by A. Lee Martinez, Karen Gerwig
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez Dresden Files, move over. The Automatic Detective has stolen my heart as the best scifi/fantasy-detective noir crossover out there. The characters are fun and funny and it is a well-written, enjoyable spoof that carries and twists all of the tropes of the ...
Adams-Chandler Jambalaya (aka The Automatic Detective)Gently brown one abducted family in heavy cast iron sci-fi universe seasoned with mutant-inducing radiation.Remove family, leaving well-oiled universe.In the same universe, sautée:-A seven-hundred sixteen pound (robot) cab driver trying to keep a...
"Look, I wrote a detective novel!"No one reads those anymore. People like more modern things nowadays. Robots and suchlike."Robots, eh?"With just glance at her, I knew in a second that this dame was more trouble than she was worth, even if she did have the longest legs I had ever seen, right up to h...
In Gil’s All Fright Diner, he spoofed the horror genre, in In the Company of Ogres and A Nameless Witch, he spoofed the fantasy genre, and now, with The Automatic Detective, A. Lee Martinez pulls a double-spoof, of the science fiction and hard-boiled crime dramas. Though, admittedly, it’s hard to c...
Fredric Brown meets Terry Pratchett.Or, 1940s detective pulp noir fiction meets a wacky science fiction universe.Either way, The Automatic Detective is a light, funny, well-written novel. It never goes awry. Considering the sorry state of modern genre publishing, that's an achievement in itself.The ...
When I started reading this book I thought to myself there is no way I'm really going to identify with a robot. By page ten, I did.I found this book to be a wonderful cross of Futurama, Blade Runner, Sam Spade stories with a touch of those old alien movies from the 1940's.Enjoyable for sci-fi lovers...
In general, I like Martinez. This one was good but it's not my favorite (I think that one would be "Too Many Curses").
In general, I like Martinez. This one was good but it's not my favorite (I think that one would be ""Too Many Curses"").
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