I think the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war really put a dampner on almost the entire "technothriller" genre. Now everything is "rogue subs" or "spec-ops covert black ops" stuff. Big armored clashes like Fulda Gap scenarios or sea battles like red Storm Rising are all but gone. Perhaps it is the dearth of good new writers or the atrophy of the old ones or the explosion of autobiographies and true stories coming out. Or maybe with a real war on, our appetite for fictional conflict has waned. Or perhaps I just don't look hard enough in the corners of the used bookstores and online :P
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