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Title	:	The Water Knife
Author	:	Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 371 pages
Published	:	May 26th 2015 by Knopf
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Thriller

The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi

Hardcover | Pages: 371 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 19787 Users | 2899 Reviews

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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 more 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. 

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Original Title:	The Water Knife
ISBN:	0385352875 (ISBN13: 9780385352871)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Angel Velasquez, Maria Villarosa, Lucy Monroe, Julio, Toomie, James (Jamie) Sanderson, Anna (Paolo Bacigalupi), Sarah
Setting:	Phoenix, Arizona(United States)
Literary Awards:	John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2015), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Novel (2016)

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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 be more expensive than gasoline. Water is going to be more precious 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

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

Collapse porn.Paolo Bacigalupi, the WAY cool author of The Windup Girl delivers in his 2015 novel another near future post-apocalyptic tale of Malthusian scarcity and peoples tenacious ability to keep on keeping on.Set in the American southwest, we find a world where water and water rights have taken the front seat to narcotics and any other vice and is now the coin of power. Rival states like Arizona, Texas, California and Nevada vie for senior riparian rights and the players of the game use

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,

Amazing, thrilling and carrying a great vocabulary, The Water Knife is both original and full of imagination.

Friend-Read with Nenia Campbell! Woot woot! Her review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...So. 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

DNF - 30%. Buddy read with carol., who managed to actually finish it.I'm finding this book extraordinarily unpleasant. Not unrealistic. Not poorly written. Just viscerally, creatively offputting. I considered putting it down after a scene in which massive piles of bodies have been discovered, but the emphasis is on the photographer, intent on getting the photos that will get the most clicks. I put it down for good a few pages later, when the body of someone who has been tortured in strikingly