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[Big Hair Big Guns] High Frontier by Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
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James Nicoll
2024-11-14 13:52:02 UTC
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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
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James Nicoll
2024-11-14 13:53:03 UTC
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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.
--
My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
Lynn McGuire
2024-11-14 22:22:01 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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.

Lynn
Lynn McGuire
2024-11-14 22:41:48 UTC
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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.
Lynn
The genre is thriller something. Maybe the word mystery is in there.

Lynn
Paul S Person
2024-11-15 16:18:31 UTC
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
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Post by James Nicoll
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?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
Lynn McGuire
2024-11-15 20:35:24 UTC
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
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Post by James Nicoll
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 !

Thanks,
Lynn
Paul S Person
2024-11-16 17:12:19 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Paul S Person
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by James Nicoll
Post by James Nicoll
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.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
James Nicoll
2024-11-16 18:34:59 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Paul S Person
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
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Post by James Nicoll
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.
--
My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
James Nicoll
2024-11-16 18:36:49 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:35:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Paul S Person
On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:41:48 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by James Nicoll
Post by James Nicoll
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.
There were, of course, earlier instances.
--
My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll
Christian Weisgerber
2024-11-16 19:28:05 UTC
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Technothriller?
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.
In particular, it's _one_ piece of future tech in what is otherwise
the present.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber ***@mips.inka.de
Paul S Person
2024-11-17 16:36:51 UTC
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:28:05 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber
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Technothriller?
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.
In particular, it's _one_ piece of future tech in what is otherwise
the present.
Generally, yes. Particularly if its a MacGuffin. Or theoretical.

Nonetheless, if the tech doesn't exist, the story is nudged toward
being SF (at the time it comes out, of course).
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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