While the wealthy stay wet in lush high-rise cities, the poor are forced to pay $6.00-plus for a gallon of water, and struggle to find ways north through militarized state lines. That's the frighteningly-plausible future depicted in Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel "The Water Knife."
Salt Lake City author Ally Condie's new YA novel "Atlantia," set in an underwater world, was inspired, in part, by the days her children were forced to stay inside due to air pollution. She says "I live in an almost impossibly beautiful place...Every day I look up and draw in my breath at how beautiful it is--except in the winter, when I try not to breathe at all." On Monday's AU we'll explore responses in fiction to our water and air problems. Join us for conversation with Paolo Bacigalupi and Ally Condie.
