The Reinvented Detective
The evolution of crime, punishment, and justice in the future.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.
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This was a really good collection of scifi detective mysteries. It is split up into three sections - Reports, Artifacts, and Judgements. I liked the first 2 sections more, but overall, the stories presented very different worlds really well, especially for being short, and came to satisfying conclusions. Since they were all by different authors, there was a lot of variation between stories, which kept it interesting.
This was a really good collection of scifi detective mysteries. It is split up into three sections - Reports, Artifacts, and Judgements. I liked the first 2 sections more, but overall, the stories presented very different worlds really well, especially for being short, and came to satisfying conclusions. Since they were all by different authors, there was a lot of variation between stories, which kept it interesting.
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