Genres
Techno-thriller
A hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action and war novels, with exceptional technical detail.
The techno-thriller is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action and war novels: thriller pacing carrying an exceptional amount of technical detail, often military. Plots hinge on how the technology actually works, and the genre functions as contemporary speculative fiction; Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, and Craig Thomas's Firefox are the anchor works.
Research is the genre's raw material, and it blurs into hard science fiction at one edge. Its hardware is also continuity: specifications, ranges and vulnerabilities stated once are canon for the rest of the book or serial.