His is a future of resource scarcity, of distant, comfortable haves and multitudinous, ubiquitous have-nots, of corruption, betrayal, violence and nihilism. He has described it in different settings in his several novels, even dating back to his short story “The Tamarisk Hunter,” which occupies the same world as “The Water Knife.” That story was published in High Country News in 2006, with the disconcertingly near setting of 2030. “The Water Knife” is the dark, action-packed story of a hired gun getting tangled up with a scrappy young girl and a semi-idealistic journalist in the catastrophically water-starved American Southwest of the not-so-distant future.īy now, we know what Paonia-based, Hugo- and Nebula-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi’s dystopian future looks like. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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