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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:57:24 -0700
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On 8/30/24 11:30, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 8/29/2024 11:52 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Tallahassee, Florida (the panhandle) is 203 feet above sea level.  Is 
> that underwater ?
> 
> Lynn
> 
	Maybe an island or washed away or the underlying geological have
collapsed. but the Florida peninsula is gone on the map.
	
	bliss

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