Paolo Bacigalupi has a vision of the future. This is my second full read into his vision. The Windup Girl and this book, Ship Breaker, are not related but many elements of Bacigalupi's imagery of the future tie these books together. This author can tell a story with vast examples of what humanity is all about and why we are special, or evil, or worthy of saving, while churning out a world of the future in great detail.

Ship Breaker seems to be more about the hierarchy of working/social/economic classes which is very real in our world now and prevalent in Bacigalupi's future as well.

The Windup Girl also grabs a current issue and views it well into the future. I thought of Monsanto while reading it.

The Water Knife, which I've only partly read, is about a current issue regarding, (can you guess?), water and how that might play out in the future.

All these tales are well envisioned outcomes of the greediness of human nature and they all scare the hell out of me because the future Paolo Bacigalupi envisions rings true with me. People are people and power and greed will win over the righteous, just like it always has.