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  • (ReacTor) Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 21 10:12:53 2025
    Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

    Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making
    a mess...

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-about-meddling-mystery-solving-kids/
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  • From Garrett Wollman@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed May 21 22:12:32 2025
    In article <100kn15$8jn$[email protected]>,
    James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
    Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

    Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making
    a mess...

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-about-meddling-mystery-solving-kids/

    There was a, ummm, either a novella or a novelette, I'm not going to
    count the words myself and the book isn't handy, in one of Lackey's
    Valdemar anthologies which is quite obviously a Scooby-Doo pastiche,
    right down to a horse-drawn Mystery Machine which then shows up in one
    of the later-published novels under a different guise.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to Garrett Wollman on Wed May 21 22:43:07 2025
    In article <100lj4g$25ib$[email protected]>,
    Garrett Wollman <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <100kn15$8jn$[email protected]>,
    James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
    Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

    Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making
    a mess...

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-about-meddling-mystery-solving-kids/

    There was a, ummm, either a novella or a novelette, I'm not going to
    count the words myself and the book isn't handy, in one of Lackey's
    Valdemar anthologies which is quite obviously a Scooby-Doo pastiche,
    right down to a horse-drawn Mystery Machine which then shows up in one
    of the later-published novels under a different guise.


    They also did a cameo in Derek Landy's "Demon Road" books, and in
    S.J. Day's _Eve of Destruction_.
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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue May 27 13:13:03 2025
    On Wed, 21 May 2025 16:13:26 -0400, Cryptoengineer
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 5/21/2025 10:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

    Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making
    a mess...

    https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-about-meddling-mystery-solving-kids/

    The "Blyton Summer Detective Club" is almost certainly a nod to Enid
    Blyton (1897-1962). She was a prolific author of children's literature
    at the Asimovian level (762 books, many short).

    She had multiple series with the 'meddling mystery solving kids' theme, >including The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, and The Five Find-Outers.

    She never really sold in the US (perhaps Canada is different), but
    her works filled the bookstore children's sections in England.

    I never read any Blyton books, but growing up in Canada I >certainly<
    knew who Enid Blyton was (10-12 year old me: "ew! They're GIRLS
    books!") Since there were no daughters in our family neither my
    brother nor I would have been caught dead bringing them home from the library...

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