Re: [Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham

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:
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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:

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High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
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SPACE! and LASER CANNON will save America from having to choose between
suicidal atomic commiegeddon or accepting Russian domination!
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/live-another-day

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Technically not SFF but close enough.

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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.
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The genre name fits quite well into the "Speculative Fiction" that
Evelyn Leeper replaced Science Fiction / Fantasy with.

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The genre is thriller something.  Maybe the word mystery is in there.

 
Technothriller?

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YES !

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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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