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Pump Six and Other Stories

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Pump Six and Other Stories	comment	Pump Six and Other Stories is Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection of short stories. It's full of social criticism, political parables and environmental advocacy, while often indulging in extremely black humour.Almost all stories contained in the collection were at least nominated for prestigious awards in sci-fi literature. With a massive helping of Bio Punk, they feature different but closely related visions of a bleak future, in which Earth is/was ravaged by different kinds of cataclysms or has been taken over by amoral MegaCorps, with a focus on how human society has adapted to the changes and how advances in technology could effectively rob us of our humanity - and nobody would care.The collection contains following stories: "Pocketful of Dharma" "The Fluted Girl" "The People of Sand and Slag" "The Pasho" "The Calorie Man" "The Tamarisk Hunter" "Pop Squad" "Yellow Card Man" "Softer" "Pump Six" "Small Offerings"Many of them would be later expanded into full-length books (for example, "Yellow Card Man" and "The Calorie Man" were combined into single setting and recycled into The Windup Girl). "Pop Squad" got an Animated Adaptation with the same title as part of the second season of Love, Death & Robots in May 2021.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1044a759	comment	The stray dog from The People of Sand and Slag might be the very last specimen living in the wild, bordering on Dying Race. The sheer damage and toxicity its body sustained makes it too weak to survive weeviltech implants, making it even more unique.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_109bc3e	type	Eat the Dog
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_109bc3e	comment	Eat the Dog: The conclusion of The People of Sand and Slag.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: Almost all of the stories have shades of it, but several stand out: In The Calorie Man, most of the world's crops and foliage were destroyed by bio-engineered plagues and pests while a few corporations were battling each other over the monopoly on the seed market. While it takes place in Post-Peak Oil, the world is far from clean or green - most plantlife was destroyed and the remaining edible plants are all sterile, so most of the world is barren aside corporation-owned mega-farms. Most of animals went extinct due to prolonged famine and the ones remaining were freakishly redesigned genetically to survive on minimal feed, while providing maximum energy. By all accounts Earth from The People of Sand and Slag is a toxic, barren wasteland that's unable to support any contemporary lifeforms. But since the characters in the story have been modified in a way that allows them to survive on the sand and slag of the title (and much worse things), they are absolutely unaware of how bad things around them are. One of the scenes takes place on a Hawaiian beach, describing in lovely detail the glistening of the oil in the dark ocean and the beach itself covered in so much debris there is barely any sand left - yet everyone treats it like a perfect Beach Episode, with great weather and all. World in Small Offerings is so heavily polluted, everyone is wearing gas masks constantly, even inside buildings. Despite said buildings being equipped with their own sets of filters. Most food is too contaminated to eat at all and the rest is still going to make you sick. Pregnancies go in two stages: first the mother goes through a "prenatal" treatment that uses the fetus as a sponge for toxins within her body, then the mutated mess of tissue is euthanised (if it's somehow alive) upon birth and then the actual, heavily supervised pregnancy happens. Who and why would ever want to bring children into a world like that is anyone's guess. In Pump Six natural resources barely even exist anymore. Polluted food and chemical waste have been gradually mutating humanity into unintelligent primate forms and dumbing down those few humans who are still born as such, to the point that by the end of the story the protagonist wonders if there is really any difference between them. Sewage systems, desperately keeping under the barest form of control the avalanche of chemicals constantly threatening to wreck everything, are failing. Repeated mention is made of "crashes of concrete rain", implied to either be acid rain destroying buildings and dropping pieces of them onto the people below or actual condensed concrete material brought in by the rain. Nobody is even aware of these problems, nor is there any way of reversing them: the ecologic system stands on the brink of complete collapse and what's left of humanity is poised to go down with it.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Pretty much all lords and ladies in The Fluted Girl are bored, rich people that have complete control over their servants, including doing whatever they please with their bodies. For their own personal amusement, treating those people as nothing else than self-propelled toys at their disposal. Cold-Blooded Torture and terror are their standard way of instilling order and boy, oh boy, they are one vindictive bunch. To his complete surprise, Jonathan Lilly from Softer feels absolutely nothing after murdering his wife. No sadness, no grief, no joy, no relief. Just complete nothing, all while his thoughts roam from subject to subject. He then realises even any sort of guilt is absent.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Jonathan Lilly finds out that nobody can tell he's a wife-killer and the world around him just continues as if nothing happened. And it will continue even once they find out.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1b45acae	type	Post-Peak Oil
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1b45acae	comment	In stories taking place Post-Peak Oil, technology is just plain weird. Genetically modified pack animals are powering massive capstans, transmitting mechanical energy to spring-based storage devices. Said springs are then used to power the engines of barges, transporting huge quantities of patented GMO seeds. Mandatory Zeppelins from Another World and clippers are the main means of long-range transportation. And let's not forget about computers being powered by treadles. While industrial complexes and factories still exist, they are just huge glorified sweat-shops, operating only during daylight, to save on the energy required for factory lights.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Lidia has been put into so much training and conditioning that she ends up quite confused why her extensive bio-augmentation could be considered bad or, dare anyone say it, immoral. After all, the benevolent lady Belari paid for it all with her own money!
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Literally. Lady Berali from The Fluted Girl has green-eyes (possibly even her own) and absolutely hates any sort of competition in anything she does.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1ded42bc	type	BewareTheCuteOnes
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1ded42bc	comment	Beware the Cute Ones: Right before committing suicide, Lidia The Fluted Girl decides to instead offer the poisoned strawberry to lady Berali. While the story ends with a Cliffhanger, it also establishes early on how the lady loves strawberries and sweets.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The reason why women go through "prenatal" in Small Offerings, while alternative treatment exists? Bunch of government committees pushing paper between each other. For years. Considering the state of the world itself, not really that surprising, as it's implied being also the result of their stellar, governmental job.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Nigh-Invulnerability: One of the main themes of The People of Sand and Slag is how, by gaining the ability to survive pretty much anything (we are talking about breaking their spines, eating sand for food, and regrowing lost limbs within few hours), humanity lost absolutely any interest in or desire to preserve the world around it. Soon after, people became completely indifferent to each other, as the concept of causing harm no longer exists.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: All the stories take place in different versions of future Earth, which share one thing in common - humans managed to destroy it and now are either living on scraps left by the previous civilization or have augmented themselves so much that they no longer need a hospitable planet. If somehow the planet itself survived untouched, then it's at least a Dystopia Is Hard type of deal. Cruelty and indifference are the main themes of the collection.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Softer gets the full mileage out of a wife-killer trying to sort out what he has done and what should he feel about the murder he commited.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: Creo is working as Lalji's bodyguard. He's somewhere between 12 and 16. Nobody sees anything wrong with it.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Tingle, a "soft" stimulant from The Fluted Girl. And it gives you munchies for sweets. Whatever "Effy" is, Alvarez in Pump Six trips out on it so hard, his Inner Monologue turns into barely coherent rambling, as he tries to make sense out of his hallucinations and task at hand. There are other people going in the drug-inducted bliss non-stop, but since the whole society is on a verge of a complete collapse, nobody cares - and those who do care drug themselves out specifically to forget. Mez is some sort of alcohol distilled by Jai from a poisonous desert shrub. They never purify it fully, as the small dose of the toxin cause euphoria and may give hallucinations.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: Invoked verbatim in Small Offerings, when the two orderlies show up once the patient is already restrained and under control. As always.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: By the dozen. The world-building is almost entirely done with off-hand remarks in dialogues and tiny snippets of information in the narrative.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: A recurring setting for various stories, but most explicit in Pasho. It's about 1500 years since unspecified event, most likely a global war, known as "First Cleansing". As a direct result, the world regressed into Stone Age, then slowly started to rebuild from the ruins.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: One of the pillars of Jai culture, to the point where Gawar points out Raphael should just kill him if he feels insulted or fed up with their discussion, as that's the Jai way. In the end, that's exactly what happens, but rather than open murder, the young man poisons his grandfather.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_35566274	type	I Let You Win
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_35566274	comment	I Let You Win: Raphael led his grandfather into a lull, by pretending that he surrenders to the superior ways of Jai traditions and they share a drink over this. The mez he serves is a poison and the young man was from the start on a mission to either placate Gawar, or simply kill him if he won't drop his crusade against Keli.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_362461f6	comment	Stephen tries to call Lidia out on her loyal, head-down-mouth-shut servitude, but she eventually lashes back, pointing he's as much of a "toy" for lady Belari as she is. Maybe even more so than she is. He comes to his senses almost instantly.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Humanity developing complex spring mechanisms and using bio-engineered animals as source of power - muscle power - rather than, you know, using wind and watermills. Or turning all that grain into alcohol, which can run engines pretty well. It takes a hefty dose of Willing Suspension of Disbelief to take certain settings seriously.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Despite most of the stories taking place in Crapsack Worlds that are one-step away from completely falling apart, the final message of each of them tends to be optimistic, as if Bacigalupi was pulling his punches or trying to force a Happy Ending.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Subverted in Pump Six. The pumping station the entire region depends on to recycle all the toxic mutating waste - which would otherwise flood the area and generate no end of death and Body Horror - has been running for decades with minimal maintenance by an increasingly indifferent authority made out of increasingly stupider humans. As the pumps finally start to die, the resident tech - the only one to have a grasp on how serious the emergency is - discovers that they have been running way out of spec for far longer than they were meant to, with more and more malfunctions and alarms, until critical parts have begun to fail. And spares haven't been available in a long time...
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: In stories taking place Post-Peak Oil, technology is just plain weird. Genetically modified pack animals are powering massive capstans, transmitting mechanical energy to spring-based storage devices. Said springs are then used to power the engines of barges, transporting huge quantities of patented GMO seeds. Mandatory Zeppelins from Another World and clippers are the main means of long-range transportation. And let's not forget about computers being powered by treadles. While industrial complexes and factories still exist, they are just huge glorified sweat-shops, operating only during daylight, to save on the energy required for factory lights. Jai are a tribalistic culture of Proud Warrior Race Guys using iconic hook knives... and napalm, because screw those Keli thinking building cities over water is going to prevent being burned down. There are various other modern appliances used by the seemingly Bronze-Age culture of Jai, including radio. Considering the setting is Future Imperfect, they have just bits and pieces of technology and technological know-how of the pre-Cleansing world, applying them as their "traditions".
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Raphael serves Gawar poorly distilled mez, which is pure poison. Since mez poisoning is something that just happens from time to time, nobody is going to expect an assassination.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: In-universe of The Fluted Girl, the "commoners" within fiefs are considered this whenever they step up or even suggest that they are human beings. Rights? Objects don't have rights, how dare those things even question their lord, if they are being fed and not even hurt that bad lately?!
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While most stories end up with outright Downer Endings, in The Calorie Man, while Bowman is killed and his research data accidentally destroyed, Lalji realises the grain he's hauling is patent-free and fertile, so there is still a chance to plant it and make the old man's dream come true.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_424c9a9b	comment	Pretty much all lords and ladies in The Fluted Girl are bored, rich people that have complete control over their servants, including doing whatever they please with their bodies. For their own personal amusement, treating those people as nothing else than self-propelled toys at their disposal. Cold-Blooded Torture and terror are their standard way of instilling order and boy, oh boy, they are one vindictive bunch.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress: Keeping in theme with all the feudal and fairy-tale references, lady Belari is a beauty-and-immortality obsessed woman that will stop at nothing to retain her position. And since said position depends on being a forever young actress, and Revitia treatment is expensive...
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_44f6517d	comment	By all accounts Earth from The People of Sand and Slag is a toxic, barren wasteland that's unable to support any contemporary lifeforms. But since the characters in the story have been modified in a way that allows them to survive on the sand and slag of the title (and much worse things), they are absolutely unaware of how bad things around them are. One of the scenes takes place on a Hawaiian beach, describing in lovely detail the glistening of the oil in the dark ocean and the beach itself covered in so much debris there is barely any sand left - yet everyone treats it like a perfect Beach Episode, with great weather and all.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: In Pasho, Jai are this by default, always dividing people according to their tribe and affiliations. Taken to the extreme by the old Gawar, who is obsessed about keeping Jai and Jai ways pure, exterminating everyone else. He's eventually assassinated by his grandson, Raphael, to prevent yet another bloodbath.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_4afa0e25	type	Bio Punk
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_4afa0e25	comment	Bio Punk: All over the place. Augmentations, transgenic organisms, body modifications, MegaCorps based around genetic engineering and so on.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_4fc1a6c7	comment	No Points for Neutrality: The titular Pasho are given this treatment, since everyone assumes they have their own game and/or serve the other side of the ongoing conflict. Thus everyone has a mixture of respect for their knowledge and distrust due to claiming complete neutrality in any fight. Ultimately, Raphael is forced to take a side and kill his own grandfather.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_504a1991	comment	The Fluted Girl is about lords and their servants, managing the fief. Only this time around, everyone is bio-augmented into Body Horror and constantly fearful about stock prices failing.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_55554032	type	Irrational Hatred
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_55554032	comment	Irrational Hatred: Gawar in Pasho compulsively hates anything that doesn't follow (and follow them strictly) the traditions of his own tribe, to the point he sees nothing wrong in complete extermination of other peoples if he feels they threaten the Jai way of life.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_598c4d8a	comment	A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Gawar was himself trained as a Pasho in his youth. However, since he was unwilling to adopt peaceful ways and tried to join the order solely for gaining access to its vast knowledge for military conquest, he was politely asked to leave. He returned some time later. With an army of Jai and napalm to burn everything to the ground. He almost succeeded and is still the thing out of nightmares in the consciousness of both Pasho and Keli people.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Entire conversations full of it. It also lampshades how society has changed in each story, by no longer using specific terms or even knowing them.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Pump Six has Mercati, the very last actual maintenance worker of the pumping station. Always focused on the task and always doing his best to keep things running, against the complete indifference of everyone else. He's long dead by the time the story opens, but thankfully, managed to train Travis a bit before being eaten by cancer.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_66370e0d	type	Domesticated Dinosaurs
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_66370e0d	comment	Domesticated Dinosaurs: Not exactly dinosaurs, but the megodont is a bio-engineered organism combining elephant and mastodon DNA and used as a beast of burden.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Rather than silently enduring another round of cruelty and sexual abuse as her living sex toy, Stephen tried to kill lady Belari with a knife. As the story opens, her wounds still didn't heal properly despite all the future medicine has to offer. He also handles a vial of poison to Lidia if she ever wants to be "truly free", rather than being just another slave with a slightly longer leash.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_6651bba7	comment	The titular Fluted Girl is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. This includes having brass playing keys installed over the orifices. If that doesn't take it, then most of the servants are altered one way or another to satisfy the whims of lady Belari.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Softer is a very short story of a man mudering his wife in a random fit and wondering what to do next. No hi-tech, no futuristic stuff, no post-apo vibes. Just average Joe in his average life, in full horror glory.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_6760ff37	type	Secret Secret-Keeper
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: Travis from Pump Six can't stop eyeing at Maggie in her nightie, which exposes more than it covers. In fact, he's so distracted by her after waking up, it takes him a while to realise she's about to blow up their flat.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_689e667f	type	They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_689e667f	comment	They Don't Make Them Like They Used To: Played for some very, very dark laughs in Pump Six. The world doesn't have actual RagnarÃ¶k Proofing and the technology in it was predominately built in 2020s (which was 20 Minutes into the Future when the story was published), yet everyone treats it with semi-sacred admiration for how durable it is.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Weeviltech. Sure, a technology based on bio-engineered weevils... now read it syllable by syllable.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Burson in Fluted Girl has military-grade augmentations and training. He routinely appears and disappears in the thin air, further helped by his Chameleon Camouflage skin.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: How Jonathan murders Pia in the opening of Softer. It doesn't work as well as expected, since she thrashes for a really, really long time, desperately fighting for her life and even almost escaping at one point.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: A recurring trait is being from a working class background, but Travis Alvarez from Pump Six is the most shining example. He's the most intelligent and competent person in the entire city of New York... by the virtue of being a pipe repairman doing his duty and keeping the city sewage system running. And also thanks to being the only person from his generation that seems to care about anything other than his own physiological needs.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: What the old Gawar in Pasho claims to be "Jai way". Raphael corrects his grandfather it's "his way".
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8186d60d	type	Not Growing Up Sucks
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Averted. Pia's bladder empties when she's smothered to death with a pillow. Jonathan proceeds to give her dead body a bath due to this.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: Jai culture runs on this and constant evocation of Testosterone Poisoning. It is also a deconstruction of the whole concept: when you are raised in society that revels in combat and believes there is nothing better than slaughtering people you disagree with, you eventually become a burden and threat to everyone around you, while leaving nothing but ruin and despair in your wake. Doubly so when chasing after personal glory of being the most fearsome conqueror that ever lived.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: You can't just cleanse a woman's body from carcinogenic and toxic residues and then make her give birth to a healthy child, since her ova are already messed up. Ironically, this could work with semen, but the treatments from Small Offerings are explicitly about the condition of the mother's body.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: The Fluted Girl ends with one, just as Lidia is about to poison lady Berali.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Thanks to "weeviltech", humans from The People of Sand and Slag are virtually indestructible. The story opens with the main character jumping off a speeding aircraft without a parachute, breaking half of the bones in his body and smashing most of his internal organs. Equipment malfunction? Deranged suicidal action? Not at all: that's just how they routinely disembark when they're in a hurry. Said character promptly gets up as if nothing of note happened, the weeviltech fixing his body in a matter of moments. The story then examines how this kind of ability would affect humanity as a species.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_91e3910c	comment	Ruins of the Modern Age: Plentiful, all over the stories in the collection. New York falling apart, suburbs being completely deserted once there is no fuel to drive so far away from city center, holiday resorts being just piles of rubble, Bangkok being somewhere in the middle between huge sweat-shop and archeological site for the "ancient" tech...
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Brekkie bars (essentially a MRE ration in form of a bar), pockets of pre-brewed (and chemically heated) coffee and soda from Pump Six consists of nothing, but long list of chemicals. Not just as some additive or preserver, that's all that is in the package aside raw glucose and water. While there is still bacon (almost always in short supply, but so is everything else in the story), it's implied it's just as bad and deep-frozen with some quick-thaw liquid activating while taken out of the wrapper. Bagels are already made with plastic wrapping around them, that dissolves in your mouth. Anything even resembling regular food is nowhere to be seen. Not exactly food itself, but the only plants still growing are heavily-modified GMO crops in many stories. When Creo is given a real, natural tomato in The Calorie Man, he finds the concept of taste disgusting. Meanwhile Lalji, who is old enough to remember food before MegaCorps destroyed all non-GMO food, is in heaven when finally eating something other than tasteless corn and soy.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Gawar, the informal leader of Jai from Pasho, gets poisoned to make sure he won't organise another crusade that could potentially destroy the rebuilding civilization. Not only Keli will survive due to this, but Jai can be reformed into more peaceful and productive ways.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: While present in all stories, it's especially prominent in The People of Sand and Slag, where humanity is no longer even a biological lifeform and due to Nigh-Invulnerability it is absolutely indifferent to completely killing life on Earth. The planet is a toxic wasteland, where non-augmented life-forms can only survive in highly controlled and artificially maintained environments. But nobody cares.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: All the MegaCorps could make a real profit if they used their patented grain to get even more precious high-grade alcohol - a perfect fuel. Or even simpler, just get vegetable oil for diesel engines (which are weirdly absent). Instead, they prefer to use their monopoly simply to oppress everyone around the world.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Lidia and Nia had their own eyes removed and replaced with the dark eyes of some Indian girls. It's implied the owners of the black eyes were left with just a white stick.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a2c7a31	type	Internal Reformist
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a2c7a31	comment	Internal Reformist: Raphael's mission in Pasho is to either convince his grandfather to change his ways, or kill the old man and start to influence Jai from the inside, using the esteem surrounding the Pasho. Both rely on him being a Jai and knowing Jai, thus allowing him effortless infiltration, rather than being cast away or killed on sight.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Played With in The Fluted Girl. Some characters simply learned to pretend they are happy with their predictment. Others act in fear of punishment or retribution from other servants. And some are content with their position within the manor, because they know it could be much, much worse type of servitude.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: In Softer, everything is presented within Jonathan's stream of consciousness, so eventually he himself isn't even sure what happened and what he only thought about.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Fertility is a big issue in Pump Six. Most people just can't have a child. Those who do, usually go through entire string of miscarriages until giving up. The "lucky" few give birth to malformed, animalistic mutants.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Jonathan has one about rest of his life and all possible scenarios (often contradictory) awaiting for him and Pia when he starts to asphyxiate her.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: One of the early bits of Pasho circuits is about distillation of mez and Jai traditions related to it. The importance of Internal Reformist is also heavily stressed in their teachings, as people are more likely to follow their own kin.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Whatever happened in Pump Six's past, it left bunch of chemicals that were retired due to their toxicity in the 70s and 80s still in use. And somewhere, something really weird had happened, because Kali-Mary is a thing.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Naed Delhi is trapped for years within cybernetic emptiness. He's perfectly aware of the time flow, but he is deprived of any sensory stimulation aside knowing he's in some featurless void. Until he is contacted by outside world, he was there alone. Worst part is the fact he can't reincarnate, being trapped inside the data cube indefinitely.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: The main premise of "Pump Six" - the world is falling apart due to lack of maintenance, pollution and lethal levels of stupidity, but the few people that still are intelligent enough to notice are busy partying hard to forget how horrible everything around is.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Not exactly food itself, but the only plants still growing are heavily-modified GMO crops in many stories. When Creo is given a real, natural tomato in The Calorie Man, he finds the concept of taste disgusting. Meanwhile Lalji, who is old enough to remember food before MegaCorps destroyed all non-GMO food, is in heaven when finally eating something other than tasteless corn and soy.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Every story thrives on this trope. All the horrific and outright wrong elements of them are treated by everyone in-story as something perfectly natural and normal, if not boring. Be it extreme cruelty, wanton environmental destruction, widespread poverty or absolute lack of empathy.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Gawar is so extremely prideful and stubborn it's amazing he didn't trip over his own ego yet. This makes him completely and absolutely incapable of even trying to grasp world outside his own, intentionally narrow-minded perspective.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_ac0f4761	type	Future Imperfect
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_ac0f4761	comment	Future Imperfect: In Pasho not much of original knowledge about pre-Cleansing world remains, even less about the dark age that followed. A lot of things were also reduced to semi-religious rites and tradition behaviours. Quaran is nothing more than a superstition-influenced quarantine, with rites around it mimicking a separation process of a contaminated individual.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Played With in Pump Six. Travis Alvarez is narrating the whole story from his point of view. While he's just an average Joe, by the standards of society around him he has genius-level intellect and is the sharpest guy in the town.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Pump Six is probably the least known and most definitely the least praised of all the stories, while it provides the title for the anthology. In Small Offerings a woman is giving a birth: under heavy sedation, with so much anesthesia she's numb chest-down and with all her contractions being induced by another drug. Then this line comes up.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Widespread to the point some reviewers call it "Paolo Bacigalupi plot template" when talking about his short stories. Notable examples include: In Pump Six Travis figures out what's really wrong with the titular pump. He reads all the print-outs and collects long list of information needed to fix it. Despite the producer going out of business before he was even born, he has a "Eureka!" Moment to simply contact the engineering department of Columbia University to help him out, as this is an emergency and all the blueprints are public domain anyway... until he visits the campus. All the buildings are deserted, the faculty is long retired or dead, while the "students" are just scions of the rich families having a never-ending orgy on the university grounds. And he learns there that everyone is a trog at this point. In The Calorie Man Bowman is revealed as one of the old geneticists, who spent the last few years recreating fertile seeds, while giving them all the positive capabilities of the patented variety. He has all the knowledge and his computer stores all the data in case anything happens to him. Cue a random sweep by the corporation guards - Bowman ends up dead, while the computer is accidentally thrown overboard during the short fight.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Whatever "Effy" is, Alvarez in Pump Six trips out on it so hard, his Inner Monologue turns into barely coherent rambling, as he tries to make sense out of his hallucinations and task at hand. There are other people going in the drug-inducted bliss non-stop, but since the whole society is on a verge of a complete collapse, nobody cares - and those who do care drug themselves out specifically to forget.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Those wicked Keli eat fishes and their women wear silver belts rather than golden bracelets. Better murder them all to preserve the purity of Jai.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: The reason why nobody does anything about their falling-apart society and infrastructure in Pump Six is because those few people left to care and know what to do prefer to be consciously ignorant about everything around them. When Alvarez gets called out on his own ignorance, he gets genuinely scared by reality around him, realising how many things he allowed to just slide by as "someone's else problem".
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: Extensively discussed in Pasho, along with importance of having writing as such to preserve knowledge of the past for future generations. Gawar's biggest desire is to wipe out all his enemies and make sure that in the future only Jai are remembered... while constantly giving Keli crap for "eroding" other tribes with their wicked influences.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite The many, many traditions of Jai and their point of view are ripe with hypocrisy, as they both condemn various actions of other tribes, but do the exact same thing (or worse) without batting an eye. Gawar takes it to a logical extreme. Stephen tries to call Lidia out on her loyal, head-down-mouth-shut servitude, but she eventually lashes back, pointing he's as much of a "toy" for lady Belari as she is. Maybe even more so than she is. He comes to his senses almost instantly.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: Pump Six takes place somewhere in the 2130s. Humanity is cruising solely on the momentum built three-four generations ago, if not earlier. They are all depending on machines they can't build or maintain (to the point of getting glass for windows is impossible) and the people in charge are completely indifferent toward it. Unlike Idiocracy (which the story is shamelessly ripping off for its comedic bits), there is no advanced automation nor AI to still keep things running, so once the last few people that care about maintenance retire or die, the whole system is going to crash down the very next day.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e1b2070b	type	Chameleon Camouflage
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e1b2070b	comment	Chameleon Camouflage: Thanks to his augmentations, skin of Burson from The Fluted Girl does this on its own. He has zero control over the ability, it just happens.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Bowman is the very last geneticist alive in The Calorie Man. The stray dog from The People of Sand and Slag might be the very last specimen living in the wild, bordering on Dying Race. The sheer damage and toxicity its body sustained makes it too weak to survive weeviltech implants, making it even more unique.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: In Pocketful of Dharma, a data cube accidently acquired by Wang Jun contains consciousness of Naed Delhi, the 19th Dalai Lama. And there will be no 20th one, ever, as long as his soul remains trapped in the electronic medium, thus being unable to reincarnate. Only the destruction of the cube can release him free. The data cube becomes a MacGuffin that everyone wants to get for their own schemes.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Yellow Card Man is foreshadowing future issues with The Windup Girl. It has almost no relation to actual Malay-Chinese names. Or Thai ones, for that matter. It's especially jarring, given how in other stories, at least names are properly researched for the supposed ethnicity of the characters.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: What Pasho Raphael tries to do with his grandfather, slowly breaking to him how much hypocrisy and contradictions is in his beliefs. It doesn't take in the slightest.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: There are various evil characters in the collection, but most of them are either cogs in the bigger system, very impersonal threats or government-tier organisations that are also just doing their job. Enter old Gawar from Pasho: an obsessive Proud Warrior Race Guy that just can't stand the sheer concept that something might be different than his own set of beliefs or serve other purpose than making his tribe the greatest and toughest warriors ever. He's very, very old and won't live for much longer, yet does his very best to Salt the Earth for future generations, just to make sure they will be just as tough as he is. Any non-Jai people? Slaughter those worthless weaklings, who even cares, compassion is not Jai way. His irrational hatred is so fierce and revolting, it's hard to just read his lines.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: The concept of barges hauling grain downstream with no additional speed than current just can't work. To have any form of maneuverability, a boat must move faster than the waterflow. Just moving with the current would put a barge on a shore at the first bend in the river and make it act like a spinning top.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: If you somehow didn't notice, Bacigalupi is an environmental activist.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_eb45a36	type	Stewed Alive
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_eb45a36	comment	Stewed Alive: The ultimate fate of Stephen in The Fluted Girl. The sweetened meat served at the banquet is his. And it's strongly suggested he was kept conscious through the punishment.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: The grandfather from Pasho. He's an obsessive xenophobe and hates with passion everything that isn't from his tribe and follow traditions of his tribe. In his youth he organised a disastrous crusade that almost wiped out the rebuilding civilization. And he's preparing another one, just to assure a lasting legacy of a conqueror and keeping his people "pure".
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Played straight with each separate story, but there is still Maggie and Travis, the couple from Pump Six and then there is Maggie the camel and Travis the other tamarisk hunter, from The Tamarisk Hunter.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Maggie is nice-looking and dumb as bricks. The story opens with her checking for an ongoing gas-leak in a kitchen stove with a lighter. It takes her few minutes to realise what could have happen and that's only after brutally assaulting Travis for interrupting her "repair". And previously she tried to fix an electric outlet with a fork.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_f4cc32ce	comment	Creepy Twins: Lidia and Nia from The Fluted Girl, thanks to what was done to their bodies. Even if the fluting itself is ignored, they were still leached of all pigment, are perpetually stuck in the appearance of twelve-year-olds (despite being adult) and got their eyes replaced with those of others', completely not matching the rest of their ethereal appearance for in-universe shock value. The fact that their musical exhibition involves them singing each other's bodies with distinctly erotic undertones, with it clearly stated that other shows are far more explicit, doesn't help.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: Pasho examines a very specific take on the trope: the science by itself isn't bad, quite the contrary. It's the "quickly quickly, like ants" way of studying and applying new technologies, without a second of reflection on their effects, that leads to misery and war. Given how in-universe it leads to The Cleansing, which destroyed human civilization and almost managed to wipe out human race itself, with residual damage still being around, the cautious nature of applying "new" technology is justified. Especially when one side sees no other applications than war.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_fb9e2ffd	comment	Team Pet: Subverted with the dog from The People of Sand and Slag - after realising how much hassle it is to keep one around and not willing to pay for it, the characters decide to eat the dog instead. Then the main character comments how he can't see what's so special about eating organic food.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Tranh was once wealthy head of the multi-national "Three Prosperities" trading company. Now he's a homeless refugee in a future Bangkok. And it's a common situation for Malay-Chinese people in the story, with the city filled with extremely overqualified people doing menial jobs - if they are lucky enough to get one in the first place.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The Calorie Man has a complex, wind-up mechanism used to store mechanical energy and calories derived from grain are being used specifically as means to power cranking mechanisms by bio-engineered draft animals. Such set-up would be extremely inefficient mechanically, wasting almost all of the energy during transfer and "storage".
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_fe98b14e	comment	Stupid Future People: Pump Six is The Marching Morons without eugenics involved. The handful of people with anything even resembling intellect are doing their very best to maintain the world populated by lethally stupid humanity, only to get more and more tired and less and less caring in the process.
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Pump Six and Other Stories / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Lady Belari not only used to be just a commoner like everyone else as a child, but went through the entire cycle of abuse herself. This includes almost being snatched by a paedophile wearing a brainwashing cologne. However, as traumatic as her past has been, she's still an unsympathetic character.
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