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Clancy's book is Rainbow Six, though the derivation from Seal Team Six is pretty likely.

I think that was the book that made me stop reading Clancy novels, come to think of it.

When I read Rainbow Six, I remember wondering if he wrote parts of it to be more applicable in the video game, a la Splinter Cell. The heartbeat monitor, the map types (jungle, city, amusement park)... it seemed like nice fit.

They were still a good read though.

In the age of Twitter and Instagram it's not really productive to insult book readers for reading the "wrong" books. I don't want us to lose reading.

(Also Rainbow Six was sweet)

I distinctly remember Tom Clancy writing about this type of technology near the end of Rainbow Six (published in 1998) -- He always seemed pretty well informed on what was undergoing testing if not what was actually in use.

The Bible,

Wild at Heart,

How to Win Friends and Influence People,

Songs for Martha <-- I have an autographed copy,

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,

Rainbow Six (and most other Clancy books)

I don't read much fiction either. I did read more when I was younger.

I enjoyed many of the Halo books (there are a couple duds in there too), which lead me to other books authored by Eric Nylund. I like his writing style, even though he has more fantasy elements to his stories than I would typically like but it somehow works. A Game of Universe and Mortal Coils are some that I have read.

I also read some of the Splinter Cell books. They were ok from what I remember, but probably only good if you liked the games. Tom Clancy has some good books (the Splinter Cell game books are ghost written). I remember Rainbow Six was a good one.

You could also try non-fiction adventure books. Since they are set in areas you are not familiar with, your brain still has to build the environment and imagery. Something like One Man's Wilderness. I enjoyed that book. I used to read and listen to books like Hatchet and this was along the same lines but non-fiction. I'd also say to be careful about these. For me, it makes me want to quit and live on a farm.

> ...Red Storm Rising is a rather solid work of fiction about a similar event.

Indeed it is! I believe some of the scenes in there were the result of table top war games played out, then written up.

Tom Clancy's writings are both really good, and lately really disturbing. I just finished Rainbow Six, and similarities to 2020 abound.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six had a created virus released at the Olympics as a plot point.

Overall I read a mix of some sci-fi, business type books, and a little Clancy mixed in.

1. Fear - Bob Woodward (did not actually get too far before dropping it)

2. Radical Candor - Kim Malone Scott (interesting)

3. Black & Decker Complete Guide to Wiring (VERY helpful during my home renovation, did most of my electrical)

4. Pitch Perfect - Bill McGowan (helpful for communication)

5. Quantum Thief/Fractal Price/Causal Angel [Jean le Flambeur series] - Hannu Rajaniemi (I enjoyed the first book in this trilogy the best, the third was too difficult for me to understand! Very hard Sci-fi)

6. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (enjoyed the audio production from BBC radio)

7. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu (enjoyed several of the short stories very much)

8. Revelation Space/Chasm City/Redemption Ark/Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds (love the series but it is long!)

9. Executive Orders - Tom Clancy (not my favorite Clancy book but still fun)

10. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy (also not my favorite Clancy book, a little more fun than Executive Orders though)

While waiting for the next Game of Thrones book I picked up a few new series that I really enjoyed! I hope to get a few new suggestions out of this list.

The Expanse - James Corey

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

Broken Earth - NK Jemisin

Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (translated: Ken Liu)

I can't help but think about the plot of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.

Reminds me of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six...

Who still believes global warming does not exist?

I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.

This book is almost quarter of century old.

> Who still believes global warming does not exist?

Nobody is denying that the weather has been warming. It's all the political hysterics and nonsense that a lot of people have issues with. And of course the "world-is-ending" chicken little craziness.

> I am currently listening to audiobook of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998). It has a paragraph on global warming and trying to convince POTUS it is real. And POTUS not wanting to act on it because it would be too large economic drag on US.

And if you watched Day After Tomorrow, are you going to use that as an example of the globe cooling?

With every shift in weather, the media and the mindless always scream the world is ending. Our parents' generation had to worry about global cooling.

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9449...

Here's a documentary featuring leonard nemoy about "climate change".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0

If you were alive 50 years ago, you'd ranting about global cooling. Did the world end 50 years ago? Of course not. But of course global warming/climate change isn't about the climate is it? It's about politics and business. I'll make a bet, in 50 years, we are all going to be laughing about global warming like we laugh about global cooling today. Banks are making 100 year old loans, all major powers are angling for influence over the arctic, etc. Doesn't seem like the political, business, military, etc elites are preparing for the world to end anytime soon.

Yep. Almost exactly the same situation was described in the book. I'd bet Pianka has read "Rainbow Six".

Clancy's "Debt of Honor" had a former Japanese WWII pilot hijack a 747 and fly it into the Capitol during the President's State of the Union address, destroying 2 of the 3 branches of the U.S. government.

It spooks me that the bad guys probably read Clancy's (and others such as Pianka) works for ideas.

Pianka claims that his words were misconstrued: that he merely stated that, due to wayward policies, we were headed for a pandemic and consequent population collapse and that an airborne form of Ebola could be a possible cause of such events. See the links provided by other posts.