BOOK
The Water Knife
THE GIST
The gist
In a near-future American Southwest gripped by drought, states fight over what's left of the Colorado River, and a hired enforcer secures water for Las Vegas by any means necessary. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, he's drawn into a dangerous scramble (2015).
ON THE SHOW
On the show.
- Ep 3 — Science Fiction isn’t about the future (10:20–11:10, 15:59–16:08): Rob's favorite climate fiction pick. He connects its dried-up Colorado River to Lake Powell's record lows today, and later uses it as an example of a book set in a post-apocalyptic world that isn't about that setting.
TERMS
Terms it runs on.
- Post-Apocalyptic Fiction — Fiction set after civilization collapses, whether from war, plague, disaster, or something stranger, focused on survival and on what people rebuild.
- Climate Fiction — Fiction, often science fiction, centered on climate change and how people live through, cause, or respond to it.