7.8 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date 1982 Pages 257 pp | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1982 Publisher Bantam Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by The Black Hole of Carcosa Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Michael Reaves books The Shattered World, The Irregulars, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, InterWorld, Dragonworld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darkworld Detective is a collection of science fantasy stories written by J. Michael Reaves, published as a paperback original by Bantam Books in 1982. The linked stories feature protagonist, a detective on the planet Ja-Lur. An authorized sequel, The Black Hole of Carcosa, was written by John Shirley and published by Pocket Books in 1988.
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Reception
Writing in F&SF, John Clute described the volume as "dim but decent," faulting Reaves's narrative style as "about as close to Raymond Chandler as Kai Lung is to Confucius" but concluding that the stories are nevertheless "mostly straightforward fun."
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