Ozark Trilogy 3: And Then There'll Be Fireworks
“For one thing, the rest of the continent would have led you to believe there could be no desert there; Marktwain was lush green farming land, surpassed only by the emerald richness of Mizzurah, all the way to its coasts in all directions. That you could go through the pass between Troublesome’s mountain and the others in its chain (not really much more than high hills, but the Ozark Mountains of Old Earth had not been towering peaks, either, and there was thus a precedent for it), and suddenly ...find yourself heading smack into a real desert—that was always a surprise.
It wasn’t large, and was called simply “The Desert”; if you’ve only one, there’s no special need to name it. The technology and the knowledge necessary to bind its sands with plant life and turn it green as the rest of the continent had been part of the Ozarkers’ equipment even at First Landing. When Marktwain’s population passed sixty thousand, the two Kingdoms of Brightwater and McDaniels all parceled out in towns and farms, the idea of keeping a desert for its unique character ceased to be anything but romanticism.MoreLess
It wasn’t large, and was called simply “The Desert”; if you’ve only one, there’s no special need to name it. The technology and the knowledge necessary to bind its sands with plant life and turn it green as the rest of the continent had been part of the Ozarkers’ equipment even at First Landing. When Marktwain’s population passed sixty thousand, the two Kingdoms of Brightwater and McDaniels all parceled out in towns and farms, the idea of keeping a desert for its unique character ceased to be anything but romanticism.MoreLess
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