Bacigalupi creates believable, detailed, lived-in futures that just
happen to portray an ugly set of sunsets for humanity on Earth....He is
a truly dark bard, in the spirit of Ellison at his most vivid and
cynical.--The Daily Camera
From Paolo Bacigalupi, author of The Wind-Up Girl; winner of the Hugo,
Nebula, and Locus Awards; and winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial
Award, comes a collection of eleven short science fiction stories.
Social criticism, environmental advocacy, and political parable are at
the core of Paolo's work. Each tale is simultaneously a warning and a
celebration of the tragic comedy that is the human experience.
These eleven stories represent the best of Bacigalupi's work. They
include the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Sturgeon Award-winning
story "The Calorie Man," and the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated story "The
People of Sand and slag." Readers of Ted Chiang and Kelly Link will
enjoy this collection.
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to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science
fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future
dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban
fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires,
and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title
we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller,
or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality
books from a diverse group of authors.
