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
care stranger innocent
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
games chess-game chess-pieces
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
father men oil
Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?
successful tears lines
It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
sake should profit
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
two evil benefits
Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
debt burden heavy
Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
differences choices culture
At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.
military real fighting
They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.
poetic creation something-new
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
law paper ease
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
eye people stories
Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.
suicide
Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
long-ago approval humans
If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.