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[robkelk]

BaconBooks? Google escapes me.

Sorry, a reference to Undocumented Features -- in the latest (chronologically) stories, one of the background details that keep surfacing, somewhere between running gag and internal trope, is the BaconBooks line of guides for the person in unusual situations, most of them written by Derek Bacon, with titles like:

* So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Dimension
* So You Aren't the Master Race: Coping with the End of Your Civilization's Dreams of Conquest
* So You Became Unstuck in Time
* So You're Not Who You Thought You Were: Coping With Manchurian Deprogramming
* So You've Just Crawled Out of a Vault: Surviving in a Post-Apocalyptic World
* So You Fell From A Great Height: A Celestial Outcast's Survival Guide to the Mortal Plane
* So You're Dead: A Non-Survivor's Guide To Valhalla
* So You Don't Want the Creature to Eat You
* So You Come From Ye 17th Centurie (co-written with Samuel Pepys)
* So You Probably Shouldn't Have Eaten That
* So You Come From Australia

We really ought to have at least the last two on that list in Fenspace. "So You Probably Shouldn't Have Eaten That" is obviously a guide to coping with unknowingly ingesting Guacamole, and "So You Come From Australia" is either "Fenspace for 'Danes" or "The Really Real World for Fenkinder".

And, of course, there's the home-grown titles:

• So You Woke Up in an Android Body: Coping with Being an Expy in the Convention
  
• So You Want to Homestead on Mars
  
• So You're a Catgirl
  
• So You've Been Offered a Job by The Professor (co-written with Julien Friez, Julien Friez, and Julien Friez)
  
• So You Just Broke Up with Your Car
  
• So You Fell in Love with Someone from a Rival Faction: Avoiding the Montague/Capulet Outcome
  
• So You've Pissed off Marsden, Scott, and O'Neill: Surviving in Space Without a "Real" Job
  

--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012