The Adventure of the Field Theorems
by Vonda N. McIntyre
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A Sherlock Holmes Scientific Romance. In which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hires Mr Sherlock Holmes to investigate crop circles, and Dr Watson demonstrates to Mr Holmes the usefulness of astronomy."The Adventure of the Field Theorems" was originally published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit and is reprinted with the kind permission of the editors, Mike Resnick & Martin Harry Greenberg.
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Sherlock Holmes takes on crop circles. McIntyre gets the tone right, but the characters seem just a bit off.
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Vonda Neel McIntyre was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 28, 1948. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970 and studied genetics there as a postgraduate until ending her studies in 1971. In 1973, her short story, Of Mist, Grass, and Sand, won a Nebula Award for best novelette. Her novel, show more Dreamsnake, won a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award in 1978. She wrote five Star Trek novels including The Entropy Effect and Enterprise: The First Adventure. Her other novels included Curve of the World and The Moon and the Sun, which won a Nebula Award in 1997. She died from pancreatic cancer on April 1, 2019 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Sherlock Holmes; John H. Watson; Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Holder; Little Robbie; Constable Brown (show all 7); Jean Conan Doyle
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- Surrey, England, UK
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- Holmes laughed like a Bedlam escapee.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believes I am a Martian."
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