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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. good companion read for Cadillac Desert ( ) The Water Knife is an interesting book. In part because many of the horrific events that occur because of the mega drought in the story don't seem that far fetched. This book is rooted firmly in the pit of reality. The reality that humanity can prove that it sucks in so many vastly different ways that nothing surprises you. This is not a joyous book. There is no sudden uplifting of humanity. Nobody surprised me. I had little doubt believing that politicians would find a way to make a bad situation worse. No real heroes and lots of shades of grey. Don't read this book if you are feeling depressed. I guarantee it will make it worse. With that out of the way. Let me add the good news. It is a good book. Well written and thought out. A relentless plot that is constantly kicking you in the face. When you are done reading it you will feel a little drained and then immediately want everyone who is ignoring California's current drought to read it. I had a few parts of the book that I thought were a little unnecessary to the story. Honestly, the sex scenes felt a little out of place. They kind of zapped me out of a book I was really interested in. I have nothing against sex in books. It just didn't do it for me in this story. Mileage will vary on that problem though. It certainly isn't enough to stop you from reading it. The book's plot feels dangerously close to our currently reality. Water becomes scarce on the west coast of the United States and Mexico and suddenly it is every state for themselves and the most powerful people are those who can manipulate the water rights to their advantage. One of the best parts of the story is witnessing the monstrosity that California becomes. The book follows a few characters. They are all interesting and all extremely flawed. I like flawed characters though. There is a constant struggle of people trying to rise above the disaster around them. The book is so grounded in reality that watching them get squashed by the machine can be a little depressing. This is good science fiction and I hope it stays science fiction and not a startling accurate prediction of our future.
To some critics and commentators, climate change is also having a deep effect on literature, as more authors focus more closely on the actual and possible consequences of the subject in their fiction. The genre, if it can be called that yet, represents a loose affiliation that stretches back at least to J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World and includes such authors as Ian McEwan, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood. The Water Knife is perhaps the best, most-recent example of "climate fiction," and it expertly taps a wellspring of fascination and fear that runs beneath a culture ever digging a deeper hole for itself and the environment. In The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi's best-selling, Hugo- and Nebula-winning debut, the author imagines a 23rd century in which the forces of commerce have run amok over the basic, biological building blocks of life. In his equally powerful sophomore novel, The Water Knife, he takes a similar approach to an inorganic substance without which human life wouldn't exist: H2O. But where The Windup Girl takes place hundreds of years from now in Southeast Asia, The Water Knife hits closer to home for U.S. readers. Its setting is the American Southwest, at a time in the near future when Britney Spears is toothless and old, the country is plagued by climactic calamities and the Southwest's dwindling water supply is controlled by robber barons. .... Bacigalupi plays on a grand scale, but he does so with a keen eye for detail... His big triumph, though, is never forgetting that The Water Knife is a thriller at its pounding heart. Even amid reams of deeply researched information about the economy, geology, history and politics of water rights and usage in the U.S., he keeps the plot taut and the dialogue slashing. "But this is no pastiche; Bacigalupi weaves an engrossing tale all his own, crackling with edgy style." "With elements of Philip K. Dick and Charles Bowden, this epic, visionary novel should appeal to a wide audience." "An absorbing, if sometimes ideologically overbearing, thriller full of violent action and depressing visions of a bleakly imagined future." Aparece abreviada enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Una escalofriante aventura futurista que arroja nueva luz a nuestra forma de vivir, Cuchillo de agua es la primera novela adulta de Paolo Bacigalupi después de la aclamadísima, multipremiada e internacionalmente exitosa La chica mecánica. LÉELA ANTES DE QUE LA REALIDAD SUPERE LA FICCIÓN. Cuando el río Colorado se seca, el sur de EEUU se convierte en el escenario desértico de una guerra porel agua. El autor de la multipremiada La chica mecánica nos brinda un escalofriante thriller futurista que arroja una nueva luz sobre cómo vivimos actualmente... y lo que nos depara el futuro si no cambiamos de rumbo. En un futuro no muy lejano, tras siglos de sobre explotación, el río Colorado, inmenso y caudaloso, se está secando. La catástrofe obliga a miles de habitantes de los territorios implicados a emigrar a zonas más fértiles de los EE.UU. Pero los estados construyen barreras para impedir la marea de refugiados que se les viene encima. A medida que la sequía se extiende y se prolonga, el campo y las ciudades se convierten en páramos sin ley, presa de especuladores que comercian con la desesperación de los seres humanos. Entre Vegas y Phoenix, dos de las ciudades más afectadas, se gesta una guerra por el agua. Las Vegas, la legendaria ciudad convertida en un nido de terroristas, espías y asesinos a sueldo de Catherine Case, la «reina del río Colorado», se protege a sangre y fuego. Mientras Phoenix, devorada poco a poco por el desierto de Arizona, se aferra a una compañía china que perfora la tierra en busca de nuevos acuíferos. Ángel Velásquez, mercenario en la nómina de Case, viaja a Phoenix para descubrir el secreto de un sistema revolucionario para obtener agua. La persona que busca es Lucy Monroe, una periodista curtida que se debate entre el deseo de quedarse para documentar el caos que se extiende por la ciudad y el pánico que le provoca lo que podrían saber sobre ella los asesinos de su amigo James, quién murió torturado después de desvelarle información privilegiada. Ángel también conocerá allí a la joven María, hija de un emigrante mexicano, que sueña con escaparse al norte, donde dicen que la tierra sigue poblado de lagos y el agua todavía cae del cielo. Ángel, Lucy y María se convertirán en peones en manos de quienes pretenden controlar la fuente de la vida. Con la ciudad de Phoenix viniéndose abajo y el tiempo a punto de acabarse, no les queda más remedio que depender los unos de los otros para sobrevivir. Pero en un escenario en el que el agua vale más que el oro, las alianzas resultan tan movedizas como la arena. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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