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The Reinvented Detective

Release Date: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
Published by: Caezik SF & Fantasy
Pages: 347 pages
ISBN 13: 9781649731678
ISBN 10: 1649731671
The Reinvented Detective explores the transformation of crime and justice in a future shaped by advanced technology and evolving societal norms, featuring stories that challenge traditional detective and true crime tropes.

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The evolution of crime, punishment, and justice in the future.

What happens when time and technology change the definition of crime and punishment?

Science fiction often focuses on future technology without considering the society housing it. Social norms may change as tech changes — or not. What will criminals, investigators, judges, and juries look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge the possibilities of new laws, new police methods, and the birth of sentient Artificial Intelligence, as well as all the ways they can clash or combine?

The Reinvented Detective presents stories that complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives, punishment, and justice for all by showing how shifting technology, the rise of sentient AIs, and shifting social attitudes may affect what is not only acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities—and everything in-between. These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes, recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing, and entertaining.