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Paolo Bacigalupi

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The United States

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http://windupstories.com

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Science Fiction, Short Stories, Science

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Paolo Bacigalupi is an award-winning author of novels for adults and young people.

His debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009, and also won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Internationally, it has won the Seiun Award (Japan), The Ignotus Award (Spain), The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany), and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France).

His debut young adult novel, SHIP BREAKER, was a Micheal L. Printz Award Winner, and a National Book Award Finalist, and its sequel, THE DROWNED CITIES, was a 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best of YA Book, A 2012 VOYA Perfect Ten Book, and 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. The final book in the series, TOOL OF WAR, wil ...more

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In light of new GMO technology like Golden Rice (a winner of the 2015 Patents for Humanity Award by the United States Patent and Trademark Office), and its potential to save lives in starving countries, have you adjusted your opinions of GMOs? What do you think of companies like Monsanto and Syngenta giving away these patents for free for humanitarian reasons? Will you address these issues in your future work?

Paolo Bacigalupi I haven't really. GMO's, much like any technology, are simply a reflection of us. Overall, I think something like Golden Rice is more of a PR wedge to…moreI haven't really. GMO's, much like any technology, are simply a reflection of us. Overall, I think something like Golden Rice is more of a PR wedge to drive acceptance for other patented, modified, profit-oriented seeds in the future. Some of those are very likely to be useful or beneficial in some way.

But I'll add a caveat that whoever controls these technologies will have specific agendas of their own. Monsanto and Syngenta, aren't, at root, in the business of feeding people; they're in the business of maximizing profits. How they go about that in the future may not be in humanity's best interest. I tend to be cynical about profit-driven companies that beat the drum of human relief, while also being the same companies that developed the Terminator gene.

At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has the potential to improve our lives, wound it, and also to create unexpected accidents. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's us, the users. However angelic or demonic, or thoughtful or thoughtless we happen to be is then amplified by our technologies.

I continue to think that GMO's represent a complexity that we don't yet fully comprehend, so I expect that there will be some surprises that come out of them. (less)

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Ker Gibbs Laurel, you bring helpful facts, and I can tell that you have a reasoned opinion. But please... read Windup Girl. It won't give you facts that counter ...more
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Julian @Paolo thanks for sharing your answer (and for your great books!). I just wanted to add that it would actually be borderline insane for Monstanto to n ...more
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Donna Church A key issue with GMO crops is also their impact on indigenous crops. Also, if those with terminator genes cross-pollinate with regular seeds, after a ...more
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Are you planning on revisiting the post-GMO-apocalyptical world of The Windup Girl in another novel sometime? It's a scary and intriguing world, but I'd love to read more about it!

Paolo Bacigalupi At some point, I probably will go back to it. But if I do, it won't be to follow Emiko, as I feel like I've taken her story as far as I can. Most like…moreAt some point, I probably will go back to it. But if I do, it won't be to follow Emiko, as I feel like I've taken her story as far as I can. Most likely, I would shift focus to India. I've always wondered what mischief characters like Richard Carlyle, Tan Hock Seng, and Mai might get up to. And after exploring a country like Thailand, which has resisted the calorie companies, I think I'd like to explore a country that has instead completely been taken over by them. It's something I continue to mull. (less)

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Average rating: 3.79 · 207,945 ratings · 22,910 reviews · 127 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating — 76,186 ratings — published 2009 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 44,466 ratings — published 2010 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water Knife 3.85 avg rating — 26,808 ratings — published 2015 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 11,108 ratings — published 2012 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pump Six and Other Stories 4.04 avg rating — 8,637 ratings — published 2008 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alchemist 3.73 avg rating — 2,975 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tool of War (Ship Breaker, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 2,442 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 2,348 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doubt Factory 3.40 avg rating — 2,248 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zombie Baseball Beatdown 3.60 avg rating — 1,304 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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First up, Colorado: Boulder, Fort Collins, Crested Butte, and Paonia. (later in August I’m also circling back to Durango). Then we branch out across the country: Portland, Seattle, Boston, Washington DC, Brooklyn, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. I’m also doing a few events in the UK in August around Worldcon. I’ll get those dates up as I have them.

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“Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker

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“I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker

tags: chess, i-dunno-i-just-like-this-quote, lucky-girl, nita, pawn, quote, ship-breaker

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“We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

tags: inspirational, life, nature, potential

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Polls

JULY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two novels move on the run-off poll for our July 2012 SF Book of the Month

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

27 votes, 28.4%

Sundiver by David Brin

20 votes, 21.1%

Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress

12 votes, 12.6%

Today We Choose Faces by Roger Zelazny

9 votes, 9.5%

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

8 votes, 8.4%

In the Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda

5 votes, 5.3%

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

4 votes, 4.2%

Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree Jr.

4 votes, 4.2%

Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick

3 votes, 3.2%

Equations of Life by Simon Morden

3 votes, 3.2%

95 total votes

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