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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: [Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:34:59 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <1ekhjj9f58j1hihn241jvl3vjaapapo153@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>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:
>>> 
>>>> 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.  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.
>>> 
>>> 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.

The claim Leeper "replaced Science Fiction / Fantasy" with "speculative
fiction" is unmitigated nonsense for a number of reasons, not least of 
which is that the first generally cited use of the term predates Leeper's
birth by three years. 

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