Nalo Hopkinson Mary Robinette Kowal Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}