I’m a fan of Mystery Fiction. I enjoy reading classics of the genre as well as contemporary works. I’m particularly thrilled when I find a science fiction novel with a murder mystery plot. Here are some books I believe fit this description: The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester, 1952 The caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov, 1954 The Naked Sun – Isaac Asimov, 1957 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K. Dick, 1968 The Robots of Dawn –…
Leave a CommentComing up on July/19th Wake of War is a near future, military sci-if that places the reader smack in the middle of the action. The political struggles that led to the conflict depicted in the book aren’t front and center, the personal struggles of those fighting on both sides are. The setting feels dystopian. The military jargon is pervasive and precise, adding to the realistic feel of the book. The third person POV is well developed for all three narrators.…
Leave a CommentInfluences of different mystery fiction periods and sub-genres on The Caves of Steel and the other two works in Asimov’s science and mystery fiction mash-up trilogy. If you haven’t read The Caves of Steel yet, beware. Even though I tried to avoid it, this article may contain spoilers. An edition of The Caves of Steel was published by Bantam Spectra Books in 1991. In its introduction, called The Story Behind The Robot Novels, Isaac Asimov talks about the conversation that…
Leave a CommentIt’s been a life long passion since I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy. In Brazil, so far from where it was written by the brilliant Douglas Adams, that novel reached a fifteen year old girl with its expansive outer-world invention and witty writing. Above all, it showed me possibilities I didn’t know existed. I grew up under Brazilian military control where criticizing the government meant a one way ticket to jail, torture, and an unmarked grave. Douglas’s political…
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