Re: American War a dystopic novel

On 8/31/24 14:17, 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_.

The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse by Dale Pendell
Pendell is not satisfied with rising water only but predicts
plagues as well. This goes into the distant future with
barely a hope for civilization of a sort to continue.
Evacuees from Los Angeles head North and in Northern California
once more the Sacramento-San Joaquin valleys are flooded which
result in the Great Bay.  Communities of scholar-mechanics hang
on for a long time as the flood continues taking out San Francisco
eventually and in the long years covering the site with a deep
layer of sedimentation.
But this only covers the West Coast of North America.
We have no idea what is going on elsewhere apart from
notable disasters.
I do not know how long ago I read this as my older files
were lost recently.  I hope to get up to more current reading
in the near future but...
bliss
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