The Reinvented Detective, Cat Rambo
The Reinvented Detective, Cat Rambo
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The Reinvented Detective

Author: Cat Rambo, Jennifer Brozek

Narrator: Perry Daniels, Sierra Kline

Unabridged: 9 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2023


Synopsis

What happens when time and technology change the definition of crime and punishment?

Science fiction often focuses on future technology without considering the society housing it. Social norms may change as tech changes—or not. What will criminals, investigators, judges, and juries look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge the possibilities of new laws, new police methods, and the birth of sentient Artificial Intelligence, as well as all the ways they can clash or combine?

The Reinvented Detective presents stories that complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives, punishment, and justice for all by showing how shifting technology, the rise of sentient AIs, and shifting social attitudes may affect what is not only acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities—and everything in-between. These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes, recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing, and entertaining.

About Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo (they/them) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has appeared in, among others, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Chiaroscuro, Talebones, and Strange Horizons. They live and write in Washington State.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anissa

A very good anthology! This collection is the second in a series and the theme is detectives and crime in either science fiction or speculative fiction settings. I really enjoyed this so much and will seek out the prior book to read and look forward to the next in the series. I don't want to spoil th......more

Goodreads review by Johan

8+ A thoroughly entertaining collection of (mostly) near future detective-stories, exploring the way crime detection and the justice system might evolve the coming century or two - taking in account new developments in AI, virtual reality, new classes emerging and so on. Many of the futures describe......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

REPORTS Poem: That Missing C: Police Report #1 – Jane Yolen *** The Best Justice Money Can Buy – C.C. Finlay *** The Gardener’s Mystery: Notes from a Journal – Lisa Morton *** Someone Else’s Device – AnaMaria Curtis *** Coded Out – Frog and Esther Jones **** Murder at the Westminster Dino Show – Rosemary......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This was a very interesting and fresh anthology with a lot of very fun stories. Editors Cat Rambo and Jennifer Brozek have skillfully curated a group of stories that play on or subvert a wide range of both classic science fiction themes and classic detective story genres. We've got world weary noir......more