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Works in which science and technology are a dominant theme, but based on current reality, may be considered mainstream fiction.

Much of the thriller genre would be included, such as the novels of Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, or the James Bond films.

Modernist works from writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, and Stanisław Lem have focused on speculative or existential perspectives on contemporary reality and are on the borderline between SF and the mainstream.

According to Robert J. Sawyer, " Science fiction and mystery have a great deal in common.

Both prize the intellectual process of puzzle solving, and both require stories to be plausible and hinge on the way things really do work.

" Isaac Asimov, Walter Mosley, and other writers incorporate mystery elements in their science fiction, and vice versa.