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| 561.1 | | GCANYN::MACNEAL | Big Mac | Fri Jan 15 1988 10:09 | 2 |
| Check out Asimov's Elijiah Bailey stories - Caves of Steel, Robots of
Dawn, Robots and Empire (I know I'm forgetting a few).
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| 561.2 | some stuff | ERASER::KALLIS | Has anybody lost a shoggoth? | Fri Jan 15 1988 10:37 | 12 |
| Re .1 (Big Mac):
_The Naked Sun_ is one. He also did some short stories involving
Wendell Urth, the armchairiest of armchair detectives.
If you include fantasy (or science-fiction-of-an-alternate-time-con-
tinuum-where-magic-is-a-science), you can add the Lord D'arcy stories;
two collections, _Murder and Magic_ and _Lord Darcy Investigates_,
and the novel _Too Many Magicians_. The novel is exceptional fun
for inveterate readers of Doyle and Stout.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 561.3 | Some obscure additions | TALLIS::SIGEL | | Fri Jan 15 1988 12:39 | 27 |
| Some less obvious mystery/sf/fantasy works:
Now You See It/Him/Them by Buck Coulson and Gene DeWeese: A murder mystery
that not only takes place at an sf convention, but involves psi
powers as well.
Two other murder mysteries that use sf cons as background, though no
actual science fiction or fantasy elements:
Sci-fi by William Marshall
Murdercon by Richard Purtill
(I wasn't very fond of either of them, actually.)
The Curse of the Giant Hogweed by Charlotte MacLeod: A very strange fantasy
mystery supposedly set in ancient Wales; the book loses much if you haven't
read earlier novels in the series (featuring Professor Peter Shandy of
Balaclava Agricultural College, Balaclava County, Massachusetts (on the
New Hampshire border, no less)), but it is a fun read.
A few of Isaac Asimov's series of Black Widowers short stories have an sf
bent (there are several collections out thus far).
Lee Killough has written a number of sf novels with leos (law enforcement
officers) as protagonists and a general mystery to solve; I recommend
The Deadly Silents, The Doppelganger Gambit, and the latter's sequel, the
title of which escapes me at the moment (pubbed last year by Questar).
Andrew
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| 561.4 | A quick gleaning from the list. | SNDCSL::SMITH | William P.N. (WOOKIE::) Smith | Fri Jan 15 1988 17:07 | 15 |
| Asimov's Mysteries 0-449-24011-8 S-F mysteries (Dr. Urth)
Tin Stars 0-451-14395-7 5th Wonderful Worlds of S-F ed by
Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh
Jack Chalker Labyrinth of Dreams 0-812-53306-2 G.O.D. Inc
#1
Arthur C. Clarke Tales From The White Hart 0345-29880-2
Well, heck, quite a bit of science fiction invulves solving a mystery
of one kind or another.....
Willie
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| 561.5 | Rocket to the Morgue | CSC32::M_BAKER | | Fri Jan 15 1988 19:16 | 5 |
| I have a copy of "Rocket to the Morgue" by Anthony Boucher. I've heard
that it takes place at a con but I've never read it. Maybe someone else
knows something about it.
Mike
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| 561.6 | | CRVAX1::ANDREWS | How come nobody told *ME*? | Fri Jan 15 1988 23:12 | 9 |
| How about 'Dream Park' by (I think) Larry Niven and someone else.
Takes place in the future where you can actually play frp's in real
life. A murder takes place on the grounds and the head of security
must join a gaming group to try to find out which of them it was.
It is long, but I found it reasonably enjoyable.
Rob
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| 561.7 | A sort of crossover in ST:TNG's "The Big Goodbye" | DICKNS::KLAES | All the galaxy's a stage... | Sun Jan 17 1988 11:47 | 9 |
| I know this is not exactly what the base Note is looking for,
but I found the comparison/coincidence amusing: The latest new
episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, "The Big Goodbye", dealt
with Captain Picard using the starship ENTERPRISE's holodeck to
recreate 1941 San Francisco so he could enjoy some recreation playing
out the part of the fictional detective Dixon Hill.
Larry
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| 561.8 | closer crossover | ERASER::KALLIS | Has anybody lost a shoggoth? | Mon Jan 18 1988 11:16 | 17 |
| Re .5 (Mike):
It's been _years_ since I read _Rocket to the Morgue_. It has
virtually no SF in it (even though Tony Boucher was excellent in
both genres); the closest thing to it was the mention of the "Doctor
Derringer" stories (Boucher's suggested analog to the "Professor
Challenger" stories of Conan Doyle: Doyle only wrote a few Challenger
stories; Boucher supposed a raft of books to have been written about
an equivalent character, for purposes of his yarn).
For one closer, I'd suggest Mack Reynolds' _The Case of the Little
Green Men_, which, while still a conventional mystery, had strong
SFish (and particularly con-ish) elemewnts in it. Regrettably,
since it was written in the mid-50's, a but of the fannish talk
is quite dated, but it's still entertaining.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 561.9 | Thanks | FENNEL::BALS | Atoms fraternize with hurricanes | Tue Jan 19 1988 12:37 | 12 |
| Thanks for all the good recommendations! Keep `em coming ...
RE: .5. .8 (Rocket to the Morgue):
While Steve is right in noting that RttM contains little or no sf
(except for the method of murder :-)), it does contain some
thinly-disguised sf authors, most notably Robert Heinlein. You should
read your copy sometime. I think you'd enjoy it (and, if you have
a 1st edition of the book, it's worth some money to Heinlein
completists).
Fred
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| 561.10 | RTTM in pb | CSC32::M_BAKER | | Tue Jan 19 1988 14:14 | 7 |
| re: .9
All my sf books are packed up right now but I believe I have two copies
of the book in paperback. One of them was published under a pen name.
I have a friend who has a hardbound copy which I believe is a first
edition. He is a big Heinlein fan.
Mike
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| 561.11 | | ASIC::EDECK | | Tue Jan 19 1988 15:52 | 6 |
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A couple of P.I. types that come to mind:
_Outlands_
_A Fall of Moondust_ by Clarke
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| 561.12 | ? | IND::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Tue Jan 19 1988 15:53 | 5 |
| Recently noticed something called "Bimbos of the Death Star" on
a friend's bookshelf. He said it was a comedy/mystery about a murder
at a con. If I can track down the author's name I'll pass it along.
-dave
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| 561.13 | G.O.D. Inc. #2 | TFH::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Tue Jan 19 1988 17:33 | 13 |
| re .4:
>Jack Chalker Labyrinth of Dreams 0-812-53306-2 G.O.D. Inc #1
and
Jack Chalker Dream Dancers ?-???-?????-? G.O.D. Inc. #2
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| 561.14 | | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | Lyra RA 18h 28m 37s D 31d 49m | Wed Jan 20 1988 08:30 | 11 |
| re:.9
I don't have a first (hc) edition, but I have the *exceedingly*
rare paperback edition that was the first (and only) book under
the Phantom Mystery imprint.
re:.10
The book was originally published under the by-line "H.H. Holmes".
--- jerry
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| 561.15 | | SNDCSL::SMITH | William P.N. (WOOKIE::) Smith | Wed Jan 20 1988 18:53 | 12 |
| re: .-2
>Jack Chalker Dream Dancers ?-???-?????-? G.O.D. Inc. #2
Jack Chalker Dream Dancers 0-812-53308-9 G.O.D. Inc. #2
Sorry I didn't have it on file the first time around, but I bought
it between now and then. Some one of these years I may even get
around to reading it....
Willie
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| 561.16 | Radioactive Dreams | PIGGY::GEORGE | | Thu Jan 21 1988 16:53 | 11 |
| If you have a warped sense of humor and want to see a movie that
crosses the Maltese Falcon with Bladerunner with the Blues Brothers,
try Radioactive Dreams. The main characters are Phillip and Marlowe,
they come out of a bomb shelter having grown to adulthood alone
with only pulp detective stories for reading material. They leave
the bomb shelter in what looks like a 60's Oldsmobile convertible
into a postholocaust America with a goal of getting clients and/or
dames.
Not for serious SF fans or serious PI fans, but if you'd like a
comedic mix of the two, this could be up your alley.
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