http://carloshasanax.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] carloshasanax.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2009-11-21 04:51 pm (UTC)

It just occurred to me that it's something of a historical accident that the mystery developed as late as it did. There's something very Enlightenment about the classic whodunit, and something Romantic about the hardboiled style. (And note to Seawasp: the Chinese did it first.)

I think it's a tie between romance and science fiction. Neither genre's business model is particularly good at eternal verities.

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