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
amazing books cool kids reluctant
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
adult concept fictional fits impression kids love science talk tied
When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
reading kids technology
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out-it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.
across based chinese controlled form knows newspapers run somewhat stations stories
Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.
almost definitely low worried
I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.'
adult backed books course fear great pacing somewhat
I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
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.