The Water Knife

Name: The Water Knife
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi

by Paolo Bacigalupi

Water wars rage in the American Southwest where corporations control survival

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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is an American science fiction author known for his bleakly prescient climate fiction. The Windup Girl won the Hugo and Nebula Awards and depicts a climate-ravaged future Southeast Asia with extraordinary detail. The Water Knife is equally compelling as a near-future thriller about water wars in the American Southwest.

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The Drowned CitiesWar and survival in a climate-ravaged world where children become soldiers
Pump Six and Other StoriesShort stories exploring near-future worlds of genetic engineering and climate collapse