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I've never read a Chrichton book, but I think attacking him for his subject matter is just plain goofy, at least if you're going to hold him accountable for politicians taking his fiction seriously. How can you possibly hold him accountable for that? He's an author, for Christ's sake. He writes fiction. People believe what they want to believe, and that is not, nor has it ever been, a fiction writer's responsibility. Their only responsibility is to their publisher and agent, so long as the "fiction" tag is printed on the spine of their book.

It sounds to me like you guys (well, Host, at least) are implying he shouldn't be able to write what he chooses to write (the slander bit notwithstanding).

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