You see, whatever kind of pretty label we try to dress Bacigalupi's books up in - like "dystopian", "post-apocalyptic" or "steampunk" - the truth is that he writes old-fashioned, hard, sciencey science-fiction. Over it all, emergency purchase prices on streamflows and futures offers scrolled via NASDAQ, available open-market purchase options if she needed to recharge the depth in Lake Mead" Other numbers, displaying the depths of reservoirs and dams, from the Blue Mesa Dam on the Gunnison, to the Navajo Dam on the San Juan, to the Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green.
"Numbers flickering over the various catchment basins of the Rocky Mountains - red, amber, green - monitoring how much snow cover remained and variation off the norm as it melted. Things that made me want to thrust it into the hands of anyone who bothers to listen to my recommendations. There were things about The Water Knife that I can and will praise highly. The latter was such a powerful and horrifying book about the effects of war, particularly on kids. I enjoyed The Windup Girl and I especially loved The Drowned Cities. I really like and appreciate what the author tries to do, both the strength of his writing and his focus on the dystopian but not unrealistic futures that could occur due to climate change. As with Brave New World, I think I'm inviting insults to my intelligence by saying this, but sometimes Mr Bacigalupi is just a little too heavy for me.
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