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From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
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Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 15:30:02 -0700
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On 8/31/24 14:17, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On 31/08/2024 07:18, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <vaubfv$srme$2@dont-email.me>,
>> Bobbie Sellers  <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/30/24 18:49, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >> And is pretty hard 
>>> science that there is no way to defend the land
>>> from the rising water. Exactly how fast it will happen is the main
>>> dispute. I live in California where we have earthquakes and
>>
>> The Dutch might dispute that..
> 
> Let's table that point.  On the other hand: Venice.
> 
>> Not sure this one would be for me, sounds a bit too bleak.
>>
>> Trying to think of other SF examples of sea rise, but all that's coming
>> to mind (other than the sinking of Atlantis) right now is the XKCD "Time"
>> sequence.
> 
> John Wyndham, _The Kraken Wakes_ (sea people are angry)
> 
> Stephen Baxter, _Flood_, _Ark_ (similar)
> 
> J. G. Ballard, _The Drowned World_ (1962)
> 
> Richard Jefferies, _After London_ (1885)
> 
> Ken McLeod, _The Cassini Division_, I think contains
> a scene, which certainly is in something, of flying
> above London and observing a line of little points
> sticking just above the water level.  This is the top
> of the Thames Flood Barrier.
> <https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/thames-flood-barrier-woolwich-10386>
> 
> I think the sea had risen in the film of
> _Johnny Mnemonic_.  It definitely had in
> Stephen Spielberg's _A.I._. And on a lesser
> scale in _Evan Almighty_.

The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse by Dale Pendell
Pendell is not satisfied with rising water only but predicts
plagues as well. This goes into the distant future with
barely a hope for civilization of a sort to continue.
Evacuees from Los Angeles head North and in Northern California
once more the Sacramento-San Joaquin valleys are flooded which
result in the Great Bay.  Communities of scholar-mechanics hang
on for a long time as the flood continues taking out San Francisco
eventually and in the long years covering the site with a deep
layer of sedimentation.
	But this only covers the West Coast of North America.
	We have no idea what is going on elsewhere apart from
notable disasters.
	I do not know how long ago I read this as my older files
were lost recently.  I hope to get up to more current reading
in the near future but...

	bliss

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