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
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.
covered coworkers local reporting work
I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
clear fiction fictional future goes label looking might moment outward particular science trend work
I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
alone complex failing failure interested political smallest solve together work
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
work-out surfing green
Maybe because we're photosynthesizing we'll do more work outside. So our laptops will have to get rid of these damn glossy screens that have become so popular. And then we'll sit around outside, sucking up sun, getting fat and green, and surfing the net.
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.