Mark,
Re your question below:
> I'm sorry I can't help you on short stories
about
> narcs. However, I was
> curious if you were going to include Philip
K.
> Dick's Through a Scanner
> Darkly in your article. Or are you sticking
with
> more orthodox, non
> spec fic police procedurals?
Non-speculative fiction. This isn't a vlue judgment; it's
just that I don't really regard futuristic cop stories as
police procedurals in the most important sense; since a
procedural is based (or is supposed to be based) on how
police work is actually conducted, and since we can't KNOW
how police work will be conducted in the future (though we
may be able to make a reasonable prediction), a cop sotry set
in the future can't truly be a procedural.
JIM DOHERTY
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