Some of these stories are quite good; others are good enough but frustrate me because the worldbuilding underlying them is more interesting and the story isn't big enough for the background. Many of the stories seem to nod to plots or elements from great science fiction writers--for example, "The Fl...
None of the stories in this collection were bad, and some I would rate 4 or even 4.5 stars individually, but nothing really impressed me like the The Windup Girl did. I think my greatest disappointment was the similarity of all the themes: Bacigalupi writes dystopian stories about humanity's greed a...
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