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| Discussion thread for the Detective SFF Challenge. Read 12 detective and/or mystery SF/F/H novels and write 6 reviews. This challenge is backdated to January 2014 (since I suspect many WWEnders have read qualifying books in the past eight months without even trying) and extends to December 2015.
The challenge page includes some examples of popular detective SFF works, but please feel free to recommend others in this thread. |
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Location: Cheshire, England | OOOh, liking this challenge Jain. Consider me signed up! |
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Location: SC, USA | You beat me to this one. I was planning on setting one just like this up for next year.  Consider me in! |
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Location: Cheshire, England | Thinking about suggested series on the page, you could probably add the Christopher Fowler Peculiar Crimes/Bryant & May and the Benedict Jacka Alex Verus series. Also thinking that a some of Sarah Pinborough would work, and Lilith Saintcrow's Bannon & Clare series. Bit of a cross over with Urban Fantasy in a lot of mystery books, so you could probably do this along with the sub-genre challenge pretty well. |
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Location: Neither here...nor there | I love this challenge idea but I doubt I'll be joining. I just have more reading plans than I do time!
However, some reading suggestions...
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (I read this last year and really enjoyed it. It's kinna like a noir/hardboiled detective story set in space.)
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Great North Road by Peter Hamilton
Halting State by Charles Stross
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| I have a similar time problem as HRO. I would suggest (having read them):
George Alec Effinger's Marid Audran series and John Courtenay Grimwood's Arabesk trilogy. |
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Location: SC, USA | Fforde's Thursday Next series, as well.
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Location: suburb of Minneapolis, MN | Signed up. I actually have met this challenge since it is backdated to Jan. 2014 since I read all of the Dresden Files last year, but I want to enjoy some of these other authors as well. Yay! |
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Location: UK | Peter F Hamilton's Greg Mandel series have a detective element
Mindstar Rising
A Quantum Murder
The Nano Flower |
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A great one for this would be Seanan McGuire's October Daye series, which I really like.
Also, Charles Stross' Laundry Files series is about a sort of supernatural spy-detective.
Edited by illegible_scribble 2015-01-09 10:52 AM
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Detective SFF Challenge