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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-10-01 11:13 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-10-01 11:13 am
I need a name for a rising subgenre
What do you call books that are reacting to the reaction to 9/11? That is, post-9/11 I got books that argued e.g. that what America really needs to protect itself from the deadly menace of weaponized squirrel brains is a secret service not bound to answer to anyone, especially elected officials. Now I'm seeing material that suggest that perhaps oversight is useful and fanatical devotion to the pope national security above all else may have draw backs. What do I call that material?
[Let's clarify this:
After 9/11 there were a lot of books and TV shows whose premise was that America needed security more than minutia like civil rights. Now that a few years have passed, an increasing number of books are concerned about the abuses that are justified as being necessary for security. I was wondering what the second sort of book, the one that a counter-reaction to the reaction to 9/11, is called]
[And I unlocked this because it's not like I mentioned anything by name]
[Let's clarify this:
After 9/11 there were a lot of books and TV shows whose premise was that America needed security more than minutia like civil rights. Now that a few years have passed, an increasing number of books are concerned about the abuses that are justified as being necessary for security. I was wondering what the second sort of book, the one that a counter-reaction to the reaction to 9/11, is called]
[And I unlocked this because it's not like I mentioned anything by name]
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I know the Saint in his own vigilante/Robin Hood of Modern Crime phase predated them both, though...