Re: American War a dystopic novel

On 8/31/2024 5:17 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 31/08/2024 07:18, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vaubfv$srme$2@dont-email.me>,
Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

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

>
The Dutch might dispute that..

 Let's table that point.  On the other hand: Venice.
 

Not sure this one would be for me, sounds a bit too bleak.
>
Trying to think of other SF examples of sea rise, but all that's coming
to mind (other than the sinking of Atlantis) right now is the XKCD "Time"
sequence.

 John Wyndham, _The Kraken Wakes_ (sea people are angry)
 Stephen Baxter, _Flood_, _Ark_ (similar)
 J. G. Ballard, _The Drowned World_ (1962)
 Richard Jefferies, _After London_ (1885)
 Ken McLeod, _The Cassini Division_, I think contains
a scene, which certainly is in something, of flying
above London and observing a line of little points
sticking just above the water level.  This is the top
of the Thames Flood Barrier.
<https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational- images/thames-flood-barrier-woolwich-10386>
 I think the sea had risen in the film of
_Johnny Mnemonic_.  It definitely had in
Stephen Spielberg's _A.I._. And on a lesser
scale in _Evan Almighty_

I remember Jack Kirby's take on Earth: After Disaster -
"Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth."
The Great Lakes will have merged and Hudson's Bay gets surrounded by land.
https://www.comics.org/issue/25510/cover/4/?
per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kamandi notes that while his publisher asked the King to cook
up something reminiscent of The Planet of the Apes, Jack had
unsold ideas from as early as the mid-50s in his files which
he reworked into a new feature. And one he did sell.
 From ALARMING TALES #1 1957: "The Last Enemy"
https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/alarming-tales-1-the-last-enemy-donnegans-daffy-chair/
https://readallcomics.com/alarming-tales-1/
Harvey was still in business doing Casper and Richie Rich.
I don't think they sued.
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Kevin R
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