Talk:Spy fiction
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It's really a stretch to put the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick's work in here by saying it concerns subterfuge. I have read all of Dick's work and there is nothing in it that is remotely connected with spy fiction in the conventional sense of the term. I think that this reference should be deleted.
I'm astonished there's no mention of Adam Hall's Quiller novels. They're an "anti-Bond" of another kind: where Bond is always in a tux & uses his real name (...), Quiller is always in the mud or on the run, & we don't even know his real name. And Hall's grasp of the tradecraft, IMHO, is exceptional. I'd also mention a view from the other side, which we in the West almost never get: N G Smirnov's novel Diary of a Spy, featuring agent Edward Kent, notable as being the cryptonym adopted by a real GRU agent & mem thd Red Orchestra, Viktor Sukulov-Gurevich. Trekphiler 14:21, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] spy fiction vs spy-fi
Inconsistency: The spy fiction article implies that spy-fi is an abbreviation of spy fiction. The spy-fi article says that spy-fi is spy fiction + science fiction. Which is it? —Quarl (talk) 2006-11-27 10:19Z
[edit] Techno-thrillers
Changed the section acknowledging Clancy as creator of techno-thrillers to Craig Thomas - his book Firefox was published in 1977, seven years before the Hunt for Red October. He's generally credited with inventing the sub-genre.
