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词条 Murder in Millennium VI
释义

  1. Plot introduction

  2. Notes

  3. References

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| author = Curme Gray
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| cover_artist = Robert Johnson
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Science fiction novel
| publisher = Shasta Publishers
| release_date = 1951
| english_release_date =
| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 249 pp
| oclc = 1894929
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}}Murder in Millennium VI is a science fiction novel by author Curme Gray. It was published in 1951 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 2,500 copies, and included in a Mystery Guild omnibus edition.[1] The novel was the subject of an extensive analysis in Damon Knight's In Search of Wonder (1956). Paul Di Filippo favorably describes it as "utter futuristic strangeness unleavened by infodumps."[2] Less sympathetically, Groff Conklin, reviewing the novel on its release, declared that "The style is opaque, the characters wooden. posturing empty, and unreal."[3] P. Schuyler Miller reported that although the novel violated most of the standard conventions of the mystery story, and is "unfair to organized readers" who expect that all the information needed to resolve the mystery is presented in the story, the novel still creates "a growing fascination in the situation as it unravels -- or rather entangles itself -- which is rather effective."[4]

Plot introduction

Set 6,000 years in the future, the novel concerns the murder of the head of a matriarchal society. Victor Mitchel and his parents and sister struggle to replace her and find the killer before the society collapses. The novel is unique in that anything which would have been known to the people of its time was not explained.

Notes

1. ^{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=593 | year=1998}}
2. ^*{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/1999/cur9901.htm |title=Curiosities|accessdate=2008-04-22|last=Di Filippo |first=Paul |authorlink=Paul Di Filippo |date=January 1999 |work=Fantasy and Science Fiction }}
3. ^"Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1952, p.102
4. ^"The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, November 1952, p.156

References

  • {{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=593 | year=1998}}
  • {{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction | location=New York| publisher=St. Martin's Griffin | pages=518 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
  • {{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=192 | year=1978|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
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