![]() There are two stories with Asian settings for instance, not something many American science fiction writers without an Asian background have attempted. Many of the themes that would show up in his later novel. It must be said that it is a seriously depressing set of stories though. This collection displays Bacigalupi's talent. Having read it, I was nut surprised that Bacigalupi's first novel The Windup Girl (2009) turned out to be such a success. The title story is original to the collection, the others have been published in various magazines and anthologies over the years. Pump Six and Other Stories was published by Night Shade Books and collects ten stories (eleven if you have the limited edition) from the period 1999 till 2008. My first exposure to Paolo Bacigalupi's work was the story The People of Sand and Slag, which has been included in John Joseph Adams' excellent anthology Wastelands: Stories of th Apocalypse(2008.) Soon after I had the opportunity to read Bacigalupi's first collection for review. ![]()
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