![]() ![]() We spoke as we walked along an irrigation ditch above Paonia, its water high from recent rains and the valley’s hay meadows and apple orchards green with spring. His new book, The Water Knife, grew from a short story he wrote for HCN, “ The Tamarisk Hunter.” In his latest novel, Bacigalupi has written a near-future thriller, set in a world where water is scarce and law is scarcer, where much of humanity is holed up in efficient towers called arcologies, and where a man named Angel Valasquez, the henchman for a Vegas water czar, brutally cuts people away from their water rights. ![]() He has won the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards for his writing, but we remember him fondly as our first online editor. The author Paolo Bacigalupi grew up in Paonia, Colorado, where he was also on staff at High Country News. Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now ![]()
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