>Well, let's be honest: Derek Bacon does not personally do
>absolutely all the research and writing for the So
>You... series, any more than all the various O'Reilly manuals are
>actually written by Tim O'Reilly. His is the guiding spirit and the
>imprimatur, but his own hand is not specifically responsible for every
>word between those distinctive white, blue and red covers.
>
>Though the three most famous and numerous titles in the series, So
>You've Just Arrived from a Parallel Dimension, So You're Not
>the Master Race, and So You've Become Unstuck in Time, are
>all his own work, as is the rather more niche-y but in its field
>indispensable So You're Not Who You Thought You Were: Coping With
>Manchurian Deprogramming and the enormously popular So You
>Shouldn't Have Eaten That.

However, not all were #1 hits of their day. Even now, So You've Just Crawled Out of a Vault: Surviving in a Post-Apocalyptic World still comes in second place behind The Wasteland Survival Guide on most galactic book lists.