[Revi]

I have just started to read this amazing book, American War. It starts in the year 2075, when most coastal cities have been flooded and the government decides to ban fossil fuels. The south rebels, and there is a new civil war. The main character, Sarat is forced to deal with the consequences.

This book has it all. Please no spoilers, because I'm not done yet.

Here's an interview with the author, click on the show on the top left.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/02/522194002 ... of-revenge

[Subjectivist]

Yikes, just looked it up, 14 bucks for the kindle price of a first time author? I would need a lot of honest reviews before plunking down that much! I hardly buy authors I know well for that much money, let alone a first time author.

[Plantagenet]

I have just started to read this amazing book, American War. It starts in the year 2075, when most coastal cities have been flooded and the government decides to ban fossil fuels. The south rebels, and there is a new civil war.

Sounds great. But why would it be the south that rebels?

Wouldn't energy producing states like Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Texas, North Dakota, Alaska etc. want to continue using fossil fuels, while energy consuming states and states hit hard by coastal flooding would want to ban fossil fuels?

Sounds like mindless anti-south prejudice to have the south rebel again and make them the villains, when FF use isn't really a southern issue and most southern states aren't really big FF producers.

Cheers!

[Peaku22]

will add that to my reading list

[Revi]

The south really isn't the villain in this book. So far they are the only ones we have gotten to know. It's really a novel about the consequences of war, human nature and climate change. It isn't preachy at all. It's just a really good story so far. They are in a refugee camp on the border between the north and the "MAG", which is what they call Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

There has already been a battle for the Texas oil fields, and the North won it. I am not giving any spoilers, since they mention this in the first few pages of the book.

The main character is a young girl, Sarat, who is learning how to navigate in a world that's falling apart.

I got it yesterday and have read almost half of it. Well worth checking it out!

[Revi]

Yikes, just looked it up, 14 bucks for the kindle price of a first time author? I would need a lot of honest reviews before plunking down that much! I hardly buy authors I know well for that much money, let alone a first time author.

I know, I had to think about it at first, then I bought it and I would say it's worth it.

It costs around $17 for it in hardback, but then you can pass it around.

https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Oma ... 0451493583

[Revi]

Here's an excerpt:

It's from the beginning of the book, so it won't be a spoiler.

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/5222308 ... ar#excerpt

[Revi]

I just finished it. It was a great book. Not a cheerful one, but it really creates a world that is believable. Well worth the read!

[Outcast_Searcher]

I have just started to read this amazing book, American War. It starts in the year 2075, when most coastal cities have been flooded and the government decides to ban fossil fuels.

Well, that part sounds about right. Cart before the horse and all that.

[KingM]

If you want some interesting post-apocalypse stuff for a long cheaper (I think the Kindle books are about five bucks), check out The Righteous series. It's about a polygamist community in the Southwest, and gradually works to a collapse situation from what at first seems like a murder mystery. Kind of different, but it looks at what it would look like if everything fell apart. The author is obviously Peak Oil/Depletion aware.

[Peaku22]

If you want some interesting post-apocalypse stuff for a long cheaper (I think the Kindle books are about five bucks), check out The Righteous series. It's about a polygamist community in the Southwest, and gradually works to a collapse situation from what at first seems like a murder mystery. Kind of different, but it looks at what it would look like if everything fell apart. The author is obviously Peak Oil/Depletion aware.

That's what interest me to read it. Still haven't started though

[ROCKMAN]

Revi - "There has already been a battle for the Texas oil fields, and the North won it." I thought you said this was fiction. Texas lost its oil fields? Obviously a fantasy tale. LOL.