Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: American War a dystopic novel Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:52:43 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 31 Message-ID: Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:52:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="874849ab057514a66b488fa679816b9d"; logging-data="395162"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18RpS90gai+Od9Vv8YnEsDW" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9P+BIfBzjU9UXco+ELKgDCo/S5w= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2285 I read this in May of 2017 "American War"- set in a future of Global Warming and post American Civil War II. No Florida and the Southern Coast is depleted. The Big Bay* is in Central California. I.e. the Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley are flooded. Only the high points of the San Francisco Bay Area remain above water. A Free Southern State exists with a quarantine zone in South Carolina. Florida is gone. New Orleans is gone. A Mexican Protectorate extends past San Francisco and takes up the Southern-Most tier of Western states. The narrator of the tale of the female protagonist lives in New Anchorage, Alaska where they might see frost on the windows in January, but it never snows. Alaska is a Neutral State ` The author is one Omar El Akkad. The ACW II takes place from 2074-2095 caused by the Southern states unwillingness to abide by the ban on Fossil Fuels finally enacted. Florida is gone. A girl's father is murdered and a thirst for revenge grows within her as the War goes on. Horrendous acts are done on each side and the protagonist does the final horrendous act of the War, which kills the last of her relatives but not intentionally. It could be sub-titled Fall of the American Empire! bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com