[anthk]

>I used to read a lot of junk paperbacks - mostly horrors, but also stories about truck drivers, detectives and western stories. They were schematic to the extreme.

He, ditto in Spain. In most cases the (same) authors would rehash a detective story as some sci-fi based short novel by just changing some devices and lore and call it done.

Well, in the end cyberpunk it's just futuristic noir.

[sunshineforever]

Dan brown seems to do this. Da Vinci code, angels and demons, and the one about the NSA all have the same plot structure.

[anthk]

Altough my case was about really cheap short novels from the 70's, they almost were Pulp Fiction.

An infamous crime in Chicago with mafia and detectives -> some crime in Orion with spaceships, Martian troops and so on.

Altough some of them were fairly good, like one about a time travel paradox.

[anthk]

Just copycat Broken Sword so nobody notices anything.