![]() I haven’t read it (it’s on my wishlist) but it apparently warns that current water management policy in the western United States is doomed to fail. The story references a real book called Cadillac Desert. It is set in our current universe, perhaps ten to twenty years in the future, and concerns the issue of water in the American southwest. ![]() When I heard he had a new adult novel out, called The Water Knife, I immediately ordered it on Amazon. They were good but not as enjoyable as his other work. Look, considering the amount of money made from stories aimed at the YA market set in a distopian future, preferably with a female protagonist caught in a love triangle, I can’t blame him. His next two books, however, were aimed at young adults. I followed that book with the short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories that I enjoyed as well, especially since many of the stories occur in the Windup Girl universe. They are wound by huge animals called meglodonts that walk on treadmills to generate power. For example, vehicles run on springs, special nanotechnology springs that can store a tremendous amount of energy. In the universe he creates, the world is post Peak Oil and depends on bioengineering, among other things, to provide the functions that used to come from petroleum. ![]() I do remember that the first book I read by him was The Windup Girl. I forgot how I got introduced to Paolo Bacigalupi. ![]()
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