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Starting in the late 1970s and continuing on until the early 1990s, a number of American, British, and Canadian writers produced a series of novels--twentyone in total--about a fictional World War III set in the context of the Cold War. Some of these authors--Sir John Hackett, Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, Clive Cussler--are well-known; others are less so. Their books depict a direct military confrontation between the United States and the former Soviet Union or its proxies, and they were immensely popular at the time--many of them were best sellers. These books were profoundly influential because they focused attention on specific issues and forced discussion among those in power. This article is different in that it makes distinctions in the genre that these earlier scholars did not address, and it examines not just one author but the entire future-war field of literature of the late Cold War period.