Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
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Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
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Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
frosty SF and fantasy novels!
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/

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I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
effective response to global warming...
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if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
"fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.

One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
died again (if that actually happened; Bing seems to know nothing
about it, being fascinated by the event in 2021) is, indeed, that the
State of Texas, having funds that could have been used to fix the
problem, chose instead to shovel it into the pockets of the Oil
Industry. Typical Republican behavior.

The other is that Joe Biden /himself/ (as opposed to some lower-level
burocrat) refused to fork over the money needed to fix the problem so
it's all the Dem's fault.

As can be seen both are rather ... biased.

My comment: if a State as large and populous as Texas (how many seats
does it have in the House?) cannot afford to maintain its own basic
infrastructure but must rely on the Federal Teat, then maybe the
voters should consider electing people who /can/ manage to do whatever
it takes to maintain it.

And, although this may not be the coolest summer from here to 2200,
the maps I saw suggest that it was certainly a scorcher. In most of
the country, anyway.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"