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Subject: Re: [Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:18:31 -0800
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>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.
>>=20
>> I ran into the genre name of this type of book recently but I cannot=20
>> remember at the moment.=A0 It is terrible getting old, I forget a lot =
of=20
>> things now.
>>=20
>> The genre name fits quite well into the "Speculative Fiction" that=20
>> Evelyn Leeper replaced Science Fiction / Fantasy with.
>
>The genre is thriller something.  Maybe the word mystery is in there.

Technothriller?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"