Mind Hunt: A Science Fiction/Mystery Novel

However, the purview of this list is to select some of the more stand out SF works that could solidly be slotted into the 'Mystery' genre. That is, unraveling a mystery is a core part of the plot. We've listed our picks for some of the best mystery science fiction stories. Dick Comments 1 Award Nominations: People are being encouraged to leave the planet for parts unknown and are being given an incentive, their own personal android, to get out of here.

Some of these androids escape, return to earth, and assume the identities of their former owners. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who chases down these androids, who are presumed not to be able to feel human emotions. His story is contrasted with that of a human irreparably damaged by the war who cannot leave Earth and decides to help the androids escape.

The book is best known as the film Blade Runner, which was a huge hit that starred Harrison Ford. Yet the film didnt use much of the material from the book. Ironically Dick never saw the movie. A science-fiction author who has enjoyed a personal renaissance in recent years with other movies made from other novels. Hes definitely an under-appreciated author these days. Rusch writes about a new world, set in the future, where the humans and alien races try to coexist in a new society.

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Theres a certain level of tolerance being taught between the beings, including a respect for the laws of the other races when visiting their worlds. Its an awkward balance between the species. However, the penalties can run high, including the loss of life or losing your children, while the laws can be confusing. Thats where Miles Flint comes in. Hes a retrieval artist which is where the series gets its name who brings back these people who have run away rather than face these consequences.

Yet hes torn by the demands of his police job and his own sense of personal justice. That pull will be the source of the conflict throughout the series. Rusch is a talented writer whose works cross the span of genre fiction. Shes been nominated for science fictions awards including the Endeavor this book and has won the Hugo, and her short works have been nominated for the Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. The books where she cross the genres are among her best. Set in the future, the humans of the world interact with animals who have developed the ability to speak and interact in society.

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Inevitably some of them have become bad bunnies. However, this is not the world of Roger Rabbit. Some of the animals are gangsters and stone-cold killers. Society, as a whole, has decided to accept things as they are. People are given medications to make them more compliant and more forgetful. Only the police and PIs are permitted to ask questions. Its too disruptive otherwise. In a classic private eye set-up, Conrad Metcalf is following the beautiful wife for his client, when the client ends up dead.

The officials want to talk to Metcalf, but so do some of the local gangster elements as well. Lethem is a well-known author of seven novels. Hes a founding editor of a magazine as well. His works are always highly anticipated events. A successful venture capitalist with billions in the bank, Mike Cohen has it all figured out. Brainocytes transform the human experience, making you smarter, faster, and more powerful.

With enemies at every turn, Mike must use his newly enhanced capabilities to save his family, his friends, and ultimately, the world. This is the first of Willis time traveling historians. Ned Henry is looking for something called the bishops bird stump in the s, despite the fact that he lives in the 21st century. He needs it as part of a plan to restore a cathedral destroyed by Nazi bombing.

The time travel devices are good for little else, as they have mechanisms built into them that deny travelers any possibility of changing the past or even visiting certain controversial events. That means that corporations have no use for the machines, leaving them in the hands of historians. Verity Kindle no relation to the eReader brings a domestic house cat back to their present from Victorian England and now Henry must replace it in its rightful place, before all of history is rewritten by the act.

The book is written in a true Victorian style with asides to the reader and repeated references to mystery authors like Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This book won the Hugo and the Locus awards and was nominated for a Nebula. Willis has won multiple Hugos for her work which are guaranteed to tickle the funny bone. Set in the near future, scientists have discovered the genetic disposition that makes men more likely to exhibit violent behavior. The breakthrough is in response to an outbreak of serial killers all over the world.

However, just as all genetic features do not mean that the genetic condition will occur, some men with the marker dont display violent behavior. However, that nuance doesnt matter to a serial killer named Wittgenstein, who has decided to wipe out the men with this disposition. It makes you feel old when the science fiction book set in the future is now actually set in the past. This book takes place in , some years behind us now.

Even so, its interesting to watch an author weave a futuristic society that has come and gone. The book can go a little bit far with the philosophy and the discussions of the morality of such acts, but it never hurts a reader to think a little while enjoying a good chase. Earth is overpopulated a thousand years from now. Planets outside of our solar system have been colonized and development of robots through the positronic brain.

In this new society, only some of humans live in New York City including Detective Elijah Baley, who is not a big fan of the robot. However, hes teamed up with a robot to solve a murder case far from planet Earth. The robot sidekick is bad enough until Baley learns that the robot is an exact replica of the murder victim. Asimov does mystery and science fiction well, and this is the first book in his Robot series, which is well-loved and critically acclaimed.

Asimov is a master of the genre. Hes been republished and collected and filmed more than most of the authors on this list combined. Hes garnered multiple awards and been nominated more times than most of us can count. Hes one of the giants of the genre, and when he wasnt prolifically writing science fiction, he wrote mysteries including the well-known Black Widower stories. Mack is some kind of detective. Hes a robot that was built to take over the world, but he decided that wasnt his thing.

So he drives a cab in Empire City. Its only when his neighbors go missing that he decides to get involved in their lives. It turns out that one of the kidnapped people has the key to something that could spell the end of the Earth. Mack is made to storm any fortress, but its not that easy, because others start playing with his internal mechanisms to turn him back into that world-dominating machine. He meets a beautiful, potential love interest that helps Mack in his quest to stay on his path for a better life and to find and save the neighbors.

The book is a classic in the genre, a well-received novel by a fan-favorite author. Its worth the time to find it and read it. It has the old-fashioned wise-cracking private eye in the same vein as Spade and Marlowe, which brings a smile to the reader while reading a fast-paced book. The concept for the book is rather involved.

Peoples souls and memories can now be digitized and stored. Once stored, if something happens to you, the soul and memories can be put into a different body, which is now called a sleeve and explains the title. Not everyone is in favor of eternal life in different bodies. The problem is that much like a computer back-up, the last few hours of data is lost since it has not been backed up as of yet.

Thats the situation for Laurens Bancroft, whose death is labeled a suicide, but he thinks that someone deliberately killed him. He hires Kovacs who has been trained as a member of an elite military group and now works as a detective. The book is violent, since Kovacs was trained to take a beating, but the books hook is worth the violence.

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For starters Netflix announced that this will be a 10 episode series in It also won the Philip K. Dick Best Novel award when it was released. Nothing is more primal to a civilization than the story of its creation and heroes. Alex Benedict is the man who searches for the answers in this story. Hes left the clues to the real story by his uncle, who has mysteriously disappeared.

When Benedict goes to look for the files, theyve been stolen and all data. Benedict decides to continue his uncles quest to find out what really happened in the great war that started the society. Hes joined by a Ms.

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The relationship doesnt start well since the uncle owed her a significant amount of money. However, after the debt is paid, she agrees to take Benedict to other parts of the galaxy. The results are not what the reader would have expected and certainly not the spin that the civilization wants its people to believe.

The story has grandiose themes, and the book has long been a fan favorite. The author has a string of fantastic books and this is another winner. The book is consistently ranked among the authors best.

Mind Hunt: A Science Fiction/Mystery Novel

When a scholar, Dr. James Owen Mega, has his book accepted for publication, he never realizes that his academic tome is about to become a best-seller through the unfortunate name change of his book to the title of this book. The publisher also dubs him as Jay Omega to match the title. To promote the book, he, and another scholar, attend a science fiction conference where of course murder happens.

The ultimate irony is that McCrumb won the Edgar for this book, and now has that this title on her own book covers. Before The Big Bang Theory came to be, there were McCrumbs renditions of what the culture of a science fiction convention looked like. She caught the spirit of the people involved and portrayed them carefully, yet humorously. This book and its follow-up, Zombies of the Gene Pool, are well-worth looking up. Junos family moved to Lagarto, promised as a futuristic utopia for citizens of the overcrowded earth.

However, the economy on Lagarto depends on a single export, and that export was replaced with a cheap knock-off. After that, Lagarto became a planetary slum and its residents suffer extreme poverty. Juno works as a cop, but hes corrupted by bribes from the organized crime elements on Lagarto. Then hes given a new partner, who wants to seem to set him for an arrest and conviction. Its the first in a great series of books about Juno Mozambe. One of the best things to come from science fiction is the ability to bring out the worst in current society and display it taken to the extreme in a futuristic society.

The themes of corporate greed and the loss of the middle class are resoundingly important today and the book will give you plenty to think about. The fact that this was the first novel by the author should tell you to go buy more of the authors books. Dirk Gently, who was a minor character in one of Adams other works, becomes a private eye in this novel.

The character is not the type who checks DNA and looks instead for the way in which seemingly unique things like poets and pizza are interconnected. Hence the name holistic detective agency. As expected the events are shown through the eyes of many characters and in such a fashion as to seem disjointed until Gently explains the relationships. There are definitely some science fiction elements in the book, like time travel, but there are also ghosts, which pushes it towards fantasy as well. Definitely a book for those who have read and enjoyed the other books by this author.

This book is labeled a science fiction mystery comedy. Its by the same author who wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which is a fan-favorite in the science fiction genre. Dirk only appeared in two novels, but theyre both worth finding and reading. Adams was working on a third when he passed away, and its not been released. Mard Audran is something of a lone wolf in this futuristic book.

The current superpowers have foundered and the Middle East is now prospering. The story is set in this area. Audran makes his living from hand-to-mouth, but at the beginning of the book, hes suspected of being a sadist serial killer. A mob boss wants to execute Audran, but instead uses significant modifications to Audrans brain.

As Audran adjusts to the changes, the serial killer gets closer and closer to Audran himself by killing off the mans acquaintances. Audran is not the best of investigators, as he stumbles into more situations than he deduces or even intuits. The situation deteriorates until Audran is captured by the serial killer, who plans on making him the next victim. The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Its the first in a series that included two other novels and a series of short stories as well as an unfinished novel.

The book is one of the first to use transgender characters, in the person of Yasmin, Audrans sometimes girlfriend. Japan, in the future, has been destroyed by a cataclysmic event. The older generations that remember how things used to be have died off, and all thats left are the people who have only known this wasteland. To make life more tolerable, a better Japan has been made via artificial reality. The technology has become so pervasive that many people spend all their time in AR. Homicide detective Dore Konstantin has to solve a murder that occurred in an AR parlor, where people go to use the artificial reality technology.

In this particular case, the victim was killed in the same manner in real life and AR. The coincidence shocks the detective, but gathering evidence and testimony is difficult, since no evidence is accepted given that so much time is spent in a world where nothing is real. The book is a fascinating look at what happens when a generation becomes addicted to technology.

Nothing can be taken at face value, and everything is suspected of being false. Cardigan is often called the Queen of Cyberpunk and is a two time Arthur C. This novel is set in , though it easily could have been set years before. Its a fairly classic private eye novel with science fiction and humor galore. Zachary Nixon Johnson calls himself the last private eye on earth. While its not quite true, he does get his share of odd cases. The world has only grown more pop-star crazy in the intervening years and Johnson is something of a celebrity given his status as the last private eye.

Hes hired by the former stripper who now runs a massive global corporation to find her renegade clone. Of course, the seemingly minor case turns out to worldwide ramifications that could get dangerous for Johnson. Its clear that Zakour is also a humorist, a fact that he doesnt try to hide. The book is laugh-out-loud funny in place and smirk-worthy in many others. The weird combination of characters and events will keep the reader guessing and smiling up to the last page. As this galaxy becomes more crowded, scientists begin to look for other ways to allow population to continue to grow.

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