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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:12:19 -0800
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/15/2024 10:18 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 11/14/2024 4:22 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 11/14/2024 7:53 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>> In article <vh4va2$qne$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>>>> James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SPACE! and LASER CANNON will save America from having to choose =
between
>>>>>> suicidal atomic commiegeddon or accepting Russian domination!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/live-another-day
>>>>>
>>>>> Technically not SFF but close enough.
>>>>
>>>> I ran into the genre name of this type of book recently but I cannot
>>>> remember at the moment.=A0 It is terrible getting old, I forget a =
lot of
>>>> things now.
>>>>
>>>> The genre name fits quite well into the "Speculative Fiction" that
>>>> Evelyn Leeper replaced Science Fiction / Fantasy with.
>>>
>>> The genre is thriller something.  Maybe the word mystery is in there.
>>=20
>> Technothriller?
>
>YES !

This particular example may not do so, but a lot of these can also be
regarded as near-future SF because they use "tech" which doesn't exist
yet. Sometimes in action, sometimes as the MacGuffin.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"