Dystopia. Corporate control of most agricultural products, and the corporations rule the world through their control over the food supply. The story focuses on an attempt to help a geneticist spread free seeds. 2006 \"Yellow Card Man\" and 2009 Bacigalupi are\ set in the same future.
}, year = {2005}, journal = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = { 109.4 \& 5 (644) }, pages = {8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18-44}, month = {10/2005}, issn = {00024-984X }, note = {Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2006), 32-54; in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 337-66; and \ Bacigalupi\’s Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 93-121.
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