1/ tangent: "procedural" describes the flavor of the narrative arc: it follows the procedures to do a thing flavor of the arc is orthogonal to genre (crime, medicine, etc.) >>>https://twitter.com/ElamBend/status/1423764182906851330 …
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2/ in the n-vs-m matrix of arc flavors vs genres, there are several clusters medical procedurals (House MD) and police procedurals (The Wire) are common ...but there are other, under-explored areas in that state space! I'd love to see, I dunno, a horror or cowboy procedural
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3/ there's a lot of "engineering procedural" in Aristillus, and there's tons more lurking just off screen The John-and-Dogs-cobbling-together-a-spaceship ( an homage to Flight of the Phoenix (1965) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_%281965_film%29 … ) was one big one.
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4/ My short story Staking a Claim https://www.amazon.com/Staking-Claim-Aristillus-Travis-Corcoran/dp/1709969407 … is an engineering procedural, combined with a big of man-against-nature / man-against-himself (nerd hikes cross country in a space suit until his thighs bleed, then keeps walking).
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5/ Caterpillar https://www.amazon.com/Caterpillar-Travis-J-I-Corcoran-ebook/dp/B08HL84PLR/ … is also pure engineering procedural...with zombies.
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6/ applies to both Aristillus and The Wire, season 2 !!!https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1423767081762365441 …
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7/ Heinlein brushed up against procedurals, but often did them off screen, or in "as you know, Bob" asides. I need to reread Farmer in the Sky, which had at least two procedural bits that I remember (one was describing how to make soil on Ganymede)
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9/ Absolutely! I love the Mike mini procedurals (e.g. making a spike strip from a garden hose)https://twitter.com/josecamoessilva/status/1423799997645025287?s=19 …
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Burn Notice too, though one wonders about the validity of its fieldcraft. 
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