Dream Factories and Radio Pictures by Howard Waldrop

Author:Howard Waldrop [Waldrop, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Essays & Correspondence, Essays, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Anthologies, short stories, Anthologies & Short Stories, TV; Movie; Video Game Adaptations
Amazon: B004I6EIE6
Publisher: ElectricStory.com, Inc.
Published: 2004-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

SOUNDTRACK THUNDER AND NITRATE LIGHTING!

By Formalhaut J. Amkermackam

Imagine a time when most of the American continent was a vast dry desert from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast!

Imagine when there were no lush farmlands from sea to sea, when coffee, rubber, and tea had to be imported into this country!

Imagine that once men died crossing huge sandy wastes & when the only water for a hundred miles might turn out to be poison, when the Great Utah Lake was so salty it supported no aquatic life!

Imagine when the Midwest was only sparse grasslands, suitable for crops only like wheat & oats, or an economy based on the herding of cattle & sheep!

Imagine a time when rainfall was so scarce the only precipitation was snow on the high mountains in the winter & when that was melted there was no more till next year!

These things were neither a nightmare nor the fevered dreams of some fantasy writer—this was the American West—where our forefathers actually tried to make a living—less than one hundred years ago!

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