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Subject:Re: Famous tech. communicators in literature? From:Michael Keene <MKEENE -at- UTKVX -dot- UTK -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 24 Jan 1995 13:14:31 -0500
On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, David Dubin wrote:
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> The only technical communicator in literature that I
> could suggest, with a bit of latitude, was Isaac Asimov.
Didn't Alex Haley work as a writer for the Navy? Not sure what he wrote
for them, and of course that doesn't make him a "tech. comm. *in*
lit."--but it might be close.
