Alison wrote:
Stephen wrote:
a story where a murder was being investigated against a back drop of, say,
the purges on Saurian Major with a very pedantic police official attempting to solve a crime oblivious of the far greater crime being committed by the authorities. I'm not sure if that would work though.<<
I think this is a very good idea for a detective story, as it isn't just fun in itself but you are using the genre, with its theme of restoring moral order, to make the point that the federation has no moral order.
<groan> Alison, why do you keep firing my imagination when I have absolutely no time to write? And Stephen, I'm holding you to blame on this one too!
Una