Family Matters: A Short Story
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From Peter F. Hamilton, Family Matters is a cyberpunk short story starring the psi-boosted private detective, Greg Mandel.
Richard Townsend would proudly call himself a man of business as he secures a lucrative, though not entirely legal, financial deal. What he believes to be easy money turns his life into a nightmare when detective Amanda Patterson knocks on his door to arrest him under suspicion of murdering local celebrity, Byrne Tayler.
On the surface, all the clues seem to point to Richard. But Richard professes his innocence. Desperate to find out the truth, and driven by her remarkable instinct, Amanda seeks advice from an ex-Mindstar Brigade soldier Greg Mendel, in the hope that Greg's enhanced psychic abilities will help to reveal the truth about what really happened . . .
Family Matters was originally published in a limited edition of Peter F. Hamilton's Mindstar Rising.
Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to FEAR Magazine in 1988. He has written many bestselling novels, including the Greg Mandel series, the Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Void trilogy, the Chronicle of the Fallers, the Salvation Sequence, short-story collections and several standalone novels, including Fallen Dragon and Great North Road.
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Reviews for Family Matters
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Really bad.
Unrealistic portrayal of the future. Unrelatable characters. BS science (human's psy-abilities, seriously? I'd expect that in 1960's new age crap, but this was written in 2000 and edited in 2013). Immoral story (if you're really sure a person is guilty, it's ok to frame them for the crime they didn't commit). Too many plot holes.
I cannot even give two stars as it was a complete waste of time.