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[telophase]

Can you think of SF/F authors or characters who are/were CPAs? (Crossword puzzle clue. The puzzle I'm making, that is.)

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[intothespin]

There's a Robert Sheckley story called "The Accountant," in which a boy who loves accounting outsmarts the devil.

[telophase]

Thanks!

(alas, all the authors I can come up with are problematic for one reason or another, so this is currently my first choice.)

[tool_of_satan]

I thought of that, but I couldn't figure out how to actually use it in a clue.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Larry Correia was an accountant, but I don't know if he has a CPA.

Lt. Bone is the Denarii fleet accountant in Bujold's Brothers in Arms.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Alexis Gilliland has an unpublished story about what happens when two crooked officers notice one of their subordinates has listed under hobbies "forensic accounting".

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Potiphar Breen from Heinlein's "The Year of the Jackpot" was a CPA, but I'd have to go check.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

He's not, sadly. He's a statistician.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I might go with "Possible bloody career path in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life?"

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not?