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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:17:34 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v7987i$2088o$1@dont-email.me>,
William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
>> <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
>>> Nicoll) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
>>>>
>>>> Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
>>>> frosty SF and fantasy novels!
>>>>
>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/
>>>
>>> I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
>>> about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
>>> political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
>>> effective response to global warming...
>>>
>>> if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
>>> "fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.
>> 
>> One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
>> died again (if that actually happened;
>
>
>According to news stories I have seen, some parts of Texas are not 
>scheduled to regain power until July 19.
>
>When I lived in College Station, TX, I experienced more power outages 
>per unit time than I have anywhere else (the situation here is 
>deteriorating, though) but it was never gone for more than a few hours.
>
I never particularly thought about it before but when I lived in the 
back of beyond in Brazil, in a town whose roads were impassable red
clay during the rainy season, we never lost power. Not even during 
the tropical storm that dumped thousands of dead penguins on the 
beach. 

In Ontario, otoh, short blackouts aren't unknown. But at least there
buck a beer beer. 
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