However, I did have some trouble with the narrator, whose work was serviceable, but who changed her pronunciation of a word I’d never heard before - cholobi - back and forth from cho-LO-bee, to CHOLO-bee. It took me a while to become immersed in the story, but I suspect that had something to do with an unexpected reading slump. And in the end, we’re left wondering if anyone is going to win this game. Or kill.Īngel gets involved in a scheme to sell senior water rights to the highest bidder, a scheme that gets him shot saving a journalist from a pair of sadistic thugs who want the rights for themselves. Angel is the water knife of the title, a man who goes to communities to cut off their water when it no longer belongs to them, turning them into ghost towns, creating waves of refugees which other states turn away at gunpoint. The Water Knife tells the story of the American west in a not-so-distant future when water has become increasingly scarce and water rights are worth billions of dollars in the private market. For me they’re right on the thin edge of horror fic, with scenarios wrought from human greed and lack of foresight. I find his bleak visions of the future all too plausible. Paolo Bacigalupi is rapidly becoming one of my favorite dystopian authors.
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