2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's
Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a
coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station
sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space.
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
On 2024-11-18, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's
Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a
coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station
sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space.
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
I read the Mieville (quite good) and the Bacigalupi, which is a
Favorite! Different strokes for different folks (I regard it as
excellent magic realism and James regards it as bad hard sf - both
are at least somewhat true, IMO).
Nothing shorter once again.
Chris
In article <lq13cmFou0iU1@mid.individual.net>,=20
Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
On 2024-11-18, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's
Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a=20
coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station=
sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space.=20
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher=20
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
I read the Mieville (quite good) and the Bacigalupi, which is a
Favorite! Different strokes for different folks (I regard it as
excellent magic realism and James regards it as bad hard sf - both
are at least somewhat true, IMO).
Nothing shorter once again.
Chris
Bad, racist, and sexist SF.=20
2010! Travellers learn how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajokull", Britain's
Liberal Democrats secure their position in history by forming a
coalition with the Conservatives, and the International Space Station
sets a record for the longest continuous human occupation of space.
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
Titus G wrote:
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
William Hyde
Titus G wrote:
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
On 11/19/2024 11:18 AM, William Hyde wrote:
Titus G wrote:Much of Texas already is a desert.
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
On 11/20/2024 9:49 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 11/19/2024 11:18 AM, William Hyde wrote:
Titus G wrote:Much of Texas already is a desert.
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
Yup.ÿ Everything west of I-35.
The Houston metropolitan area gets 60 to 65 inches of rain a year.ÿ 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.ÿ They get 10 to 15 inches of rain a year.
Lynn
Titus G wrote:
On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
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
I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
Admittedly I haven't been to Fort Worth much or in a long time but I=20desert.
don't remember it being desert.
According to this Nations Online Project map I'd say maybe 20% is =
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/texas_map.htm
Scroll down a bit.
On 20/11/24 08:18, William Hyde wrote:
The following is perhaps the only relevant quotation to your question. "Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas had thrown on the garments of fertility for a century,
pretending to greenery and growth as they mined glacial water from ten-thousand-year-old aquifers.
pretended it could last forever. They’d pumped up the Ice Age and spread it across the land, and for a while they’d turned their dry lands lush. Cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans—vast green acreages, all because someone could get a pump going. Those places had dreamed of being different from what they were. They’d had aspirations. And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that their prosperity was borrowed,
and there would be no more coming."
In article <djpujjdnqd49tccbhl16gerrlcm17ib167@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:44 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
<is Texas a desert?>
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.
I clicked on it.
I was greeted with all sorts of ... stuff.
And more stuff I had to ignore when I tried to leave.
Well, one thing can be said for it: it's persistant.
Hopefully, my Full Virus Scan tomorrow won't find any surprises.
The land-form list seems to feature a lot of dry parts, some actually
containing areas with "desert" in their name.
But, IIRC, East Texas may be soggier than the rest of the State.
Something about "piney woods thinning out as you move West onto the
plains".
Of course, if we define, say, any County with less that a given
population density as "desert" (using an older sense where the focus
was on a lack of people living there and not on sand and heat), there
would (I suppose) be a /lot/ of deserts.
--
By that standard, Alaska is a desert, but Baked Alaska is a dessert!
On 11/21/2024 9:20 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
In article <djpujjdnqd49tccbhl16gerrlcm17ib167@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:44 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"=20
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
<is Texas a desert?>
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.
I clicked on it.
I was greeted with all sorts of ... stuff.
And more stuff I had to ignore when I tried to leave.
Well, one thing can be said for it: it's persistant.
Hopefully, my Full Virus Scan tomorrow won't find any surprises.
The land-form list seems to feature a lot of dry parts, some actually
containing areas with "desert" in their name.
But, IIRC, East Texas may be soggier than the rest of the State.
Something about "piney woods thinning out as you move West onto the
plains".
Of course, if we define, say, any County with less that a given
population density as "desert" (using an older sense where the focus
was on a lack of people living there and not on sand and heat), there
would (I suppose) be a /lot/ of deserts.
--=20
By that standard, Alaska is a desert, but Baked Alaska is a dessert!
Antarctica is mostly desert. Serious, its based on average annual=20 >precipitation.
On 20/11/24 08:18, William Hyde wrote:
Titus G wrote:
"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.
I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn
into a desert?
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:44 -0600, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
<is Texas a desert?>
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.
I clicked on it.
I was greeted with all sorts of ... stuff.
And more stuff I had to ignore when I tried to leave.
Well, one thing can be said for it: it's persistant.
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