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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780345380388 ISBN: 034538038X Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: February 22, 1993 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: February 22, 1993 Studio: Del Rey Editorial Review: Product Description: With crops failing, refugee camps filling, and riots raging, Carter Voltaire, a Corps officer in charge of rationing what little water is left in the Columbia River-bed Pipeline, must stop a group of desperate farmers from sabotaging the Pipe. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - -Rosenblum brings scifi to the northwest, and does it with a very real overtone. Written at a time when the area was begninning to find that water was limited even there, Rosenblum brings us a possible future where water controls all our lives from its scarcity. Rating:  - A bleak and all-too possible vision of the futureI'm sorry to see this novel is out of print, it was very good. One might mention that Before she wrote this novel, Mary Rosenblum wrote several short stories about "The Drylands". The thing that makes this novel stand out is that it's much more realistic and low-key than most science fiction novels, and the near future it portrays is all too beliavable. The only actual fantastical element comes from the inclusion of "mutants" with special talents that have begun to develop as a result ... Read More |
