Hey Lemmings,
I’ve just finished up the second of John Scalzi’s Lock-In novels and I’m looking for some recommendations for some new books in the same vein. I’ve enjoyed a bunch of sci-fi mysteries like The Murderbot series, the I Robot novels, even Niven’s ARM stories. So throw me some more like that if you can.
Hyperion is a sci-fi version of the Canterbury tales, each chapter the story of one of the characters with an overarching mystery. It’s an absolutely great book that i don’t see recommended enough
I’ve seen this book on a lot of shelves but I never knew about the Canterbury Tales concept. I drop this in to my bookshelf buffer just on the reference alone. Although I do reserve the right to picture Dan Simons as Paul Bettany ala A Knight’s Tale.
Expanse and pretty much all of Asimov? :)
Check out Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, not a trilogy but 3 books set in the same universe. Each has a main mystery set in a pretty well written universe.
A bit more melodrama than what I usually read, but al in all a solid set of books.This one seems hard to find but I’ll put a request in at my local library to see if they can get a copy on loan from another library system.
Yeah, so I normally get my books online through Libby library app, I even have 2 cards from back in the US and it’s frustrating to see book 1 & book 3 available at the library but book 2 somehow isn’t?
So in that case I go to
https://elizabeth-bear.freenovelread.com/462247-ancestral_night
The Dark Side, is a murder mystery on the moon.
“In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon”
I like this concept and that opening paragraph is the bomb. “Son of a bitch, I’m in.” Morty pointing meme.
Asimov’s Mysteries, published in (1968) is a collection of science fiction mystery short stories. When Asimov set out to prove that something was possible (science fiction mysteries, in this case), he didn’t hold back!
Edward D. Hoch wrote a series of several excellent science fiction mystery novels: The Transvection Machine (1971) about a teleportation machine that’s involved in an apparent murder, The Fellowship of the Hand (1973), and The Frankenstein Factory (1975). They all feature the same detective: Carl Crader of the “computer cops”.
In addition to the Gil Hamilton mysteries, Larry Niven also wrote interesting detective and murder stories around the idea of a society in which cheap teleportation booths are available to all. Several of those stories are collected in A Hole in Space (1974). Like many older authors, Niven has re-released some of his short stories in larger collections later in his career, so those stories are almost certainly available in other collections. Almost all of his short stories are gems.
Happy reading! 🤓📖
The Expeditionary Force. Sentient AI with a crew of humans searching for answers.
The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi. First of a trilogy.
