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HPPR Radio Readers Book Club

  • Ryman, one of the authors of the Mundane Science Fiction Manifesto and his collaborators believed that much of science fiction was too escapist and they thought that setting their stories in a world closer to our own would give the narratives more political and social power. This is their depiction of life on Mars.
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    Mundane Science Fiction
    Jarrett Kaufman
    I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.The book in review is Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s The Water Thief. The novel was published in 2012 and was awarded the Clarion Foreword Science Fiction Book of the Year and the Kirkus Star.
  • The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter, 2012
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    Book Leader Jarrett Kaufman Discusses "The Water Thief"
    Jarrett Kaufman
    It’s the future and both air and water cost. Step out of line and you’re tossed into the lye vats. When Charles Thatcher finds a woman stealing rainwater, he sees opportunity to move up, to become an executive.
  • Haskell County, Kansas. Virtually every farm in the county is primarily dependent upon wheat, although a number of farmers plant sorghums and small grains for feed and sale, raise feeders or sheep, keep large flocks of hens and try in other ways to make part ot their income independent of the wheat crop. At this particular time the wheat was coming up well, and there had been sufficient rain. Prospects for making a crop were good, but in this country good prospects don't mean much. This picture shows one of the two irrigation wells in operation. This one can flood thirty or forty acres of land. Wells like these are very expensive, and while they practically guarantee a crop of sorghums on the land they serve, they cannot be used on the wheat land itself. No well could possibly irrigate a tenth of the wheat land that a farmer would need to make a living.
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    Running Out Surprised Me
    Matt Kliewer
    Two years ago, in what now looks to be a great feat of prescience, my wife recommended I read a new book that was abuzz in the Social Sciences, Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. At the time, I think I met the recommendation with a fair amount of skepticism.
  • Water Drop
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    More Questions Than Answers
    Shane Timson
    For High Plains Public Radio Radio Readers Book Club I’m Shane from Colby, Kansas.We are discussing Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. This is not a good thing to think about -- running out of water...
  • The sparsely populated Gran Chaco plain in South America is home to a dry forest of thorny trees, shrubs, and grasses. More than 20 percent of Gran Chaco’s forest has been converted into farmland or grazing land since 1985.
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    "The Farther You Go" by Mike Strong
    Mike Strong
    This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running Out” by Lucas Bessire.The farther you go from home, the more you meet the place you came from. When you return to that place the more you see every place.
  • Crossing the Arkansas River at Dodge City, Kansas between 1900 - 1919
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    The Dry Ark and Lost History
    Hannes Zacharias
    I'm Hannes Zacharias, former resident of Dodge City, speaking for High Plains public radio, radio readers book club. The book is Running Out by Lucas Bessire, published in 2021.
  • Average 2014 – 2016 Depth to Water, Kansas High Plains Aquifer
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    Depletion is not Fiction
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Bytes for Spring 2024. Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains is surely one of the most frightening books I’ve read in recent days, which unfortunately is not fiction.
  • Fern was a volatile, unpredictable force who had what was then known as a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized for depression. Women on the plains in the dirty 30s were tested to their limits and such occurrences happened in many families. This depiction of the Women’s Corridor in what was called an insane asylum in the 1930s reminds readers of the slow progress made in the mental health field.
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    Changes In Mental Health Treatment Slow To Come
    Linda Allen
    This is Linda Allen in Amarillo, Tx reading and writing about Lucas Bessire’s 2021 book “Running Out - In Search of Water on the High Plains”. Bessire’s treatise on the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer was a finalist for the National Book Award and named Book of the Year in 2022 by the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A & M University.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 18th Century
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    What Running Out Means To Me
    Holly Mercer
    Hi, I am Holly Mercer, Library Director at Dodge City Community College. The title of the book, Running Out - in Search of Water on the High Plains, implies the focus of the book will be on water. However, this book highlights the interconnectedness of the world.
  • Clear Creek with buildings
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    "And What of Clear Creek?" by Mike Strong
    Mike Strong
    This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Running Out” by Lucas Bessire. Anthropologist Lucas Bessire returned home to south and west of Garden City, Kansas, having studied destruction of habitat and its effects on the population in Paraguay.
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