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Originally Posted by Roos
Oh there is another genre i love to read, but they are rare like gem-stones in a garbage dump, Detective SF, you know like how the Asimov Robot series started out with.
Anyone has some good recommendations?
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Have you read Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Retrieval Artist series? At least the first 5 or 6 are SF mysteries. It slides into a overarching-conspiracy series starting with Anniversary Day through the latest, Masterminds (with hints dropped in the earlier books, if you're paying attention).
Totally my opinion, but if I'd started with Anniversary Day I probably wouldn't have read any more. I don't tend to like series with huge cliff-hangers that don't resolve for books-and-books that probably could have been condensed to half the number of books.
Having said that, I'm invested in the universe now (I like the characters and find the world she built interesting), so I waited until all the books in the Anniversary Day Saga set were published, then read them one-after-the-other. And since I subscribe to Rusch's newsletter and I know she intends more books in the Retrieval Artist universe, I fully intend to keep reading them.
She has another SF series that has an interesting premise, but she writes it in first-person, present-tense, and I just can't stomach that style. I tried reading the first book and I just couldn't get past the present-tense stuff. When I become too aware of the words I'm reading instead of getting immersed in the world I'm reading, it stops being fun for me.