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	SF Writers who write mystery/crime etc.
	This isn't supposed to be comprehensive or anything, and in fact most of these come from suggestions from the fictionmags list when I asked. Supposed to be SF writers who have done this, not fantasy or horror only people, either, was the general idea. I only read the latter occasionally, which was why I asked the question. Posting it as it may be of interest. People of course may know of others. SF Mystery Writers Brian Aldiss Victor Appleton Isaac Asimov Grant Allen Poul Anderson J. G. Ballard Neal Barrett, Jr. Barry J. Bayley John Gregory Betancourt Lloyd Biggle Michael Bishop James Blish Robert Bloch Leigh Brackett Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes Fredric Brown Molly Brown Ray Bradbury Chaz Brenchley John Brunner Algis Budrys Edgar Rice Burroughs Bruce Cassiday A. Bertram Chandler John Christopher (Sam Youd) D.G. Compton Edmund Cooper Michael Crichton Ray Cummings Don D'Amassa Avram Davidson Paul Di Filippo and Michael Bishop (under the name Philip Lawson) Arthur Conan Doyle August Derleth Gordon R. Dickson Thomas M. Disch Carole Nelson Douglas George Allan England Ralph Milne Farley Philip Jose Farmer Jeffrey Ford Erle Stanley Gardner Ron Goulart James E. Gunn Edmond Hamilton Elizabeth Hand Harry Harrison Zenna Henderson Robert E. Howard Otis Adelbert Kline Dean Koontz C.M. Kornbluth Henry Kuttner Madelaine L'Engle R.A. Lafferty Joe R. Lansdale Fritz Leiber Murray Leinster Frank Belknap Long Richard A. Lupoff Barry Malzberg Sam Merwin John D. McDonald C.L. Moore Ed Naha Larry Niven William F Nolan Andre Norton Raymond A. Palmer Edgar Pangborn H. Beam Piper Edgar Allen Poe Frederik Pohl Rachel Pollack E. Hoffmann Price Mary Rosenblum (Mary Freeman) Victor Rousseau Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Kris Nelscott used at times) Eric Frank Russell William Sanders Robert J Sawyer James H. Schmitz Darrell Schweitzer Robert Sheckley Lewis Shiner Robert Silverberg Dan Simmons John Sladek Margaret St. Clair Theodore Sturgeon Wilson Tucker Steven Utley Jack Vance Jules Verne Ray Vukcevich Don Webb Manly Wade Wellman H. G. Wells Donald Westlake (Richard Stark) William A White Robert Moore Williams Jack Williamson Connie Willis Kate Wilhelm Gene Wolfe John Wyndham Roger Zelazny Tags: science fiction, sf, sleuth Current Location: Baker Street Current Music: Watching the Detectives

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	From: impatientape	Date: July 1st, 2008 12:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I have published some crime and mystery stories, too -- in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, P.I. Magazine, Shayol, Mystery Monthly, and Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. The last three on that list are long defunct, but I myself probably killed only the last two.

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 1st, 2008 01:54 pm (UTC)		(Link)

What did you do, invasion of killer trilobites took out the publishers? :)

These are from a while ago I presume?

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	From: impatientape	Date: July 1st, 2008 02:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Brief-lived Mystery Monthly published two stories of mine in late 1976 and early 1977, accepted a third -- and then discontinued publication.

Long-lived Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine published my "Slices of Sylvia" in the early 1980s and then promptly went to be with Dime Detective and Flynn's Detective Weekly in pulp-magazine Heaven.

Come to think of it, my story "Creatures of Habit" did appear in the last issue of Shayol, so perhaps I can be charged with that, too.

P. I. Magazine may yet survive in spite of having published "The Goods" in 1991, and Ellery Queen's, in which "The Dinosaur Season" appeared in 1992, is certainly still with us.

Bruce Sterling and Howard Waldrop's "Latter Days of the Law," included in Custer's Last Jump! and Other Collaborations, is a mystery set in feudal Japan. Other scientifictioneers who wrote the occasional crime or mystery story include Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ralph Milne Farley, Otis Adelbert Kline, Raymond A. Palmer, and H. G. Wells. Earle Stanley Gardner, a writer primarily known for his mysteries, authored enough sf and fantasy stories to fill a hardcover collection some years back.

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 1st, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks. I have even read the Sterling/Waldrop story.

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 2nd, 2008 07:57 pm (UTC)		(Link)

G. Miki Hayden writes SF and mystery. Her novels include Pacific Empire and its sequel, New Pacific (Alternate History--WWII) and By Reason of Insanity; and she's had a mystery series running in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine recently.

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 3rd, 2008 03:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks. Definitely never heard of her.

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 3rd, 2008 04:42 am (UTC)		(Link)

She won the 2004 short story Edgar for a crime story ("The Maids" in a Berkley anthology) set in Haiti in the 1700s. And her non-fiction book, Writing the Mystery, is a Writer's Digest Book Club selection.

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 3rd, 2008 10:16 am (UTC)		(Link)

Well, that story sounds interesting. I know what Edgars are. Writer's Digest, never heard of.

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 3rd, 2008 08:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Writer's Digest is a magazine for writers. You could probably find it at a bookstore or library. I went to Barnes & Noble today, btw. What a selection of magazines we have to choose from!

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 4th, 2008 12:31 am (UTC)		(Link)

Ah, yes I have seen that one mentioned in an old pulp book I think.

One American book chain was recently sold here, we haven't been inflicted with the other, yet. :)

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 2nd, 2008 08:01 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Leslie Charteris had The Saint involved in a couple SF stories (Loch Ness monster and giant ants).

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 3rd, 2008 03:43 am (UTC)		(Link)

I've read a few Saint books, and have others - which one is that? Definitely should put that on the list of next Saint volume to read!

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 3rd, 2008 04:38 am (UTC)		(Link)

I don't know which book, and I just checked his bibliography. It might be Saint in Europe, but I can't swear to it. They might not be in the same book. (I can't remember the location of the giant ants.)

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 4th, 2008 01:38 am (UTC)		(Link)

I write SF, but not mysteries; still I've been racking my mind to see if I had anything in the mystery/crime genre, and I finally thought of Well Met By Water, which includes gangsters and mermaids. The crime is attempted murder. (It's in an anthology, Scoundrels and Rascals, and may still be in print.)

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	From: bluetyson	Date: July 4th, 2008 07:38 am (UTC)		(Link)

Cool. Don't think I have seen that combination before.

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	From: pagadan	Date: July 4th, 2008 10:51 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Looking at the description, it seems odd, but I dive right into the water in the first paragraph:

Small waves lapped warmly over his shoulders. The tide was coming in leisurely; it might be an hour yet before the water covered his head. At least the gashes on his arms had stopped bleeding; he was grateful for that much. A swirl in the water to his left caught his attention. So, it looked like Slits' little knife had done its job after all.

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