My art of gig yakverse fiction may not be great, but it does dissolve/invent a genre -- absurdist consultant fiction with elements of sci-fi and fantasy but base content being basic airport-business-book style business ideas. It's the only one of it's kind I know of.
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Also bits of murder mystery.
There's such a thing as consultant fiction but afaik I'm the only one who's gone down this particular genre-bending bunnytrail.
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see also/related... Iain Banks
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way further
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grr I feel like I read something in the last 2 years about an asylum of consultants/futurists, but I can't find it...
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But do these examples also double as literal business advice books? Ie didactic dual purpose by intention?
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Yeah, Goldratt falls into basic business parable, though rather long, so they don't attempt to entertain as stories qua stories, so I classify it as nonfiction really. I think what I'm trying to do is true dual purpose: fun as a story AND as a bit of consulting how-to advice
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Various Weinberg-cabal folks have written Goldratty stuff. Jerry himself wrote a fair amount of fiction but I don't think any of it was directly instructional.
leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg

