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| Auteur | Faust, Joe C. |
| Titel | A Death of Honor |
| Uitgever | Del Rey |
| Genre | SF / Fantasy |
| Reeksnummer | 34026 |
| Editie | 1987- first edition - pocket - 326 p. |
| ISBN nummer | 0345340264 |
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| Beschrijving staat | (VG) |
| Gewicht | 180 gram |
| Past door brievenbus (Ja/Nee) | Ja |
| Prijs | € 4,00 |
| Omschrijving | Essef - Joe Clifford Faust possesses the rare ability to produce science fiction that is simultaneously fun and substantial, as this fabulous SF mystery from the late 80's demonstrates. The premise is inspired: in the near future, the police are just too damn busy to handle every case, so the 31st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides victims the right and resources to conduct their own investigation.
Our likable protagonist, Payne, finds occasion to take the 31st, when he comes home one evening to find a dead girl in his apartment. Payne and his friend Bailey are club-hopping bachelors (well, everyone is in THIS future society, and that's where the fun comes in), but Payne is also a skilled bio-engineer, so he's prepared to act as his own CSI.
The bio-medicine in Death of Honor is impressively convincing (Faust must have done some serious research here), and handled in a way that the reader can follow. Payne's labwork is used to expose critical plot-points, rather than as an excuse to toss around bleeding-edge buzzwords. In a sense, this novel was considerably ahead of it's time - fifteen years later, we're a nation of forensics buffs. |
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