Pump six and other stories
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Night Shade Books; Diamond [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781597802024
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: American Science fiction; American Short stories
Description: Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo Bacigalupi's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."
Notes: Originally published: 2008.
Table of contents: title: Pocketful of dharma --; title: The fluted girl --; title: The people of sand and slag --; title: The Pasho --; title: The calorie man --; title: The Tamarisk hunter --; title: Pop Squad --; title: Yellow card man --; title: Softer --; title: Pump Six.