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This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's Michael L. Printz
Award winner "Ship Breaker" is a haunting and powerful story of
loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.
In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch
everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave
behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into
the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a
bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a
vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly
collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the
other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save
a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be
possible.
Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and
reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism,
political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of
Paolo'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'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". The title story is
original to this collection. With this book, Paolo Bacigalupi takes
his place alongside SF short fiction masters Ted Chiang, Kelly Link
and others, as an important young writer that directly and
unabashedly tackles today's most important issues.
"A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where
oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer."
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being
broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage
boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to
make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck
or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during
a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his
life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone
survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a
better life....
In this powerful novel, Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling,
fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are
practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and
nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know
the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving
monsters... ZOMBIES!!! The boys decide to launch a stealth
investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly
discovering a greedy corporation's plot to look the other way as
tainted meat is sold to thousands all over the country. With no
grown-ups left they can trust, Rabi and his friends will have to
grab their bats to protect themselves (and a few of their enemies)
if they want to stay alive...and maybe even save the world. In this
inventive, fast-paced novel that strikes a pitch-perfect tone for
reluctant readers, National Book Award finalist and Printz
Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi effectively uses humour and
high-intensity action to take on hard-hitting themes - from food
safety to racism and immigration - and creates a zany, grand-slam
adventure that will get kids thinking about where their food comes
from.
Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant,
and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories.
These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the
realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they
are the stories of ourselves. Featuring best-selling writers and
emerging talents, here are some of the most exciting genre writers
working today. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once
again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you
will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe,
displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly
relevant to our turbulent world. Featuring Kelly Link * Holly Black
* Ken Liu * Usman T. Malik * Lauren Beukes * Paolo Bacigalupi * Joe
Abercrombie * Genevieve Valentine * Nicola Griffith * Caitlin R.
Kiernan * Greg Egan * K. J. Parker * Rachel Swirsky * Alice Sola
Kim * Garth Nix * Karl Schroeder * Ellen Klages * Kai Ashante
Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Eleanor Arnason * James Patrick Kelly *
Ian Mcdonald * Amal El-Mohtar * Tim Maughan * Elizabeth Bear *
Theodora Goss * Peter Watts
WINNER OF THE HUGO, NEBULA, LOCUS, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AND COMPTON
CROOK AWARDS The Windup Girl is the ground-breaking and visionary
modern classic that swept the board for every major science fiction
award it its year of publication. Anderson Lake is a company man,
AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a
factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of
foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup
girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the
slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the
rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new
underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie
companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant
across the globe. And as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with
Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions
threaten to spiral out of control. Businessmen and ministry
officials, wealthy foreigners and landless refugees all have their
own agendas. But no one anticipates the devastating influence of
the Windup Girl. Discover the multi-award winning The Windup Girl:
both a heart-stopping dystopian thriller and a razor-sharp vision
of our near future. 'Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William
Gibson' Time Magazine 'An astounding novel' Interzone 'Not since
William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, NEUROMANCER (1984),
has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much' The
Washington Post 'An exciting story about industrial espionage,
civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding
action sequences' Cory Doctorow 'Clearly one of the finest science
fiction novels of the year' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
'It's ridiculous how good this book is' Techland 'Postmodern
Bangkok springs to life in Bacigalupi's brilliant dystopian tale of
culture clash, recalling the best of China Mieville and Neal
Stephenson' Library Journal 'The pace of the book is fast and
relentless. It is a dark vision . . . As a portrait of a world far
from our own but not unrecognisably so, it is finely done' Times
Literary Supplement
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Tool of War (Paperback)
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Set in a dark future devastated by climate change, Tool of War is the third book in a major adventure series by a bestselling and award-winning science fiction author and starring the most provocative character from the acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.
In this gripping, eerily prescient sci-fi thriller that Kirkus described as “masterful,” Tool–a half-man/half-beast designed for combat–proves himself capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered “augments” and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. But he is hunted relentlessly by someone determined to destroy him, who knows an alarming secret: Tool has found the way to resist his genetically ingrained impulses of submission and loyalty toward his masters. The time is coming when Tool will embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him.
From one of science fiction’s undisputed masters comes a riveting and all-too-timely page-turner that explores the intricate relationships connecting hunter and prey, master and enslaved, human and monster.
“Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games…but Bacigalupi is one of the genre’s masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines.” —Los Angeles Times
The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that
even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of
denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their
task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the
incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response
to mankind's unwitting creation of a tough new planet. From T. C.
Boyle's account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel Rich's comic
fantasy about a marine biologist haunted by his youth, and David
Mitchell's vision of a near future where oil sells for $800 a
barrel-these ten provocative, occasionally chilling, sometimes
satirical stories bring a human reality to disasters of inhuman
proportions. Royalties from the sale of I'm with the Bears will go
to 350.org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce
the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie--at least according
to the mysterious young man who's been stalking her. But could her
dad really be a bad guy at the helm of an organization that covers
up the deadly wrongdoings of some of the country's most rich and
powerful? Alix has to make an impossible choice between her father
and the young man she's not only falling for, but who's asking her
to blow the whistle on the man who raised her. Could someone you
have loved and have known for your whole life actually have the
heart of a killer?
From the international bestselling author of the Hugo and Nebula
award-winning The Windup Girl, comes an electrifying thriller set
in a world on the edge of collapse. WATER IS POWER The American
Southwest has been decimated by drought, Nevada and Arizona
skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while
California watches. When rumors of a game-changing water source
surface in Phoenix, Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez is sent
to investigate. With a wallet full of identities and a tricked-out
Tesla, Angel arrows south, hunting for answers that seem to
evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more
and more oppressive. There, Angel encounters Lucy Monroe, a
hardened journalist who knows far more about Phoenix's water
secrets than she admits, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant
who dreams of escaping north to those places where water still
falls from the sky. As bodies begin to pile up and bullets start
flying, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger, more
corrupt, and dirtier than any of them could have imagined. With
Phoenix teetering on the verge of collapse and time running out,
their only hope for survival rests in one another's hands. But when
water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and
the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if
anyone hopes to drink.
"A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where
oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer."
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being
broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage
boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to
make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck
or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during
a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his
life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone
survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a
better life....
In this powerful novel, Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling,
fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
"A gritty, high-stakes adventure set in a futuristic world where
oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer."
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being
broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage
boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to
make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck
or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during
a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his
life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone
survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a
better life....
In this powerful novel, Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling,
fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT... For decades, the
apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting
short stories of all time. From David Brin's seminal The Postman to
Hugh Howey's Deep Blood Kettle and Tananarive Due's prescient
Patient Zero, the end of the world continues to thrill. This
companion volume to the critically acclaimed WASTELANDS offers
thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction,
with works by: Ann Aguirre Megan Arkenberg Paolo Bacigalupi
Christopher Barzak Lauren Beukes David Brin Orson Scott Card Junot
Diaz Cory Doctorow Tananarive Due Toiya Kristen Finley Milo Joe R.
Lansdale George R. R. Martin Jack McDevitt Seanan McGuire Maureen
F. McHugh D. Thomas Minton Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling Ramsey
Shehadeh Robert Silverberg Award-winning editor John Joseph Adams
has once again assembled a who's who of short fiction, and the
result is nothing short of mind-blowing. --- PRAISE FOR WASTELANDS:
Everything that is best about the trope, from bleak, empty worlds
to beacons of hope. - Booklist. The best anthology of any kind I
have read to date. - Grasping for the Wind. A great collection that
gets my highest recommendation.- Bookgasm
In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National
Book Award finalist Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly
captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending
civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become
soulless killing machines. Two refugees of these wars, Mahlia and
Mouse, are known as 'war maggots': survivors who have barely
managed to escape the unspeakable violence plaguing the war-torn
lands of the Drowned Cities. But their fragile safety is threatened
when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast
named Tool, who is hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers. When
tragedy strikes, Mahlia is faced with an impossible decision: risk
everything to save the boy who once saved her, or flee to her own
safety. Drawing upon the brutal truths of current events, The
Drowned Cities is a powerful story of loyalty, survival, and
heart-pounding adventure.
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon these are our guides
through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to "The Road Warrior," from "A
Canticle for Leibowitz" to "The Road," storytellers have long
imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of
catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary
authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring
themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life in the aftermath
of total societal collapse.
Gathering together the best postapocalyptic literature of the
last two decades from many of today s most renowned authors of
speculative fiction including George R. R. Martin, Gene Wolfe,
Orson Scott Card, Carol Emshwiller, Jonathan Lethem, Octavia E.
Butler, and Stephen King" Wastelands" explores the scientific,
psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to
remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the
world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or
cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases
struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely
surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending
themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.
"Wastelands" delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the
raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre s
core."
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