"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." My last post reminded me that I hadn't yet posted anything about the original -- an oversight that I now rectify! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a man of wide experience and education – a doctor who served on both a Greenland whaler and a steamship on a voyage to western Africa, a scientist with a keen sense of justice, a man fascinated with the unknown and unknowable. Though he had many notable achievements in his [ Continue reading... ]
On My Shelves: Young Sherlock Holmes
February 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The power of speculative fiction – and, indeed, of many other works of fiction – rests on the simple phrase "what if…?" What if we could reach the moon? What if you could predict the course of civilization and saw its collapse? What if the Greek Myths were real? This is of course also the foundation of much fanfic – what if the story continued, what if these people had a different relationship than shown in canon, etc. What if someone wrote a marvelous Sherlock Holmes fanfic and got it filmed? [ Continue reading... ]
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