Paolo Bacigalupi

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Paolo Bacigalupi
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Bacigalupi at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Born (1972-08-06) August 6, 1972 (age 52)
Paonia, Colorado, USA
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Period 1999–present
Genre Biopunk, science fiction, young-adult novels
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Website
windupstories.com

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

He has won the Hugo, Nebula,[1] Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the environmental journal High Country News. His non-fiction essays have appeared in Salon.com and High Country News, and have been syndicated in newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Salt Lake Tribune. He was a webmaster for High Country News starting in 2003.

His short fiction has been collected in Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008). His debut novel The Windup Girl, published by Night Shade Books in September 2009, won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2010.[2] The Windup Girl was also named by Time as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009.[3] Ship Breaker, published by Little, Brown in 2010, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for best young adult novel and was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[4]

Themes

The Windup Girl, along with many of his short stories, explores the effects of bioengineering and a world in which fossil fuels are no longer viable. Bioengineering has ravaged the world with food-borne plagues, produced tailored organisms as mimics to both cats and humans, and replaced today's fossil-fuel reliant engines with megodonts (an elephant-like beast), which convert food energy into work. Energy storage is accomplished through the use of high-capacity springs, as well as simply transporting food to feed either megodonts or human labourers. His writing deals with the ethics and possible ramifications of genetic engineering and western dominance, as well as the nature of humanity and a world in which, despite drastic changes, people remain essentially the same. Similar themes run through his book The Water Knife, where a future American Southwest is reduced to a dystopian Dust Bowl where water is a guarded commodity for the wealthy and powerful interests.[5]

Awards and nominations

  • 2012: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Novel for The Windup Girl, Hayakawa Publishing Corp, 2011.[12]
  • 2013: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Short Story for "Pocketful of Dharma" (Pump Six and Other Stories, Hayakawa Publishing Corp, 2012) [13]
  • 2015: Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for 'The Doubt Factory', Little, Brown 2014.

Works

Novels

Collections

  • Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008)

Novellas

Short stories

  • "Pocketful of Dharma" (1999)
  • "The Fluted Girl" (2003)
  • "The People of Sand and Slag" (2004)
  • "The Pasho" (2004)
  • "The Calorie Man" (2005)
  • "The Tamarisk Hunter" (2006)
  • "Pop Squad" (2006)
  • "Yellow Card Man" (2006)
  • "Softer" (2007)
  • "Small Offerings" (2007)
  • "Pump Six" (2008)
  • "The Gambler" (2008)
  • "Moriabe's Children" (2014)
  • "Shooting the Apocalypse" (2014)
  • "A Hot Day's Night" (2015)

Audiobook

See also

References

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