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Subject: Re: Nebula finalists 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:49:27 -0800
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On 11/19/2024 11:18 AM, 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?
> 
Much of Texas already is a desert.

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