The Water Knife

In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, leg breaker, assassin, and spy A Las Vegas water knife, Angel cuts water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her luxurious developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get dust When rumors of a game changing water source surface in drought ravaged Phoenix, it seems California is making a play to monopolize the life giving flow of the river, and Angel is sent to investigate There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a drought hardened journalist, and Maria Villarosa, a young refugee who survives by her wits in a city that despises everything she represents For Angel, Lucy, and Maria, time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other s hands But when water is valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. New Download [ The Water Knife ] by [ Paolo Bacigalupi ] – kino-fada.fr As with Brave New World, I think I m inviting insults to my intelligence by saying this, but sometimes Mr Bacigalupi is just a little too heavy for me.I really like and appreciate what the author tries to do, both the strength of his writing and his focus on the dystopian but not unrealistic futures that could occur due to climate change I enjoyed The Windup Girl and I especially loved The Drowned Cities The latter was such a powerful and horrifying book about the effects of war, particularly As with Brave New World, I think I m inviting insults to my intelligence by saying this, but sometimes Mr Bacigalupi is just a little too heavy for me.I really like and appreciate what the author tr...Adult science fictionBacigalupi is the master of ecological dystopian novels He describes the world after climate meltdown in frighteningly believable detail I loved his novel of a drowned Bangkok, The Windup Girl, and his two young adult novels set in the wastelands of the former U.S Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities The Water Knife is set closer to our own time The United States still exists, but it is frayed and crumbling The Western states are competing for scarce water supplies, Adult science fictionBacigalupi is the master of ecological dystopian novels He describes the world after climate meltdown in frighteningly believable detail I loved his novel ...If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely f ked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around Massive Dust storms from abandoned farmland add to the misery of those left alive.Water is going to beexpensive than gasoline Water is going to beprecious than gold Water is going to be fought over Some people had to bleed so other people could drink Simple as that The world in the future is going to If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely f ked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around Massive Dust storms from abandoned farmland add to the misery of those left alive.Water is going to beexpensive than gasoline Water is going to beprecious than gold Water is going to be fought over Some people had to bleed so other people could drink Simple as that The world in the future is going to...Friend Read with Nenia Campbell Woot woot Her review is here I hated Paolo Bacigalupi s The Windup Girl HATED IT.Why would you pick up another book by him One I like Nenia Campbell and she suggested a friend read.Two I like giving authors second chances.Here goes If you love reading about rape, torture, murder, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, have I got an author for you Paolo Bacigalupi loves those things as well and always makes sure t Friend Read with Nenia Campbell Woot woot Her review is here I hated Paolo Bacigalupi s The Windup Girl HATED IT.Why would you pick up another book by him One I like Nenia Campbell and she suggested a friend read.Two I like giving authors second chances.Here goes If you love reading about rape, torture, murder, sexual slavery and forced prostitution, have I got an author for you Paolo Bacigalupi loves those things as well and always makes sure to put as many of these aspects as he can in his novels I, however, am not a fan of reading about these things If I want to read about wo...I ve spent a grand portion of my life living in the desert so I ve always been aware of water issues, but honestly, this novel freaked me out with just how bad things have gotten in this near future SF I mean, this is really all about the fate of whole cities and the struggle for every single person to survive the collapse when there just isn t enough to drink I kept reaching for my water every few seconds just to make sure that I was okay.Truly This is really good for what it is Thriller, d I ve spent a grand portion of my life living in t...Bacigalupi is On Point with this new thriller This is the first book I ve read this year that kept me compulsively turning the pages till way after my bedtime cause I absolutely needed to find out what was going to happen.It s a near future sci fi dystopia however, I have to say that every time I updated my partner as to what I was reading about, he kept saying, Umm, that s not science fiction, that s NOW Well, the situation in the book is a little worse than now but it s the directi Bacigalupi is On Point with this new thriller This is the first book I ve read this year that kept me compulsively turning the pages till way after my bedtime cause I absolutely needed to find out what was going to happen.It s a near future sci fi dystopia however, I have to say that every time I updated my partner as to what I was reading about, he kept saying, Umm, that s not science fiction, that s NOW Well, the situation in the book is a little worse than now but it s the direction we re headed Due...I got to the morgue scene around page 120, in case there are several and this was only the first and I m stopping because I ve fucking had enough And here s why Jamie s executioners had carved a story into his ruined flesh, and in the chill of the morguehis torture stood out, intimate and nasty Really Tell mej k, don t Really, please don t Christine pointed with a rubber gloved hand Electrical burns on the genitals Adrenaline injected into the body Sings of trauma at th I got to the morgue scene around page 120, in case there are several and this was only the first and I m stopping because I ve fucking had enough And here s why Jamie s executioners had carved a story into his ruined flesh, and in the chill of the morguehis torture stood out, intimate and nasty Really Tell mej k, don t Really, please don t Christine pointed with a rubber gloved hand Electrical burns on the genitals Adrenaline injected into the body Sings of trauma at the anus Rape with blunt object Probably a club of some kind Je...Some people had to bleed so other people could drink Simple as that The water knife is a pretty torrential but enjoyable take on the apocalypse, there s no virus, no nuclear fallout, it s much easier to imagine than that It s all about Water The good old USA is suffering from a distinct lack of rain, so much so that the southern states, Texas and New Mexico are all but abandoned, the Texans are struggling to survive along with the other unfortunates of society Unless you ve got the funds, Some people had to ble...This was my first book by Paolo Bacigalupi I requested it by choice carefully I had a hunch it might be a challenge for me yet wanted to stretch my brain Living in California with a clear memory of my first experience of a serious drought in the 70 s when I was living in Berkeley, Calif not flushing our toilets after each use wasn t pleasant for me as a young maiden in any shape of form Plant stores closing was sad Letting go of my plants was sad My little world coming out o This was my first book by Paolo Bacigalupi I requested it by choice carefully I had a hunch it might be a challenge for me yet wanted to stretch my brain Living in California with a clear memory of my first experience of a serious drought in the 70 s when I was living in Berkeley, Calif not flushing our toilets after each use wasn t pleasant for me as a young maiden in any shape of form Plant stores closing was sad Letting go of my plants was sad My little world coming out of High School just starting college was already a big adjustment.Now our water supply was scarce.and I needed to man up So..The plot premise of Water Knife was appealing to me ...4.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum this day and age where one can t even walk into a bookstore s sci fi section without a few dozen dystopian titles getting thrown in your face, I have to say Paolo Bacigalupi s The Water Knife really impacted me in a big way It put me in mind of an eccentric high school teacher I once had, who was a little obsessed with doomsday scenarios He used to be fond of saying that if the civilizations were to crumble or if th 4.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum this day and age where one can t even walk into a bookstore s sci fi section without a few dozen dystopian titles getting thrown in your face, I have to say Paolo Bacigalupi s The Water Knife really impacted me in a big way It put me in mind of an eccentric high school teacher I once had, who was a little obsessed with doomsday scenarios He used to be fond of saying that if the civilizations were to crumble or if the whole world were to go to war, it wouldn t be over things like a pandemic or nuclear war No, it would be for water fresh, drinkable water without which none of us can survive.Indeed, Bacigalupi paints a rather bleak, hellish picture of a place where water is scarce andvaluable than gold, a resource for which people are willing to kill and destroy Drought has ravaged the American Southwest, changing the physical and political landscape States like Nevada and Arizona clash viciously over shares of the Colorado River while bigwig California looks on, and states lik...

• English
• 06 February 2017
Paolo Bacigalupi
• Hardcover
• 371 pages
• 0385352875
• Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Water Knife