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
confusing desires follow gotten next people proceed produce publishers sort
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
entertain novelists published
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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.
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.
engage society stuff symptom
I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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.
riding ghost problem
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
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?
debt burden heavy
Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.