Michael Lallo Lallo itibaren Narail, Bangladeş itibaren Narail, Bangladeş

charecters: Liam, Mum, Dad, Alison, Max, Nattrass, Eddie, Crystal, Oliver, Phil & Phil. Plot: Liam finds an abandoned baby & suddenly his summer becomes something that he certainly didn't expect!!! likes/ dislikes?: It was really short. Also, I never quite felt that I was really attatched to the characters. Coinsedently, it was altogether rather quite boring.

I read "Pump Six" the eponymous short story as it was reprinted in a science fiction magazine and was immediately hooked by Bacigalupi's wry dystopian assessment of human nature. Many of these stories inhabit the same world and it is often difficult to distinguish whether or not they belong to the same canon. Regardless of their seeming integration with each other, each of these stories reads disturbingly well. Each character is fully realized and developed by the end of the story. While it is absolutely a world of discord Bacigalupi's characters inhabit, there are solid characters and plenty of subtly tragicomic moments to keep the pages turning. I closed the book with an "Amen" as the author's appraisal of the human condition is one I was very much able to identify with.