Barry B. Longyear

Jaggers & Shad: Abc is for Artificial Beings Crimes Barry B. Longyear

From the seriously warped mind of author Barry B. Longyear. It's a world in which human engrams can be and are copied into bios that can be grown to resemble anything from movie stars to rats, and into mechanicals from lipstick-sized micros up to full-sized mechs. Although all self-aware AB's (Artificial Beings) in the United Kingdom had recently been granted full rights of citizenship, the crimes committed by and against AB's necessitated special laws and its own international branch of law enforcement: Interpol's Artificial Beings Crimes Division. The cases recounted in Jaggers & Shad: ABC is for Artificial Beings Crimes are from the files of Exeter's Devon office, a law enforcement unit one must literally die to get into: Harrington Jaggers, an android that looks like Basil Rathbone; his amdroid partner Guy Shad, the former insurance duck; Jaggers's former partner, an incontinent gorilla amdroid, and running the unit a detective superintendent who is a dead ringer for John Dillinger. Foreword by Her Majesty, Queen Mehitabel. This is the complete award winning series that appeared in Analog plus two previously unpublished cases.