5/24/2023 0 Comments The water knife novel![]() ![]() Fast forward a generation or two and what have we got? The world of The Water Knife.Īs soon as I read it I knew I wanted to review it here on Green Path, adding it to previous posts about ‘ greenie fiction‘ and movies. ![]() Inland cities are critically dependent on artesian water and rivers fed by snow-melt from the Rockies, especially the Colorado, but artesian basins are being depleted faster than they can replenish themselves and the snow pack on the Rockies is smaller every year. California is currently in the grip of an unprecedented drought. South-western USA is already arid and seems to be becoming more so. SF at its best does thought-experiments really well, and this is one of them. That said, it is both an important, timely novel of ideas and a gritty thriller. It may be the most brutal book I have ever finished and you really don’t want anyone you care about to live in a world like it. ![]() The Water Knife is a vision of an imminent future well worth avoiding: water wars in a fragmented US as droughts get steadily worse. ![]()
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