They feel right, too, the interlocking ecological, human, social and moral catastrophes he came up with, from dust storms and crooked politics to tides of doomed refugees and baroque criminality. Requiring a drought-shriveled near future for his three protagonists - Angel, a Vegas water thug Lucy, a Phoenix journalist Maria, a Texas refugee - to flee across, scrabble through and lose their illusions in, Bacigalupi has extrapolated, broadly and deeply, what would happen if the American Southwest dried up. It’s not some lame, off-the-shelf, one-apocalypse-fits-all dystopia that sci-fi novelist Paolo Bacigalupi has contrived for his new yarn, The Water Knife (Knopf, $25.95).
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