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A review by mackle13
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Simon Vance, John Joseph Adams, Anne Flosnik
3.0
Like all anthologies, this collection is hit or miss. None of the stories were particularly bad or anything, it's just that not a whole lot of them were particularly awesome, either. A lot of them were fun and entertaining, but also forgettable. (I commented in my status updates with brief thoughts after pretty much every story, so the run down is there.)
The ones I remember the most, off hand, though, are:
The Doctor's Case
A Study in Emerald
The Vale of the White Horse (i.e. "the one with the horse thing")
The Adventure of the Fields Theorum (i.e. "the one which pits Holmes vs. Doyle")
"The Horror of Many Faces" (i.e. "the one with the bees" - which I liked better as I read some of the others than I did when I first read it)
Commonplaces (i.e. "the good one with Irene")
and Merridew of the Abominable Memory (i.e. "the sad one about the memory guy")
I guess my biggest sense of... disappointment, I suppose, with the collection is that a lot of them weren't really all that fantastic or improbable. A few seemed like they could almost have been from the original stories - which is cool in one way, but I was expecting a bit more oddity, I suppose, and only a few of them delivered on that.
Overall, though, it is a decent collection of Holmes stories, and, as I said, none of them were bad, and all were entertaining enough.
The ones I remember the most, off hand, though, are:
The Doctor's Case
A Study in Emerald
The Vale of the White Horse (i.e. "the one with the horse thing")
The Adventure of the Fields Theorum (i.e. "the one which pits Holmes vs. Doyle")
"The Horror of Many Faces" (i.e. "the one with the bees" - which I liked better as I read some of the others than I did when I first read it)
Commonplaces (i.e. "the good one with Irene")
and Merridew of the Abominable Memory (i.e. "the sad one about the memory guy")
I guess my biggest sense of... disappointment, I suppose, with the collection is that a lot of them weren't really all that fantastic or improbable. A few seemed like they could almost have been from the original stories - which is cool in one way, but I was expecting a bit more oddity, I suppose, and only a few of them delivered on that.
Overall, though, it is a decent collection of Holmes stories, and, as I said, none of them were bad, and all were entertaining enough.