+1000 for The Water Knife, just excellent. Bacigalupi wrote another book called Pump Six and Other Stories. If you enjoy scrappunk then the story "The People o

+1000 for The Water Knife, just excellent. Bacigalupi wrote another book called Pump Six and Other Stories. If you enjoy scrappunk then the story "The People of Sand and Slag" from that collection is pretty good. I don't know the solution to modern ship breaking, but I think we have it in us to be better. We don't want to be the people of sand and slag. Let's instead be characters from a Becky Chambers novel.