The Water Knife

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http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Water-Knife-Audiobook/B00UAWDZ32?source_code=AUDORWS0309159CVZ An intense thriller and a deeply insightful vision of the coming century, laid out in all its pain and glory. It’s a water knife indeed, right to the heart.”—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora Pfeiffer, Lee. "Knife in the Water". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Lucy Monroe is a Pulitzer winning journalist who has stayed in Phoenix longer than she intended to, making a dangerous living reporting on the water wars. She can't seem to abandon the chaos that surrounds her, hoping for that one big story. She knows far more about Phoenix's water secrets than she admits.

Where abstruse science and journalistic integrity struggles to find the simple clear messaging that will shift minds and attitudes, climate change fiction has more freedom to engage readers at the emotional level. As Bacigalupi observes, The book is based on Bacigalupi's short story, The Tamarisk Hunters, and revolves around the effects of climate change in the near future. The water supply has been drastically reduced and control of the supply has been taken over by corrupt business magnates. Angel Velasquez is the main protagonist and is a spy/assassin, known as a “water knife" – his job is to sabotage the water supply of his employer’s competitors. He encounters many conflicts on his journey and meets the mysterious journalist Lucy Monroe and refugee Maria Villarosa along the way. Of course, this is a novel about climate change. Bacigalupi throws some pithy observations, with weighty contemporary relevance, into the mouths of his characters. a b c Eveld, Edward M. (June 26, 2015). "In 'The Water Knife,' extreme drought creates a dystopian America". The Kansas City Star . Retrieved October 19, 2020.Heath, A. (2023, March 29). Net Zero is a Trojan Horse for the total destruction of western society. Retrieved from www.telegraph.co.uk: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/29/net-zero-trojan-horse-total-destruction-western-society/

In chapter 13, Angel thinks about his first meeting with Lucy: “He’d known her. And she’d known him, too” (141). realizes. Why does Angel think that he and Lucy know each other even though they had never met previously? What does he believe they share in common? Would you say that he is correct? Why or why not? Urry, A. (2015, July 9). Can Fiction make people care about climate/ Paolo Bacigalupi thinks so. Retrieved from grist.org: https://grist.org/living/can-fiction-make-people-care-about-climate-paolo-bacigalupi-thinks-so/One way to answer these questions is to explore the possibilities via fiction. As we march slowly but relentlessly into a climate-changed future, many writers have taken up the challenge by feeling out the limits of its contours. The genre is called " cli-fi." At its worst, cli-fi is simply "collapse porn" replete with repeating narratives of the post-apocalypse. Admussen, N. (2016, May-June). Six Proposals for the Reform of Literature in the Era of Climate Change. Retrieved July 23, 2022, from criticalflame.org: http://criticalflame.org/six-proposals-for-the-reform-of-literature-in-the-age-of-climate-change/ Caputo, Davide (2012). Polanski and Perception: The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski. Bristol, England: Intellect Books. ISBN 978-1-841-50552-7. Angel Velasquez was born in Mexico and fled the country with his father after gang members murdered his mother and sister. After being released from prison by Catherine Case, Angel now works for her as her most trusted "water knife"; a hired henchman, assassin and spy who sneaks into the water boards of Nevada's rival states, California and Arizona, sabotaging and destroying their water supplies. Evaluate the theme of justice in the novel. What examples of justice are found in the novel? Why do the characters discuss the concept of poetic justice? At the story’s conclusion, would you say that justice seems to prevail? If not, what message does the book seem to offer about justice?