This is useful because these are, after all, cautionary tales. You’ll be confused–Why are people behaving this way? What is this “cleansing” they refer to?–but as you slowly figure out how this particular world works, you’ll feel the eureka-like ecstasy of comprehension. He drops you in the middle of a world, disoriented enough not to see it as you might expect, but as it is. One of Bacigalupi’s prime virtues as a storyteller is his measured illumination of what’s really going on. Like the novel, the stories in Pump Six imagine what life might be like if our species’ current challenges–global warming, technology outpacing morality, inequality, and environmental degradation most prominently–go unaddressed. Pump Six was Paolo Bacigalupi’s first collection of short stories, two of which inspired his novel The Windup Girl. Our species can barely handle the present day: how the hell are we going to handle the future?
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