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Grey_Area
03/23/09

In reply to 22 Cases of Sherlock Holmes in Science Fiction
Also of interest is Their Majesties' Bucketeers by two-time Prometheus Award winner L. Neil Smith. It is an adventure of a very alien Holmesian detective. The only book of Smith's that I did not completely despise!
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
03/23/09

@Grey_Area: I agree with every single word you wrote here. In the same order you wrote them.
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Kevin Howell
03/22/09

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You missed one. Sorry I'm that guy. There was a cartoon in either the 90's or early 2000's that was Sherlock in the future. Watson's female descendant was a police officer who worked with him. Flying cars and stuff. I think he was part of a sherlock holmes museum piece that actually contained him. Holmes then went to work solving crimes that had all kinds of stuff like robots and computers.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/22/09

@Kevin Howell: Are you sure that isn't Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century? Sure, it was a female Lestrade, not Watson, but pretty much everything else checks out.
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coren
03/22/09

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How can one have an adventure (presumably on TV) and yet not share the screen? I am confused.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/22/09

@coren: I'm one of those ultra-nerdy types who don't consider the Doctor's adventures limited by the television screen. They've met, but only in the books (and there's a reference in an audio, for what that's worth).
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Cozmic
03/22/09

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"Oh, and Spock quotes one of Holmes's most famous lines in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country when he says, "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth", which totally implies Holmes is his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather or something. You know, come to think of it, I can sort of see the resemblance."

Actually I think this implies Arthur Conan Doyle is one of Spock's ancestors since TNG establishes that Sherlock Holmes is fictional within the Trek universe, pretty sure those episodes of TNG predate ST 6, good try though.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/22/09

@Cozmic: Yeah, I did realize that far more likely implies a Conan Doyle connection than a proper Holmes link. I just thought it was more amusing to think Spock was a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes. I mean, there's always the literary agent hypothesis to drag both Holmes the person and Holmes the character into the Star Trek universe.
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cam
03/22/09

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Dr. Gregory House deserves honorary mention.

he's the very incarnation of Sherlock Holmes, no literary allusions needed. And the show is science fiction without the space travel, aliens, or robots.
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silver-bolt
03/22/09

@mercsfornerds: And they're both patronizing drug addicts with cheating side kicks :D
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
03/23/09

@silver-bolt: House = Holmes, Wilson = Watson... it was deliberate on the writer's part.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
03/22/09

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This is great, but I'm a little appalled that you spoiled "Murders in the Rue Morgue" so casually. But then again, the Baker St. Tube station in London has a huge mural giving away the climax of "Hound of the Baskervilles," so I guess you're in good company.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/22/09

@Elizabeth Weinbloom: The day I attain the same level of literary respectability as a London tube station will be a grand day indeed.
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Aidan_
03/22/09

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I am shocked and appalled by the lack of mention of the great short-story collection Shadows Over Baker Street. Holmes and company encountering cosmic Lovecraftian terrors? It's absence is unacceptable, sir.
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Alasdair Wilkins
03/22/09

@Aidan_: I made a bit of a judgment call on Dracula and Cthulhu, two common Holmes opponents, as being somewhat distinct from science fiction and more in the horror category (with a pinch of fantasy, but that's really a different thing too). It's admittedly a gray area though.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
03/22/09

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Watching Brave and the Bold, when Batman went back in time to meet Holmes I was a bit puzzled. The following thoughts went through my mind:

"Wait a minute, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character. How can Batman meet him?"

It took me a little while to remember, that indeed Batman is also fictional.
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Roklimber
03/22/09

@OW-Holmes:

"It took me a little while to remember, that indeed Batman is also fictional."

Since when? Go to google maps and search for Gotham City. Batman's real, I'm telling you. :)

By the way, in 1994 I visited the Sherlock Holmes Museum, in London. It's located, where else, at 221B Baker Street. Awesome place.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
03/22/09

@Roklimber: I was there recently but didn't pay admission - is there actually anything good inside? Sounded like a lot of wax figures to me.

Most amusing part of the gift shop: the poor Sherlock Holmes snuff boxes and pipes that had to be emblazoned with huge SMOKING KILLS stickers.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
03/22/09

@Roklimber: You know I went to googlemaps and this is what I got...

[www.gotham-city.com.au]

I really don't think that Bats is down with prostitution. But if I have to investigate I guess I will.
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