On 2024-10-08, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

OK, I have heard it all now. Apparently the USA government has a storm enhancer machine using lasers and has used it to accelerate hurricanes

Early in the Mark Brandis series of German SF juveniles, the Western
bloc ("European American African Union") is taken over by a dictator
with black-uniformed enforcers *cough*, who then wants to go to war
against the Eastern bloc ("United Oriental Republics", i.e., China)
by unleashing an artificial megastorm as a superweapon. Our plucky
heroes are forced into an underground resistance that needs to
destroy the storm factory in a daring raid to prevent all-out war,
before they can overthrow the mad dictator.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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[email protected] (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

In article <[email protected]>,
Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2024-10-08, Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:

OK, I have heard it all now. Apparently the USA government has a storm
enhancer machine using lasers and has used it to accelerate hurricanes

Early in the Mark Brandis series of German SF juveniles, the Western
bloc ("European American African Union") is taken over by a dictator
with black-uniformed enforcers *cough*, who then wants to go to war
against the Eastern bloc ("United Oriental Republics", i.e., China)
by unleashing an artificial megastorm as a superweapon. Our plucky
heroes are forced into an underground resistance that needs to
destroy the storm factory in a daring raid to prevent all-out war,
before they can overthrow the mad dictator.

Has anyone checked Titan?

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72339/pg72339-images.html

The link points to a Ben Bova story in "Amazing" called "The Towers of
Titan" that I read as a fix-up novel called "As on a Darkling
Plain". Apparently not one of Bova's best works, but I enjoyed it.
-Don-

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