Kop by Warren Hammond was recommended to me as a science fiction detective story and I’m a sucker for a good science fiction detective story. It is a detective story in a science fiction setting, but the science is minimized and completely irrelevant to the story. It tries to be a noir, but ultimately fails at that level. The science fiction setting is just that, a setting. There is little to tell that we are on a different world with future technology. As a detective novel it’s a decent story with an ending that is designed to lead into a sequel more than provide closure.

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