Books & Short Stories
Books
A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist written by authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell.
2019 Winner of The World Fantasy Award for Best Collection
(2018 Gallery / Saga Press)
Tool, a half-man/half-beast designed for combat, is capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed… A gripping, eerily prescient story of the most provocative character from Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.
(October 2017, Little, Brown Books)
A story of climate change, drought, and water politics set in the American Southwest, loosely based in the same world as the short story “The Tamarisk Hunter.”
(Spring 2015, Knopf)
Explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped.
(2014, Little Brown Books)
The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters...ZOMBIES!!! (2013, Little Brown Books)
Mahlia and Mouse struggle to survive in the war-torn territories of the Drowned Cities but when a bio-engineered half-man crashes into their lives, their fragile existence is threatened. (2012, Little Brown Books)
Los Angels Times Book Prize Finalist
Nailer Lopez labors as a scavenger of the Accelerated Age, tearing apart ancient oil tankers and freighters. When a hurricane-wrecked clipper ship washes onto his shores, he’s faced with a deadly choice. (2010, Little Brown Books)
National Book Award Finalist, Michael L Printz Award Winner, LOCUS Award Winner
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s man in Thailand… (2009, Night Shade Books)
Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award Winner, John W. Campbell Award Winner, LOCUS Award Winner, TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of the Year
Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Includes most of his short stories to date, plus a new original for the collection. (2008, Night Shade Books)
The Locus Award-winning collection includes stories which have received 3 Hugo Award nominations, 1 Nebula Award nomination, won the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Award and the Asimov’s Readers Choice Award.
Partial List of Short Stories
The short stories listed below published before 2008, with the exception of “The Gambler”, can by found in Pump Six and Other Stories.
"Efficiency"
2021, Cities of Light. Grist.org read online
"A Full Life"
2019, MIT Technology Review read online
"American Goldmine"
2019, Fantasy and Science Fiction
"Fixable"
2019, Futurescapes Anthology
"A Passing Sickness"
2017, Xprize read online
"Mika Model"
2015, Slate.com read online
"City of Ash"
2015, Medium.com read online
"A Hot Days Night"
2015, High Country News read online
"Shooting the Apocalypse"
2014, John Joseph Adams
"Moriabe's Children"
2014, Science Fiction and Fantasy
"The Alchemist"
July 2010, Audible.com
Nebula Award Nominee for Novella
October 2008, Fast Forward 2
Hugo Award Finalist
Year’s Best Science Fiction 26th Annual Collection
The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year Volume 3
"Pump Six"
February 2008, Pump Six and Other Stories
Locus Award Winner
The Year’s Best SF 14
"Softer"
March 2007, Logorrhea – Good Words Make Good Stories
"Small Offerings"
February 2007, Fast Forward 1 – Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge
"Yello Card Man"
December 2006, Asimov’s Science Fiction
Hugo Award Finalist
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist
Year’s Best Science Fiction 24th Annual Collection
The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year Volume 1
"Pop Squad"
October/November 2006, Fantasy & Science Fiction
June 26, 2006, High Country News
"The Calorie Man"
October/November 2005, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award WINNER
Science Fiction: The Best of 2005
Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
Hugo Award Finalist
"The Pasho"
September 2004, Asimov’s Science Fiction
February 2004, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Science Fiction: The Best of 2004
Year’s Best Science Fiction 22nd Annual Collection.
Hugo Award Finalist
Nebula Award Finalist
June 2003, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Science Fiction: The Best of 2003
Year’s Best Science Fiction 21st Annual Collection.
Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 17th Annual Collection.
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalist
"Pocketful of Dharma"
February 1999, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction