Hello ArtEndsemble,

Wrong, I did not change my thesis. My thesis was about fanciful works of fiction, and I named two: Works by Atwood and Clancy. And when another post writer brought out works of non-fictional material (e.g. assassinating Bin Laden in a Pakistan hideout), I stepped forward to emphasize that my thesis was about fanciful works of fiction. It was pretty clear, though, in my original post, given that I was talking about writers choosing villain types from a menu of possibilities.  

Your comment is not compelling, about Clancy's fiction having an authentic feel, since Jurassic Park and Avatar also have authentic feels. Good fiction is like that, grounded in real-world concerns like profit and environmentalism and what have you. The functionally important feature, though, is that as a fiction writer you decide if your environment villain will be an outer space mining company, or a dinosaur genetic engineer industrialist, or a radical Christian, or a radical Muslim.