Sibyl Sue Blue

Stop a murder, save two planets!



Who she is: Sibyl Blue, single mom, undercover detective, and damn good at her job.



What she wants: to solve the mysterious benzale murders, prevent more teenage deaths, and maybe find her long-lost husband.



How she’ll get it: seduce a millionaire, catch a ride on his spaceship, and crack the case at the edge of the known galaxy.



“Rosel George Brown’s long-overdue first novel, SIBYL SUE BLUE, is something, believe me, else…froth and fun and furious action.”



— Judith Merril



"Sibyl Sue Blue, also known in one edition as Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue, was published in 1966 by Rosel George Brown after an apprenticeship in which 21 of her science fiction short stories found magazine homes over the previous two decades.



Judith Merril, one of the first women to be influential in science fiction, described the book in a review as “wildly entertaining” and “long overdue.” In addition, she wrote that, “under all the froth and fun and furious action, there is more acute comment on contemporary society than you are likely to find in any half dozen deadly serious social novels.” Another reviewer hoped for more fiction to come from Brown.



But, in late 1967, the author died of lymphoma, and her only other work was The Waters of Centaurus, brought into print posthumously by her husband.



Sibyl Sue Blue is the sort of woman who acts with the freedom and self-confidence of a man in an era when ladies weren’t supposed to be like that at all. Indeed, it would be decades before society, literature and entertainment caught up with Sibyl. You can see her granddaughters in the many super-women movies of the 21st century."



~Patrick T. Reardon



https://patricktreardon.com/book-review-sibyl-sue-blue-by-rosel-george-brown/