Future Crimes: Mysteries and Detection Through Time and Space
Telepaths, time machines and alien encounters collide with the crime and mystery genre in this new collection exploring the space where detective stories and science fiction meet.
To reflect the broad spectrum of this genre Mike Ashley has selected ten of its most ingenious mysteries spanning the decades from 1912 to 1972. These are stories of AI acting against programming, locked-room murders in the confines of spacecraft and cases pitching the police against psychic perpetrators, penned by some of the greatest writers of crime and science fiction including P. D. James, Anthony Boucher, Isaac Asimov and Miriam Allen deFord.
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He has edited several British Library Science Fiction Classics anthologies and is the author of Yesterday’s Tomorrows, a companion to classic British science fiction published by the British Library.
Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand (British Library, 2016), Out of This World, a brief illustrated history of science fiction (British Library, 2011), and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950 (British Library, 2005). Most recently he is the author of a multi-volume history of science fiction magazines, published by Liverpool University Press.
British Library Science Fiction Classics
British Library Science Fiction Classics consists of 14 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
