tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711195880526876235.post3297341221920847780..comments2024-03-09T03:30:45.524-05:00Comments on Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review: Cover Unveiled for The Water Knife by Paolo BacigalupiThe Mad Hatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14135107584625716128noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5711195880526876235.post-85878387611802208322014-10-14T19:48:32.059-04:002014-10-14T19:48:32.059-04:00Bacigalupi has had pretty profound influence on my...Bacigalupi has had pretty profound influence on my literary and academic interests over the past six years since I read The Windup Girl and the stories of Pump Six.<br /><br />Back in 2008, his work captured my imagination in a way that led me to engross myself in climate change, peak oil, and other related limits to growth. <br /><br />Bacigalup has an impressive ability to sketch out a near future Earth where human societies stagger through the consequences of the industrial expansion that we are currently enjoying.<br /><br />That's why the cover of The Water Knife is so disappointing...while there may be a Southwest Art motif that I don't quite recognize under all of those blue lines, overall, the cover seems quite slapdash, especially when compared to The Wind Up Girl and Pump Six's covers.<br /><br />Still, I'm very much looking forward to the new book!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01277601946548725064noreply@blogger.com