10-21-2008, 01:12 AM
John Scalzi (Old Man's War trilogy, on par with Joe Halderman's Forever War...so may be overqualified as "junk food") has a one-off entitled The Android's Dream that definitely is "junk food" in the best sense: low in substance, high in entertainment. Good humor, good action sequences, decent political satire, just enough characters getting killed off that you can't get too comfortable....
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.