Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi

Pump Six and Other Stories is a compilation of science fiction short stories that take place in perhaps our very near future.  The setting in the Kingdom of Thailand, mostly Bangkok, recognizes the importance of Asia in our world.  Each of the eleven stories represents the best of Paolo’s work.  They are possible, believable and therefore frightening.  Each story addresses today’s most pressing environmental problems – famine, plague,  exhaustion of resources and the solutions that humans find in combination with their greed and personal motives.  Perhaps some of these stories predict the future.  Let’s hope not. 

These stories are so well written that you will want them to continue beyond their ending.  Enjoy The Yellow Card Man, Pump Six and The People of Sand and Slag to name a few.   Pump Six and Other Stories is available on Amazon.com.

Paolo Bacigalupi’s fiction has been collected in various best of  the year anthologies, been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards and has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best SF short story of the year.