Love me some Paolo Bacigalupi. "Water Knife" is a good Eco-Action Thriller, very fast paced and lotsa intrigue & spy/undercover stuff, near future setting. "Ship Breaker" I remember liking it when I finished it but details escape me. Its a young adult novel and I remember it being not as meaty as his other stuff. "The Windup Girl" would make an awesome setting for a game. Great extrapolation from where we are today to where we could easily end up. Think Monsanto on steroids. As far as fertile grounds for a game "The Windup Girl" gets 3 thumbs up from me, and its one of the only books in the last decade I've gone back to multiple times.