Tuckerization n.

The novel is marred by one piece of inane cuteness: the Tuckerization of Forrest J. Ackerman. [Philip José] Farmer uses Ackerman as one of his major characters. He does not merely use the name which would not be objectionable (Dick Geis has used my name, among others, in an Essex House book ((Raw Meat))); he uses Ackerman himself—name, personality, hobbies, occupation, house, etc., described down to the smallest detail—as a character.

Is Tuck Heyworth…a tuckerization of Bob Tucker[,] the originator of the tuckerizing process? After all, he lives in Heyworth, Illinois[,] doesn’t he?

John Bangsund…is also one of our better known fans, having been immortalized via Tuckerization…by James Blish in ‘We All Die Naked’.

Verran’s name-making article is a very handy brief description of the process and the tricks available (tho he didn’t mention Tuckerisation, is using names of folk you know and know won’t sue!)—a handy intro to use in writing workshops (credited to him, natch).

Past auctions have included everything from books of Australian slang, strange chocolate, and neat NASA items, to ‘Tuckerizations’, where the winning bidder’s name appears as a character in a story by authors such as Gregory Benford, David Brin, [etc.].

A Tuckerization (like e.g. Bobby Block in The Lincoln Hunters; more recently authors have helped fund-raising by letting one be auctioned) in the forthcoming Niven-Benford collaboration—their first—went to Chris Marble.

Larry said that someone named Marble bought a Tuckerization in a book.