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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 1982
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 01:04:23 -0000 (UTC)
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ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <v1moob$1r23n$1@dont-email.me>,
> Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 May 2024 00:51:05 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 8 May 2024 13:06:36 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I agree with the May (and the other two). The May is one of the rare
>>>>> cases where my opinion of the first book of a series went down as I
>>>>> read more of the series.  There are plenty of series where my opinion
>>>>> of the series goes down after I read more, but not many where the
>>>>> opinion of the first book itself goes down.
>>>> 
>>>> I thought the first of the May books was the weakest of the series and
>>>> that they improved as she went on.
>>>> 
>>>> For me one of the best scenes was the creation of the Mediterranian
>>>> sea following the breaking of the rock formation of which Gibraltar
>>>> was part (and the only surviving portion of the rock face) - which one
>>>> of the main characters of the book played a critical part.
>>> 
>>> I've encountered that theory before. Also applied to the Red Sea with
>>> the Bab al-Mandab the result of the breach.
>>> 
>>> Both, IIRC, were claimed to be what produced all those flood legends. 
>> 
>> The drying of both, and the subsequent flooding, aren't theories; they're
>> well established, with lots of evidence.  Othboth occurred a few
>> million years ago, before modern humans evolved.
>> 
>> However, the Black Sea partially dried up during the Ice Ages, and flooded
>> again when the Mediterranean rose enough to enter through the Bosporus.
>> Various dates have been proposed, including around 5600 BC. That has been 
>> proposed  as the source of Flood legends.
>> 
>> Pt
> 
> As I recall Randall Garret (mostly his wife due to his declining health)
> had a series with pre-human cat-people in a pre-deluge Mediterranian basin.
> Also, there is a Hugo winning XKCD sequence set in a future dry Med basin.

Also Turtledove 'Down in the Bottomlands'.

Pt