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
math winning cities
At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.
average wish hazards
All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.
looks bleak bits
The future looks a bit bleak to me.
fighting battle cowardice
I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
ocean rising
When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
real stitches toys
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
interesting stories want
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
tattoo baby hate
No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.
cities flying bullets
She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.
thinking mad made
Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
culture alive
The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
breathing gold blame
They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.
running pain yield
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.
strong writing ignorant
Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.