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• tsennyipa commented on Shameless Hugo nomination touting
  Well, there's one OCD mystery cleared up anyway... :)...
• gravelbelly22 commented on Shameless Hugo nomination touting
  I just checked my copy, because like tsennyipa it jogged a faint memory - it was Robert L Forward's "Rocheworld" that had a General Virginia "Jinjur" Jones :) ...this, after catching the "Big Bang Theory" episode that notes Stan Lee's alliterative naming strategies :)...
• adam.holland commented on Shameless Hugo nomination touting
  Straying further off topic. Re: General "Jinjur". I think Forward's character had the nickname because of / after the Land of Oz Character General Jinjur, who led the all-female Army of Revolt in the book The Marvelous Land of Oz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinjur...
• tsennyipa commented on Shameless Hugo nomination touting
  Ginjerofer is a character in Ringworld Throne. I suspect that the Oz reference is unrelated, but nice work spotting it—I hadn't noticed that, despite having been obsessed with the Oz books when I was a kid....
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmGYcLqkqja5KudZsSkcpSaaW4rSV1w9rg commented on Shameless Hugo nomination touting
  Ginjer was already Ginjer when I first met her at the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis. She was an undergrad schoolmate of my (soon-to-be) wife's and spotted us in the scrum and invited us up to a room party to meet Bob Silverberg. (Harlan Ellison intercepted us for an extended riff on how our newbie minds must be being blown by the con, so we didn't get introduced to Bob until the next year--by Ginjer at the PgHlange, the Pittsburgh regional con that she was part of.) In '69 Ginjer was still a social worker, but she was a faithful...