The great thing about writing a Stainless Steel Rat homage is you get to do things like this (in which our protagonists, having returned from a *very* long trip, have found and are preparing to rob a museum exhibit dedicated to ... themselves): #amwriting
@cstross There is the tale that Duran Duran liked entering Duran Duran lookalike contests
@bellinghman Also, famously, Graham Greene entered a competition for the best Graham Greene pastiche run by The Times—and came second.