![]() ![]() The new angle is where the story becomes a plot based on AI and political shenanigans (again, something that Charlie Stross fans will recognise.) ![]() In these more enlightened times of the 21 st century Sam is now Alma, but her role as a protagonist is the same trope as ever. The style is tight, though not quite a la Sam Spade. Think The Maltese Falcon meets Charles Stross. Here he’s clearly channelling Dashiell Hammett and Alfred Hitchcock noir to create a detective story with a near-future angle. Like many of his other books he plays with traditional tropes and gives them his own personal slant. It can’t be denied that Adam likes to set a challenge! It’s so common that Otto Penzler has created one of his huge anthologies on it.Īdam Roberts’ future-noir story begins with an updated version of this trope – there’s a body been found in the boot (aka ‘a trunk’ in the US) of a car being assembled by robots – in a place continuously monitored by three cameras in three different places and a an assembly point where no humans can normally access. ![]() In crime novels one of the most common scenarios of the ‘whodunnit’ is ‘the locked-room mystery’ – that is where a crime (usually a murder) has been committed without any evidence for an entrance or an exit. ![]()
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