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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:12:19 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: <1ekhjj9f58j1hihn241jvl3vjaapapo153@4ax.com> References: <vh4va2$qne$1@reader1.panix.com> <vh4vbv$hlc$1@reader1.panix.com> <vh5t69$3139m$2@dont-email.me> <vh5ubd$3139m$5@dont-email.me> <22tejj5idpthfrrrdp563ojrqj5itmu4hq@4ax.com> <vh8bad$3ir9b$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:12:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8516367e8037efea72625a3601f4f7e3"; logging-data="138013"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iUH1blf0qlh9iJ1VItEZ6OkHf8SDzjus=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RMRC7EVBaDTk7RF8WX7xcdV33JM= Bytes: 2697 On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >On 11/15/2024 10:18 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire >> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 11/14/2024 4:22 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>> On 11/14/2024 7:53 AM, James Nicoll wrote: >>>>> In article <vh4va2$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.'"