'toxic beaches' in the Sci/Fi novel world and reality

[ensho]

about 20 ish yrs. ago I read a Sci/Fi that took place in the future. all sand beaches were marked as toxic and to be avoided.

can't remember the name of the book or writer except that the writer was a woman.

point being - that sandy beaches seem to be depositories for whatever the water wants to throw up.

around the gulf its throwing up oil,etc. and the beaches will store it (except whatever gets cleaned off the top of the sand)


so now, 20 some years later a Sci/Fi novel comes true.

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[hedgehog]

1. This may or may not be what you're thinking of - but it's worth trackig down -

Floating Worlds - Cecelia Holland

Floating Worlds (1975) -- Anarchist Paula Mendoza climbs from unemployed obscurity to become a diplomat trying to keep the peace (with startling and unconventional methods) between Earth, the Mars colonists, and the mutant Styths from the outer planets of the solar system. This novel is notable for its sexual content, its feminist theme, and its literary quality—all comparable to the mid-70s work of Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecelia_Holland

[ensho]

2. no, not Floating Worlds - I dig Russ and Le Guin too

haven't they already marked some of the beaches as off limits?

[happy_liberal]

3. my kids are reading Alex Rider to us

It was discussing a plan to drop a bomb down deepwater drilling well to start an earthquake that would take the attention away from other evil issues they had going on.

These novels about the CIA and MI5 are very revealing. My husband and I keep LOL because they describe tactics that we have been seeing and evil ideas that one might have never considered. Very eye opening....I'm sure it's just fiction though...