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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:54:12 +0100
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On 31/08/2024 00:03, William Hyde wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> Maximum elevation 266, minimum 7, average 118.
> 
> I believe we discussed  this some time ago.  Even if all the ice sheets 
> go, together with the geoid's adjustment to the lack of  the Antarctic 
> ice sheet's gravity, a fragment of Florida would still exist.  Looks 
> like Tallahassee would survive as a couple of small islands. Which seems 
> to be what the novel says.
> 
> Such melting will not occur by 2075, but we allow far greater 
> distortions of science for a good story.
> 
> Akkad is not principally an SF writer.

Warm water rises.