Re: Is there such a thing as technical fiction?

[Maggie Pierce Secara <maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

--- "Karen L. Zorn" <klzorn -at- zorntech -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> How about Tom Clancy's books? There's the technical
> aspect of the miltary
> and the fiction of the characters and situations.
> Guess you could also
> include John Grisham and others of that genre.


How about the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson? 
And a lot of "hard science" science fiction is or has
been quite technical.

Not much more than some of my first drafts, true, but
still.


Maggie 

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