The Water Knife
- Published2015
- Read in 2022
- Genre Sci-fi/fantasy
Synopsis
In Phoenix Arizona, a man get killed and somehow it moves around a lot of people.
This in the USA where water has become a scarce resource. Not so scarce as everybody struggles to find water, but enough so that everybody knows it's a limited resource and that it means power.
We follow a journalist, a "water knife" - a professional killer working for a big water criminal organisation, and a poor orphan girl. They all kinda know the system and yet working for it and against it to make themselves a place.
This in the USA where water has become a scarce resource. Not so scarce as everybody struggles to find water, but enough so that everybody knows it's a limited resource and that it means power.
We follow a journalist, a "water knife" - a professional killer working for a big water criminal organisation, and a poor orphan girl. They all kinda know the system and yet working for it and against it to make themselves a place.
My take
It's a really good problematic. There is a book constantly mentionned, Cadillac desert, which is from the 80s about water issues -- I'm curious about wither it's worth reading as well. I like how Bacigalupi always has many characters that are neither total allies nor total enemies.