Ryaniverse

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Ryaniverse is fandom jargon for the fictional universe centered on Tom Clancy's characters Jack Ryan, John Clark and the other characters associated with him in Clancy's series of popular novels.

Level of Realism

Though the events an people wrote about in the books are fiction, the books, especially those whose plot takes place during the Cold War, are based on actual political feelings at the time. The level of technology that takes place in the books is somewhat realistic, owing to the level of research done by Tom Clancy.

The level of realism and historical accuracy decreases as the book series goes on. This occurs because the plot takes turns that would make realism impossible.

Debt of Honor and Executive Orders were written before the (eerily similar) real-world September 11th terrorist attacks. Clancy's own fictional national catastrophe had a Japanese airline pilot hijack his own (passengerless) plane and crash it into the Capitol at the end of Debt of Honor); that attack reappears in his latest novel, The Teeth of the Tiger, when a doctor helps the team with a succinylcholine injector pen because "his brother was a trader on the 97th floor of tower 1". Clancy has been quoted as saying on Usenet that continuity is not always his most important priority.

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