Re: American War a dystopic novel

On 8/30/24 18:49, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vat874$kerq$1@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 8/30/24 11:30, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/29/2024 11:52 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

I read this in May of 2017
   "American War"- set in a future of Global Warming and post American
Civil War II.  No Florida and the Southern Coast is depleted.
      The Big Bay* is in Central California.  I.e. the Central Valley
and San Joaquin Valley are flooded.  Only the high points of
the San Francisco Bay Area remain above water.
      A Free Southern State exists with a quarantine zone in South
Carolina.  Florida is gone. New Orleans is gone.
      A Mexican Protectorate extends past San Francisco and takes
up the Southern-Most tier of Western states.
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      The narrator of the tale of the female protagonist lives in
New Anchorage, Alaska where they might see frost on the
windows in  January, but it never snows.  Alaska is a Neutral
State
`    The author is one Omar El Akkad.
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      The ACW II takes place from 2074-2095 caused by the
Southern states unwillingness to abide by the ban on
Fossil Fuels finally enacted.  Florida is gone.
      A girl's father is murdered and a thirst for revenge
grows within her as the War goes on.  Horrendous acts
are done on each side and the protagonist does the
final horrendous act of the War, which kills the last
of her relatives but not intentionally.
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      It could be sub-titled Fall of the American Empire!
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      bliss

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Tallahassee, Florida (the panhandle) is 203 feet above sea level.  Is
that underwater ?
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Lynn
>

Maybe an island or washed away or the underlying geological have
collapsed. but the Florida peninsula is gone on the map.

 There's rolling hills in Hernando county as well...
 The description puts me in the mind of a certain Costner movie...

Well in this novel there is plenty of land but a lot of
productive land has been lost with the loss of the Southern mid-west.
a great big gulf where New Orleans used to be shortens the Mississippi
and some of its tributary rivers run right into that gulf.
The old USA is broken into self-interested small nations.
Except for the West Coast which has been reclaimed by Mexico. The
author may have taken some liberties in disregarding the elevations
of certain portions of the nation but it was a good read at the time.
And is pretty hard science that there is no way to defend the land
from the rising water. Exactly how fast it will happen is the main
dispute. I live in California where we have earthquakes and
active volcanoes and like rising water their is no real solution
except to get out of its way. Then we toss in the wild fires and
erratic weather and we still have too many people wanting to live
here.
bliss
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