Timeline for Novel identification: wind makes Earth's surface uninhabitable
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 12:20 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | ... it's clear that humanity has been given a sharp lesson for our hubris. Russia is stripped of its soil; New York is under hundreds of feet of water piled up as the wind blows westward across the ocean. The novel is not one of Ballard's best, but for some reason I've found it memorable. It would have made a good movie. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 12:15 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | The cause of the wind is given vaguely as a stream of high-energy particles hitting one hemisphere of the Earth over a period of days. As Ballard would no doubt have been aware, the likelihood of this being sustained while the Earth moved along its orbit would be infinitesimal unless it were done purposely by some outside agency, but the characters are too wrapped up in their own problems to give this any thought. Given that the wind immediately begins to flag after the pyramid -- which is evidently the last standing human-built structure on the planet -- falls, ... | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 8:57 | vote | accept | Clara Díaz Sanchez | ||
| Mar 15, 2022 at 21:24 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 15, 2022 at 16:21 | comment | added | Lexible | You can see that same wind-borne Saharan mud accumulate as wet clay in the crooks of branches of trees from cloud forests on Caribbean mountain tops! | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1503747859539181575 | ||
| Mar 15, 2022 at 13:37 | answer | added | Mark Olson | timeline score: 21 | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 13:37 | history | edited | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2022 at 13:21 | history | asked | Clara Díaz Sanchez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |