07515cam a2200517 4500 232058688 TxAuBib 20150601120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385352895 0385352891 B00NRQOR26 Amazon a46269bd-5553-4329-a5d7-e8f860492366 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2047209 OverDrive (Product ID) 237233 2047209 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Water Knife [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1025kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1020kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:WATER IS POWER Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and National Book Award finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today--and what may be in store for us tomorrow. The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and its boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the gutted-suburban dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. With a wallet full of identities and a tricked-out Tesla, Angel arrows south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, Angel encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist, who knows far more about Phoenix's water secrets than she admits, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north to those places where water still falls from the sky. As bodies begin to pile up and bullets start flying, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger, more corrupt, and dirtier than any of them could have imagined. With Phoenix teetering on the verge of collapse and time running out for Angel, Lucy, and Maria, their only hope for survival rests in one another's hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:"[A] fresh, genre-bending thriller. . . . Reading Paolo Bacigalupi's richly imagined novel The Water Knife brings to mind the movie Chinatown. Although one is set in the past and the other in a dystopian future, both are neo-noir tales with jaded antiheroes and ruthless kingpins who wield water as lethal weapons to control life--and mete out death. . . . Bacigalupi weaves page-turning action with zeitgeisty themes. . . . His use of water as sacred currency evokes Frank Herbert's Dune. The casual violence and slang may bring to mind A Clockwork Orange. The book's nervous energy recalls William Gibson at his cyberpunk best. Its visual imagery evokes Dust Bowl Okies in the Great Depression and the catastrophic 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam that killed 600 people and haunted its builder, Mulholland, into the grave. . . . Reading the novel in 93-degree March weather while L.A. newscasts warned of water rationing and extended drought, I felt the hot panting breath of the desert on my nape and I shivered, hoping that Bacigalupi's vision of the future won't be ours.". HTML:Denise Hamilton, Los Angeles Times. HTML:"Paolo Bagicalupi's new near-future thriller arrives at a depressingly appropriate moment. . . . The Water Knife is a carefully constructed thriller, with elements ofChinatown and The Maltese Falcon. But the novel ultimately transcends its pulpier origins. Bacigalupi offers a carefully calibrated warning of what might happen if the US refuses to address global climate change and its own water-wasting ways. It's one we ignore at our peril.". HTML:Michael Berry, Earth Island Journal. HTML:"[A] water-wars thriller set in the Southwest only a few decades from now. . . . While Bacigalupi's environmental message could not be more powerful, it's neatly embedded in a nonstop action plot, full of murders and betrayals, that should satisfy thriller readers who didn't even think they cared about these issues.". HTML:Gary K. Wolfe, The Chicago Tribune. "Residents in the southwestern United States enduring that water crisis will appreciate the precision with which Bacigalupi imagines our thirsty future. . . . Bacigalupi is a grim, efficient and polished narrator. . . . Our waterless future looks hot--and filled with conflict.". HTML:Hector Tobar, The Washington Post. "Mr. Bacigalupi's is the most thought-provoking of the recent apocalypses. It's a very timely read for policy-makers, as well as anyone living in the threatened American West. That's the thing about sci-fi authors: Some of them really mean it.". HTML:Tom Shippey, The Wall Street Journal. "These days are coming, and as always fiction explains them better than fact. This is a spectacular thriller, wonderfully imagined and written, and racing through it will make you think--and make you thirsty.". HTML:Lee Child, author of Personal. "Anyone can write about the future. Paolo Bacigalupi writes about the future that we're making today, if we keep going the way we are. It makes his writing beautiful . . . and terrifying.". HTML:John Scalzi, author of Lock In. "Bacigalupi's characters are engagingly unpredictable, and his story blasts along like a twin-battery Tesla. The Water Knife is splendid near-future fiction, a compelling thriller--and inordinately fun.". Cleveland Plain Dealer. HTML:"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.". HTML:Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora. HTML:"A noir-ish, cinematic thriller set in the midst of a water war between Las Vegas and Phoenix. . . . Think Chinatown meets Mad Max.". NPR, All Things Considered. Science Fiction. Literature. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. http://www.ntexlibrariesonthego.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=a46269bd-5553-4329-a5d7-e8f860492366 https://samples.overdrive.com/water-knife-a46269?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/water-knife-a46269?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/water-knife-a46269?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR