Pump Six and Other Stories
7 best books like Pump Six and Other Stories (Paolo Bacigalupi): Zoo City, Ark, Teranesia, The Caryatids, Cyberabad Days, How the World Became Quiet, Dášeňka, čili život štěněte
| Author | Lauren Beukes |
| ISBN | 0007327684 |
Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons.
Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi...
On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.
It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already...
| Author | Greg Egan |
| ISBN | 0061059803 |
Prabir Suresh and his younger sister, Madhursee, live in a remote paradise called Teranesia, where their biologist parents are studying an unexplained genetic mutation among the island's butterflies. Then civil war erupts across Indonesia, shattering their idyllic world and their lives.Twenty...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0345460626 |
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny verisimilitude. To read a novel by Sterling is...
| Author | Ian McDonald |
| ISBN | 1591026997 |
A collection of eight stories, "Cyberabad Days" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of
River of Gods
); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children.
contents:
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How the World Became Quiet
| Author | Rachel Swirsky |
| ISBN | 1596065508 |
After a powerful sorceress is murdered, she's summoned over the centuries to witness devastating changes to the land where she was born. A woman who lives by scavenging corpses in the Japanese suicide forest is haunted by her dead lover. A man searches for the memory that will overwrite his childhood...
Dášeňka, čili život štěněte
Een enorm zoet en schattig boek over een kleine pup genaamd Dasja. In het eerste stuk zien we hoe Dasja opgroeid van kleine hummel naar iets met veel energie en veel brutaliteit. Ik vond het heerlijk om deze stukjes te lezen en de illustraties maakten alles nog leuker. Ook de volgende hoofdstukken waren...
