Sunday, 12 April 2015

At Swancon 40 Alex Isle , Sally Beasley , myself and Stephen Dedman participated in my panel "Magical and SF...

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At Swancon 40 Alex Isle , Sally Beasley , myself and Stephen Dedman participated in my  panel "Magical and SF Detective Fiction: Police Procedurals and similar in non mainstream settings". I had wanted to run it at CrimeScene, but were not able to do anything about it at the time. We had quite a big audience and couldn't cover everything we wanted to in the hour, but we got a lot discussed.

I have a partial list of recs, some I need more detail on, as I was adding to my list of notes from the other speakers at the time.
This is mostly just my rough notes.
Recommended anthologies

The best paranormal crime stories - Martin H Greenberg

The Dragon Done it anthology by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick

Magical and Science Fiction Detectives

Science Fiction

Alistaire Reynolds – Revelation Space Universe – The Prefect good standalone in this
Set in the Glitter Band – a huge array of orbital habitats around the planet Yellowstone.

John Scalzi – Lock In
JD Robb – Eve Dallas

Fantasy/Paranormal

The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
P N Elrod - Vampire Jack Fleming in 30’s Chicago - solves his own murder in the first book.
Jim Butcher – Harry Dresden
Esther M. Friesner – Brithic Donne & Weston (Druid's Blood)
Randall Garret – Lord Darcy
Barry Hughart Master Li and Number 10 Ox
Jasper Fforde – Thursday Next
Ellis Peters – Brother Cadvael a little bit
Mike Resnick – John Justin Mallory
Guy Boothby – Dr Nikola Go look them up! Seriously!
Dirk Gently – Douglas Adams
Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affair,
Charles Stross
Liz Williams – Detective Inspector Chen

Some incomplete notes that hopefully can be filled in?

Hawk and fisher
Doberman policedog?
The scarlet rider
Lee killough

And something I call WTF/SF

Containing both elements of fantasy and science fiction and just plain nuts with with physics/concepts.

Jasper Fforde – Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron
Dr Who
In Death Series - J D Robb

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