[Dragaera] Jasper Fforde

[Ken Koester]

Steve Rapaport wrote:

>      ad nausem,
>     ad astra per asperagus (& bonus points if you know the author & short
>     story that appears in).
>
>     Snarkhunter, writ by himself
>
> I claim the bonus points since Google tells me it's Fritz Leiber.


Ah, no--that would be *Google* getting the bonus points, you see  ;-)   
It is an amusing short story, to be sure, as was so much of Leiber.

>
> And I claim extra bonus points for telling you to threaten its life 
> with a railway-share, but beware in case the Snark is a Boojum. 
>
Unfortunately, bonus points are available only to the first customer, so 
you are too late by, well, decades.  In any case, I am not a baker nor 
even a Baker, & I find a Phalanx gatling gun more effective or in a 
pinch, a quad 50.  And if neither of those suffice, I just whip out a 
lawyer ;-)  

However, there is another source for Snarkhunter & as no one has 
mentioned it here before, I'll allow boni for that--and if you tell me 
the literary source of my current boat name, Redshift, I'll allow even 
more ;-)

Snarkhunter