Synopsis: The Sherlock Chronicles A mile a minute? Nonsense. Even a meat brain knows "mind going a mile a minute" is mere metaphor. For a quantum mind, a light-second per minute would be nearer to apt, if sadly sans alliteration. Ordinarily, I have my metaphorical fingers in hundreds, even thousands, of figurative pies. Any less stimulation than that is boring, and boredom is the bane of a q-mind's existence. That events in the "real" world often strike humans as inexplicable is hardly surprising. Meat brains have limits. And so, when an opportunity presented itself, I thought: why not lend a virtual hand? Every moment of diversion was welcome, and this "case," surely, a harmless amusement. Thus began my detective phase. Only I couldn't have been more wrong about harmless .... And if an AI PI isn't intriguing enough, there's also The Paradise Quartet A triumph of ingenuity and sheer will power has delivered a dying generation ship to the exoplanet Paradise. Too bad the ingenious biotech the colonists deployed to settle on that planet triggered an inexorable devolutionary cycle. Thousands of years later, possible rescuers arrive -- and are themselves ensnared in the manmade trap that is Paradise. Escape will require new ingenuity and more multi-generational striving .... Two great adventures in one volume.