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
advanced developed highly societies society tend
I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
audience books fans full
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
country decided human people portray
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
adult category science terms
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
format good stories tells visceral
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
chinese man met
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
came liked sell
The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
certain large obsessions scale science
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
area human people somewhere
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
bangkok work
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
mostly
Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
destroy interested surprises swan wisdom
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
deciding narratives time until
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.