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A dry line (also called a dew point line, or Marfa front, after Marfa, Texas) [1] is a line across a continent that separates moist air and dry air. One of the most prominent examples of such a separation occurs in central North America , especially Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, where the moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets dry air from the ...
"The Cold Equations" is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science Fiction Hall of ...
Galaxy Science Fiction: 1955 Dune short stories: Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson: The Road to Dune: 2005 E for Effort: T. L. Sherred: Analog Science Fiction: 1947 Earthlight (short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Thrilling Wonder Stories: 1951 Eight Episodes: Robert Reed: Asimov's Science Fiction: 2006 Elemental (story) Geoffrey A ...
There's the science of Santa Ana winds and then the mythology as these winds weave in and out of Southern California memory. "There was a desert wind blowing that night.
The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume One (2024) edited by Bill Gillard, a short story collection that makes the argument that the literature of climate change started much earlier than the critical consensus would have it, as early as the 1870s when the effects of industrialization were being explored by science-fiction writers ...
Termination Shock is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2021.The book is set in a near-future when climate change has significantly altered human society and follows the attempts of a solar geoengineering scheme.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Aerial view of Belvedere Castle and Turtle Pond in nuzzled in the fall foilage in Central Park. (Photo credit: Getty Images) The Big Apple is going through a historic stretch of bone-dry weather.