Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupiis an American science fiction and fantasy writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 August 1972
CountryUnited States of America
ugly news environment
Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.
reading
When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
fun military book
For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.
reading writing trying
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
writing procrastination trying
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
children loss talking
Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.
scorpions trouble
An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
leadership men loyal
Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
life two four
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
sex coffee hypocrisy
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
lying ocean sides
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
writing blow dust
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
trends stories world
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
stupid rivers desert
A desert's a stupid place to put a river.