Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body: a Guerline Scarfe investigation

by Simon Petrie

Overview

Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why.

This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her.

Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body won the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella or Novelette, and was shortlisted in the analogous category in both the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648322801
Publisher:	Simon Petrie
Publication date:	05/04/2018
Series:	Titan sequence , #1
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction. His work has been shortlisted for numerous Australian and New Zealand SF awards, and he has twice won the Sir Julius Vogel Award.

Editorial Reviews

"I haven't enjoyed something from this subgenre so much since Caves of Steel - this is a story Asimov might have written if he'd been obsessed with Titan and Nordic crime instead of robots, if he'd actually been the secular humanist he aspired to be, and if he'd had access to all the fascinating modern research into the solar system."

—Thoraiya Dyer, author of the Titan's Forest series

"I thoroughly enjoyed this novella. Petrie’s writing just gets better and better all the time. The main character, Guerline Scarfe, was very well drawn and engaging."

—Dawn Meredith, author of Letters from the Dead

"I highly recommend Matters Arising From the Identification of the Body to fans of science fiction and mystery/crime stories. It is both a procedural and science fiction, but I expect it will appeal more to fans of the latter genre than the former."

—Tsana Dolichva, astrophysicist and co-editor of Defying Doomsday

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