Bacigalupi Paolo. Yellow Card Man

Paolo Bacigalupi recently won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for his short story The Calorie Man, and that same tale is, at this writing, a finalist for the 2006 Hugo Award. The author tells us the pitiless future of the Yellow Card Man was an outgrowth from an aborted novel. In his latest story, Tranh, who began existence as one of the book’s supporting characters, must use any means available to survive in this ruthless and precarious future.