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- noun A literary or cinematic work that combines suspense and tightly plotted action with a relatively high degree of technological detail.
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My next projects are a studio-budgeted script I wrote with the awesome Mark Millar creator ofWanted and Kick Ass called Supercrooks, about a supervillain heist, and a techno-thriller called Windows, kind of "Rear Window" for the Internet era.
Turnstyle: Director Nacho Vigalondo Unearths The Romantic Soul of the Modern Nerd Turnstyle 2011
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Rok Pandemie feels like a cover I have seen a thousand times on books I don't want to buy, some apocalyptic techno-thriller, maybe Tom Clancy or Lustbader - not my cup of tea.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake 2010
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Daemon is more techno-thriller than anything else, but it does have some SF elements involved, mostly surrounding technology and its possible uses by a malevolent entity.
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My next projects are a studio-budgeted script I wrote with the awesome Mark Millar creator ofÂWanted and Kick Ass called Supercrooks, about a supervillain heist, and a techno-thriller called Windows, kind of "Rear Window" for the Internet era.
Turnstyle: Director Nacho Vigalondo Unearths The Romantic Soul of the Modern Nerd Turnstyle 2011
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More techno-thriller than pure science fiction, the book is solid and a lot of fun to read.
January 2009 2009
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SFSignal. com has posted an interview I did with Jonathan Maberry, martial artist and author of Patient Zero, a techno-thriller.
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In the meantime, though, Mr. Pressfield has treated the reader to a thinking person's techno-thriller—which turns out to be not at all a contradiction in terms.
Futuristic Soldiers of Fortune Tom Nolan 2011
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But I kept thinking of how Oshii incorporates the right amount of pathos and comedy (yes, comedy - Oshii can be a funny guy when he wants to) into this futuristic techno-thriller and I kept coming back to this second film in the Patlabor franchise.
MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010
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Michael Crichton left behind a cryptic road map for an unfinished techno-thriller when he died of cancer in 2008.
Deciphering Michael Crichton's Clues Alexandra Alter 2011
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And when I say Suarez puts the 'tech' in 'techno-thriller', I mean it.
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