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Pump Six and Other Stories

This compilation features imaginative tales that explore futuristic themes and technological advancements. more

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Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is an American science fiction writer known for his profound insights into environmental issues and his unique imagination of the future world. His works often explore themes of climate change, resource depletion, and the relationship between humans and nature. more

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“At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.”

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Book:Pump Six and Other Stories
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“All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.”

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“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.”

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