Hypercime is a new blog-format magazine for the Crime Fiction devotee. It is our hope that this will be a fun, vibrant and insightful source of information for enthusiasts of all varieties of crime fiction, as well as a place to get news on upcoming book releases, author interviews, retrospectives, and other features.
My name is Leland Buck, and I am launching Hypercrime because I’m a writer, and a former bookseller, and I believe that as long as there are at least two people in this world, there will be crime fiction. I find it fascinating that despite all the advances in science and technology in the last century that the stories of Conan Doyle, Christie, Marsh, and Sayers (to mention only a few) still thrill and delight. No advance in science or technology can eradicate good and evil, and the rise of the computer and DNA sequencing, like fingerprinting a century before, only add to the flavor of intrigue and the need for smart sleuths who can still plumb the depths of depravity to find their quarry. I’d like to believe that for every person in the world who wants to shoot, stab, poison, or in some other way assist in the demise of another human being, that there are a thousand people who would wish to read how their favorite sleuth tracked down the murderous villian. (And yes it does strike me that 1 in 1000 is a frightful but not implausible ratio.) Crime fiction is about the good and the bad in all of us, and as such is a window through which the world can be viewed in all its darkness but without having to discard our belief that the good guy will always prevail.
And who are these GOOD GUYS? Crime fiction gratifies us not only because of the complexity of deviousness of the crime. The modern crime novel can have any hero, male or female, of any race, religion, native language, or from any country. The hero can even be a serial killer.
Crime Fiction is a very broad, very diverse classification which has come to include a number of character types, and spans numerous classifications and genres. This too only adds to the excitement.
So, whether you are an occasional reader, or a committed fan, we welcome you to subscribe to our RSS feed, add us to your Google Reader, or just visit us from time to time to see what’s new in Crime Fiction.
Welcome to the crime fiction blogosphere. Please do join our crime fiction reading discussion group at Friend feed http://friendfeed.com/crime-and-mystery-fiction. Quite a few crime fiction blogs feed into that group. Let me know if you would like your blog to be included. Looking forward to future posts.
Best wishes
Maxine.