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Jain
Posted 2014-09-08 2:38 PM (#8472)
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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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francesashton
Posted 2014-09-08 3:08 PM (#8474 - in reply to #8472)
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Location: Cheshire, England		OOOh, liking this challenge Jain. Consider me signed up!
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-09-08 4:11 PM (#8475 - in reply to #8472)
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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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francesashton
Posted 2014-09-09 1:53 PM (#8480 - in reply to #8472)
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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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HRO
Posted 2014-09-09 8:15 PM (#8481 - in reply to #8472)
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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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justifiedsinner
Posted 2014-09-10 11:32 AM (#8488 - in reply to #8472)
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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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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-09-10 1:19 PM (#8490 - in reply to #8488)
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Location: SC, USA		Fforde's Thursday Next series, as well.
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ManyMoons
Posted 2015-01-02 9:39 AM (#9097 - in reply to #8472)
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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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dustydigger
Posted 2015-01-03 7:55 AM (#9110 - in reply to #8472)
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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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illegible_scribble
Posted 2015-01-09 10:50 AM (#9237 - in reply to #8472)
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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.



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