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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
compelling food interested supply
I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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.