Status Updates From Pump Six and Other Stories

What was that?

Read “Pump Six,” which is the only piece of Bacigalupi’s I’ve read that is written in the first person. It’s also by far his zippiest story, with a welcome goofball energy.

Read “Softer,” a dark, brief portrait of a man in a particularly nasty moment.

Read “Yellow Card Man” a second time, and was once again knocked out by it. Bacigalupi at his brutally clear-eyed best.

Bacigalupi’s writing is almost always pretty grim, but “Pop Squad” is VERY grim. Hauntingly effective.

Read “The Tamarisk Hunter,” a disturbingly plausible portrait of folks caught in a water rights battle during a huge drought in a near-future American West.

Read “The Calorie Man,” which I’d read 5 years ago, and which remains a fantastic introduction to Bacigalupi’s Windup universe.

Read “Pasho,” a very satisfying tale of what happens when new knowledge goes face to face with tradition.

Read “The People of Sand and Slag,” which featured some of the strangest and most inventive versions of possible future biotech I’ve ever read.

Read “The Fluted Girl,” which, though it’s not set in the same universe at The Windup Girl, feels like it’s got seeds of some of the ideas Bacigalupi brought forth in that wonderful novel.

Read “Pocketful of Dharma,” set in a convincingly drawn future Chengdu, and featuring a wonderfully compelling protagonist

And just like the show it's Hella depressing. Especially now.

Little depressing reading this in AZ.
Also didn't know pop squad was a book. Was a very good Love Death Robots episode

I think The Pasho does what The Storyteller was trying to do but better, and in only 20 pages.

I am completely hooked

These are very lazy short stories that follow the same boring structure.