Two hundred and twenty-one Baker streets

Title:

Two hundred and twenty-one Baker streets

Author:

Moore, David Thomas editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9781781082225

Publication Information:

Oxford : Abaddon Books, 2014.

Physical Description:

324 p.

Summary:

This is sherlock Holmes as you've never seen him before: as an architect in a sleepy Australian town, as a gentleman in seventeenth-century Worcestershire, as a precocious school girl in a modern British comprehensive. He's dodging his rent in the squalid rooms of the notorious Chelsea Hotel in '68, and preventing a bloody war between the terrible Lords Wizard of a world of fantasy. Editor David Thomas Moore brings together the finest of celebrated and new talent in SF and Fantasy to create a spectrum of Holmes stories that will confound everything you ever thought you knew about the world's greatest detective. -Back cover.

General Note:

"An anthology of Holmesian tales across time and space"--Front cover.

Contents:

Introduction / David Thomas Moore -- A scandal in Hobohemia / Jamie Wyman -- Black Alice / Kelly Hale -- The adventure of the speckled bandana / J. E. Cohen -- The rich man's hand / Joan De La Haye -- The lantern men / Kaaron Warren -- A woman's place / Emma Newman -- A study in Scarborough / Guy Adams -- The small world of 221B / Ian Edginton -- The final conjuration / Adrian Tchaikovsky -- The innocent Icarus / James Lovegrove -- Half there / all there / Glen Mehn-- All the single ladies / Gina Koch -- The patchwork killer / Kasey Lansdale -- Parallels / Jenni Hill.

Subject:

Holmes, Sherlock -- Fiction.

Space and time -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Science fiction

Short stories

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Summary

The world's most famous detective, as you've never seen him before! This is a collection of orginal short stories finding Holmes and Watson in times and places you would never have expected!

A dozen established and up-and-coming authors invite you to view Doyle's greatest creation through a decidedly cracked lens.

Read about Holmes and Watson through time and space, as they tackle a witch-trial in seventeenthcentury Scotland, bandy words with Andy Warhol in 1970s New York, travel the Wild Frontier in the Old West, solve future crimes in a world of robots and even cross paths with a young Elvis Presley...

Set to include stories by Kasey Lansdale, Guy Adams, Jamie Wyman, J E Cohen, Gini Koch, Glen Mehn, Kelly Hale, Kaaron Warren, Emma Newman and more.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Readers who ever wondered what Holmes and Watson would be like if they were teenaged girls will find that itch scratched here, in Jenni Hill's "Parallels." Her entry, along with 13 other short stories, will only appeal to fans of alternate universes (AUs) who are comfortable with the concept of placing the beloved characters in very different settings. According to one of Hill's characters, AUs are where "characters might be aliens, barbarian warriors, or rock stars, but at the end of the day they were still themselves." But many fans of Conan Doyle's work will recognize little here, as the authors rely mainly on gimmicks and one-liners. James Lovegrove, who has written two solid book-length Holmes pastiches, contributes the most memorable story, "The Innocent Icarus," set in a Victorian London where humankind has been divided into categories based on superhuman talents-except Typicals, like Holmes, who can "only think." That intelligent reinterpretation is the exception rather than the rule, and even those open to unconventional versions of the Master Detective will find other similar anthologies more enjoyable. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.