Re: Nebula finalists 2010

On 11/20/2024 2:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 11/20/2024 9:49 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 11/19/2024 11:18 AM, William Hyde wrote:

Titus G wrote:

On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
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Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
The City & The City by China Mieville
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
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I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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Both the Bacigalupi and the Mieville novels were a solid four stars for me.
Bacigalupi's "Ship Breaker" was less than mediocre and I just discovered
that I have "The Water Knife" so began reading it today. So far it is a
dark but a brilliant corrupt dystopia of a future of dust storms and
water shortage where Nevada controls the water from the Colorado and
Arizona is turning into a deserted desert like Texas already is.

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I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn into a desert?
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Much of Texas already is a desert.

 Yup.  Everything west of I-35.
 The Houston metropolitan area gets 60 to 65 inches of rain a year.  Or in the case of Hurricane Harvey, 65 inches of rain in 4 days.
 My parents live in Lavaca County (Port Lavaca), 110 miles from my house in Fort Bend County outside Houston.  They get 10 to 15 inches of rain a year.
 Lynn
 

Admittedly I haven't been to Fort Worth much or in a long time but I don't remember it being desert.
According to this Nations Online Project map I'd say maybe 20% is desert.
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/texas_map.htm
Scroll down a bit.