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African Adventure Novel by ArcNews Editor Published |
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Says Miller, "I wrote the novel because I had read all the Quatermain books and I was eager for more. But the last book was published in 1927! So I decided to write one myself." In the process, he created what amounts to a satire of the entire genre of Sherlockian pastiches. The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life presents layers of lost texts, complete with tongue-in-cheek introductions and notes. And, of course, the underlying principle of geospatial analysis and GIS plays a part. As Sherlock says in the book, "[I]t is perfectly obvious that there are some correspondences here. The map seems to fit nicely� . We only need to put all this disparate information into focus." The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life by Thos. Kent Miller (trade pbk ISBN 0-8095-0050-7, hardcover ISBN 0-8095-0049-3) is available at WildsidePress.com, Amazon.com, and most online bookstores. See www.angelfire.com/ca6/rosemillhouse for information on Miller's 1988 Tibetan sequel. |