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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2010
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:24:25 -0800
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On 11/19/24 11:18, William Hyde wrote:
> Titus G wrote:
>> On 19/11/24 03:42, James Nicoll wrote:
>>
>>> Which 2010 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
>>>
>>> The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
>>> Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
>>> Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
>>> Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
>>> The City & The City by China Mieville
>>> The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
>>>
>>> I read the Bacigalupi (which I hated and which kept its publisher
>>> afloat for years), the Priest and the Mieville
>>>
>>
>> Both the Bacigalupi and the Mieville novels were a solid four stars 
>> for me.
>> Bacigalupi's "Ship Breaker" was less than mediocre and I just discovered
>> that I have "The Water Knife" so began reading it today. So far it is a
>> dark but a brilliant corrupt dystopia of a future of dust storms and
>> water shortage where Nevada controls the water from the Colorado and
>> Arizona is turning into a deserted desert like Texas already is.
> 
> 
> I'm not likely to read the book any time soon so, how does Texas turn 
> into a desert?
> 
> William Hyde
> 
	Texas becomes a desert through ongoing floods and droughts. Plus
restrictive medical policies drove a lot of people out of the state
before it became a desert. Basically the Climate Denialists won and the
Global Warming went on and on with less and less predictable weather.

	When the ground beneath your feet is washed away how long will
you stay?

	bliss