Goddamn "The Water Knife" is just so good. I have no idea what I read before that I remembered as "The Water Knife" but it definitely wasn't this. Excellent but overly relatable at this point
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Yeah that does sound up my alley! Subject matter of Windup Girl was interesting but Bacigalupi was… maybe not the right person to write a whole book set in Thailand.
On it. Thank you. *Sitting next to my near-empty 1300 gallon rain cistern on the patio above all my passive rainwater harvesting basins in Tucson atm. *
“Fans of Station Eleven will particularly enjoy this hopeful vision of a postapocalyptic world where there is danger, but also the possibility for ideas to spread, community to blossom, and people to not just survive, but thrive.” 2/2
Unfortunately* this is a book in which one of the main characters is a desert/border reporter who is obsessed with water rights in a world remapped by climate change
I've been telling everyone I already read this for years. Now I have to go back and figure out wtf I actually read that I remembered as The Water Knife
That's a great idea. I enjoyed "Redshirts" by John Scalzi recently if you haven't read it, it went from a kind of goofy, fun read to something that's I actually thought was pretty lovely
I’m constantly recommending this book to friends, even though it sorta messed me up. I started it while visiting family in Texas and it felt too on the money that I had to pause and restart once I was back in Chicago.
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Read a brief sample of this & I'm already hooked. Gonna dive right into the whole book.
Rereading The Windup Girl now.
*For the rest of the book club
It's been a fascination for decades.
I think of Arcosanti as the brutalist-modernist attempt to relaunch communalism. Maybe I'll get there some day.