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A carregar... The 13 crimes of science fiction (original 1979; edição 1979)por Isaac Et All (Editor) Asimov (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Interesting combination stories for fans of both mystery and SF. The stories are from the 1950s-70s and are dated in unexpected ways. The concept of a CSI camera that can take pictures into the recent past is still futuristic, but the suspension of disbelief fails when one of the restrictions on it's use is how long it takes to develop the film! A team of robots working with a lawyer to define themselves as independent beings stumbles when the robots are described as writing out, on paper, information they've looked up in law books. A good collection of science fiction mysteries, along with an explanation of that relatively obscure sub-genre from Isaac Asimov. I've read a fair number of SF mysteries, and had read most of the ones in the book; most of them are excellent examples of the form. The leading story, "The Detweiler Boy" by Tom Reamy, was not particularly good; putting a relatively weak story first in an anthology is an unfortunate flaw. But there are a number of gems here, including Larry Niven's "Arm". "War Games" by Philip K. Dick, was simply not readable for me; I can take some PKD, but only in mild doses - and not a lot of it. I don't know if it was the mood I was in, or if the story was particularly Dick-ish (sorry, couldn't resist), but after a page or two I simply skipped that story altogether. That said, the vast majority of the book is excellent and well worth reading. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Thirteen tales in which detectives of the distant future roam a galaxy riddled with locked-room mysteries, ciphers to be decoded, and unearthly evidence to be sifted, all by the rules of the 13 classic kinds of mystery story--[cover]. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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However, having said that, it's not a bad collection if you're in the mood for something definitively of that 1950s-70s era. I do think it's easy to misinterpret the book's premise (or at least, I did); it's not thirteen styles of mystery in science fiction, it's literally thirteen styles of crime story, and there's a difference. There are genres here like "spy story," "trial," and so on, which I wasn't expecting alongside the more anticipated "locked room," "whodunit," and "why-done-it," and occasionally a story seems somewhat arbitrarily chosen. But overall, it's not a bad set.
The best stories in the volume - by about a country mile - are Philip K. Dick's "War Game" and Clifford D. Simak's "How-2." These both demonstrate a somewhat sly sense of humor that gives them a bit more reach, and even if they feel almost self-consciously retro, they both land with a pretty good punch in the gut. ( )