The Reinvented Detective - by Jane Yolen & Harry Turtledove & Premee Mohamed & Lisa Morton (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Cat Rambo has published over 250 fiction pieces, including Nebula Award winning novelette, Carpe Glitter, as well as nonfiction works.

Rambo has been short-listed for the World Fantasy Award, the Compton Crook Award, and the Nebula Short Story Award. She is a former Vice President and two-term President of the SFWA (Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writers Association).

Cat continues to volunteer with SFWA and with them, created The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, specializing in classes aimed at genre writers, which now offers dozens of classes from some of the best writers currently working in
speculative fiction.

She has lived in Seattle, Washington the last few decades.

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer.

She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her BattleTech tie-in novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, won a Scribe Award.

Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar.

Jennifer's short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily
Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, and Predator.