[Nineteenth Century] An Atypical Novelist

Nebula Lance, astrophysicist. After transmigrating to London in 1880, she challenges herself to try writing novels. Her first book is titled 48 Hours Before Pompeii’s Doomsday: I Made Ten Thousand Pounds! When the novel becomes a bestseller, the detective Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street comes to see her. Sherlock: Your apocalyptic novel seems to have foretold the sudden death of an archaeologist in Pompeii. Nebula: Interesting.jpg Her second book is titled After Winning the Lottery, I Became a Top Food Critic. The detective is back. Sherlock: Your food novel seems to have foreshadowed the death of the American president. Nebula: Very interesting.jpg Her third book is titled Her Body Temperature: 34.9°C. The detective is back again. And again. And again. Sherlock: Since the release of your new book, several crime scenes have featured bloody writing signed with your pen name. Nebula: Extremely interesting.jpg She seems to have acquired a strange writing aura. Much later, Nebula is eager to write The Great Detective’s Untold Secret and see what Sherlock will bring her this time. Sherlock: Are you sure? All my secrets have to do with you. On the last day of the nineteenth century, Watson quietly wrote in his diary: My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is the greatest detective of this century. There is no equal. His beloved, Nebula Lance, is the most legendary novelist of this century. There is no equal. In a sense, compared to Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, Lance is the more dangerous one. Coming soon next door: The Unconventional American Gold Digger [1980s]. Add it to your favorites! A cryptographer transmigrates to New York in 1979. She becomes Sylvan Woods, an aspiring Hollywood star. America’s “Era of Greed” is just around the corner. But she starts out with five thousand dollars in medical debt. Act to pay off the debt? No. Her first windfall comes from taking advantage of a big-name director. She cobbles together a mechanical device at no cost, solving a major problem with split-screen effects in film production. One day, as Sylvan assembles equipment, she listens to a radio dramatization of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A knock comes at the door of her rented room. It’s her new roommate. His name is also Sherlock Holmes, and he’s a university student who just took a leave of absence. ~~ Sherlock was about to retire to a quiet life of beekeeping. Then he wakes up as a nineteen-year-old university student with the same name. He finds himself in a very different world. The familiar Victorian era of the nineteenth century is long gone. The unfamiliar era of twentieth-century microcomputers is about to begin. And Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes makes him wonder whether he is a fictional character or a real person. Sherlock: First things first, where can I buy some good honey? In a nutshell: A transmigrated powerhouse and a detective from another time meet in 1980s America, where “greed is good.” Theme: Live life boldly, never looking back