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Subject:RE: Is there such a thing as technical fiction? From:"Anita Legsdin" <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:33:09 -0800
Actually--now that I think of it--there are management training books
that couch lessons in fiction. I went to a leadership seminar last
spring and received "Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment," by William C.
Byham, Ph.D. I think that qualifies as technical fiction. I also read
another one, but the title and author's name escape me right now.
"Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies. "
-Nietzsche
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> 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' by Robert Pirsig.
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> Pirsig was a technical writer and the hippy-era cult novel is a sort
> of
> father-son bonding odyssey combined with mystical musings on man's
> relationship with machines and the nature of Quality.
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