Pump Six and Other Stories (Hardcover) by Paolo Bacigalupi

from PghDragonMan

You know that office mate that tells these incredibly complicated stories that just seem to go on forever and just doesn't know when to stop talking? That's Paolo Bacigalupi with this collection of stories. The stories are great; they just go on too interminably long. While these short stories we...

from Tatiana_G

It took me a loooong time to get through this book, and not because it wasn't good, but because I was bloody scared of it. I would finish one story looking like this @.@ and then put the book aside for a while to get some courage to read another one. Bacigalupi is the author who doesn't do safe a...

from StephenBarkley

One of the most profitable ways to interpret apocalyptic literature is to consider what the words meant to the original hearers. Revelation, for example, was a worship text for the early church which gave them the confidence to persevere in trial. In an analogous way, Bagigalupi's collection of s...

from jnwelch

Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi takes place in the world of his The Windup Girl, or similar future Earths. Those that liked The Windup Girl are likely to enjoy this collection of short stories, maybe even more so. Set in the future, they extrapolate from present day hot button issu...

from kd9

Welcome to a series of cautionary futures. Even though I have read most of these stories before, I eagerly read them all again and enjoyed the ones I hadn't read. Most of the protagonists sense that something is wrong with their world, but can find very little to do to change it. From the modifie...