- Darkworld Detective
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Darkworld Detective 
Cover of 1982 edition (paperback)Author(s) J. Michael Reaves Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher Bantam Publication date 1982 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 257 pp ISBN NA Followed by The Black Hole of Carcosa Darkworld Detective is a collection of science fantasy stories written by J. Michael Reaves, published as a paperback original by Bantam Books in 1982. The linked stories feature protagonist, a detective on the planet Ja-Lur. An authorized sequel, The Black Hole of Carcosa, was written by John Shirley and published by Pocket Books in 1988.[1]
Contents
Contents
- The Big Spell
- The Maltese Vulcan
- Murder on the Galactic Express
- The Man with the Golden Raygun
Reception
Writing in F&SF, John Clute described the volume as "dim but decent," faulting Reaves's narrative style as "about as close to Raymond Chandler as Kai Lung is to Confucius" but concluding that the stories are nevertheless "mostly straightforward fun."[2]
References
- ^ http://www.michaelreaves.com/books.htm
- ^ Clute, John (December 1982), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, pp. 46–47
External links
- Darkworld Detective publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:- 1982 books
- 1982 short stories
- Novels by Michael Reaves
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