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 and selfishness and environmental devastation, and that's
all he writes about. Two of the stories in
Pump Six are from the same world as
The Windup Girl, and most of the others easily could be. He's a good writer, but I'd really like to see him open up a bigger toolbox.