Techno-thriller

The techno-thriller is a kind of the literature, cinema, video games and popular Cartoon. It consists in developing a contemporary intrigue of catastrophic policy-fiction (war, major terrorist threat, etc) of which the resolution passes by the use of average soldiers of high technology and by individual heroic acts. The narrative process seeks to maximize probability by calling upon the style of documentary fictionalized, by introducing real characters emblematic (Heads of State) among the protagonists and by describing with force details the most recent systems of most secret weapons and thus a priori .

Typical works of the kind

Radio

• adaptation (1938) by Orson Welles of the War of the Worlds (1898) of Herbert George Wells

Literature

• the Fifth Rider (1980) of Dominique Lapierre and Larry Hakes
• With the Red continuation of October (1984) of Tom Clancy
• Storm red (1986) of Tom Clancy
• the sum of all the fears (1991) of Tom Clancy
• June 10th, 1999: the first nuclear war has just begun (1994) of Eric L. Harry
• Seawolf - Mission of the last chance (1994) of Michael DiMercurio

Cinema

• Capricorn One (David Hyams, 1977)

Television

• 24 hours stopwatch
• the Third World war (mini-series)

Cartoon

• the Vampires tackle the night followed Terror comes from the sky (Adventures of Tanguy and Laverdure) (1971) of Jean-Michel Charlier and Jijé
• Opération Apocalypse (Buck Danny) of Jean-Michel Charlier and Francis Bergèse
• XIII of Jean Van Hamme
• Alpha of Jigounov and Mythic

Video games

• the series of Metal GEAR