A bit disjointed today, as if I’m not everyday. Talked about Jaxon Reed’s Star Farmer, city builders and crafters, and Joyce Lionarons’s Matthew Cordwainer Smith and Gavin Rownt mysteries.
Edit: to correct Matthew Cordwainer. I knew it was wrong when when I typed it but my brain didn’t stop to fix it on the way by.
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Probably the most famous series of medieval murder mysteries are those by the late Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael, a soldier of the First Crusade who retired into a monastery and became its herbalist. Cadfael used his knowledge of herbs and his experience as a soldier to solve various crimes in the vicinity of Shrewsbury during the chaotic period following the death of Henry I. Peters fell in love with the character as the series proceeded, and the later novels were less mystery than they were chapters of Cadfael’s fascinating life.
Gotta second this recommendation. Brother Cadfael is wonderful. There’s a BBC series starring Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael.
Okay, 2 recommends. I’m looking into this with the first book in the series in ebook from the library. Thanks.
Joyce Lionaron’s novels seem to be Matthew Cordwainer. Cordwainer Smith was a Golden Age SF author, pen name for Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger – best known for _The Game of Rat and Dragon_ and the Instrumentality of Mankind stories, particularly “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell”:
She got the which of the what-she-did,
Hid the bell with a blot, she did,
But she fell in love with a hominid.
Where is the which of the what-she-did?
I claim brain cloud. Thank you.