Proposed detectives and settings for cozy-adjacent science fiction mysteries, a genre I am hereby inventing by sheer power of will:
- nosy archivist in a solar punk community
- exceedingly patient book-keeper on a Quaker intentional community orbiting Venus
- tech recruiter in Nairobi, space capital of Africa, who finds themself spending more and more time solving elaborately high-tech murders than recruiting
- precocious child on a generations ship who has finished all ten years of self-paced school curriculum by age nine and now spends their time solving crime
- private homicide detective who hops from one oceanic microstate on Europa to another (since homicide levels in any given microstate are so low the whole moon shares one detective)
- sapient Maine Coon who roams the alleys of a sprawling station, whose understanding of human language comes from consuming way too many noir detective novels
