Angel Velasquez is a “water knife,” an enforcer of water rights for the Southern Nevada Water Authority. want them to like or hate your book based on the book is itself, not based on the idea that maybe it's, I don't know, Barbarella.From Chapter 1 of Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Water Knife,” published by Knopf, a division of Random House. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.Īnd so, you know, in terms of labeling it, I'll label my books anything that will get somebody to read it. When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. 'No, no, no - well, so I actually write about this crazy drought in the Southwest where Phoenix and Las Vegas are having a water war, and there's very little water in the Colorado River,' and suddenly the person's like 'oh yeah, well, we're having a terrible drought here' or wherever they're living. So if I say this book is science fiction, or if I say I'm a science fiction writer, automatically one of the things you'll hear from people is 'oh, I don't read that.' The questions about how we label a story really seem to set a lot of preconceptions in people's minds. Paolo Bacigalupi is also the author of the novels The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.

Listen to their full conversation with the audio link above. Think Chinatown meets Mad Max.īacigalupi talked with NPR's Arun Rath about the new book, his inspirations, and how to categorize his fiction. The novel follows three people: a climate refugee, a journalist, and a 'water knife' - a secret agent for Las Vegas's ruthless water czar. Those questions inspired Bacigalupi to write The Water Knife, a noir-ish, cinematic thriller set in the midst of a water war between Las Vegas and Phoenix. This question of too many people needing too little water.' Las Vegas was, in fact, digging deeper and deeper intakes into Lake Mead,' he remembers. ' Lake Powell and Lake Mead were hitting historic lows, and they weren't re-filling the way they were supposed to. doesn't end? A few years ago, the science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi started exploring what could happen. What if the devastating drought in the western U.S. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Water Knife Author Paolo Bacigalupi

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