Paolo Bacigalupi's Blog

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.

Exact dates, times and locations below. Hope to see you there!

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I’ve got a new book coming out in July. Navola is the story of Davico di Regulai, heir to both the wealth and the intrigues of his family’s merchant banking empire.  This was a labor of love for me, and a secret project for many years.  I’m very happy to see it taking final form. You can pre-order from your local bookstore or through any of the stores listed below.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708812/navola-by-paolo-bacigalupi/

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I’m going to be one of the judges for  Grist.org’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Writing Contest. All the details on the contest and how to submit are here: https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/

I’ve often heard from people that I write too many depressing stories about the future, and I understand that criticism.I firmly believe that science fiction can play a role in shaping a positive future by giving us ideas of how to live, what to build, how to construct societies, create new technologies, and how utilize current technologies in better ways.

I also believe that if all we write is apocalypse, we start to believe in apocalypse, even though it doesn’t yet exist, and doesn’t have to.

By imagining better futures, and by telling stories that allow us to exist inside of those futures– to imagine them, to believe in them– it allows us to lean toward them, to have faith that better futures can exist. These stories of smarter, more clever, more efficient, more inspiring futures, also give us the first parts of a map for building toward them. They point the direction for the work we need to do, whether as citizens, as engineers, as parents, as stewards of this planet, or as caretakers of one another, and they help us steer away from the futures we don’t want.

So send us your story about a sustainable technology, a sustainable culture, and a sustainable world. Help us lean into the future, instead of hiding from it. The deadline is June 13, 2023.

So get writing!

Submit your story to Grist.org’s climate fiction contest.

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TIME Magazine has named SHIP BREAKER as one of the Top 100 Young Adult Novels of all time. I loved writing this book and I’m honored that the panel of judges considered it worthy of recognition.

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It’s part of Love, Death + Robots Season 2, and it looks great. Vulture had a positive review of it as well. https://www.vulture.com/article/love-death-and-robots-volume-2-netflix-best-worst-episodes.html

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I was recently invited to share some thoughts about the future of water with RadioWest and KUER.  You can hear my dire prognostications along with some very smart discussion about our water future here:

Megadroughts, Pt. 3: The Future

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Three years ago, I wrote a short story called “American Gold Mine,” about news for profit. Last year, it was published in the Oct/Nov Issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

For a long time, I’ve been troubled by the the trends I’ve been seeing in the way news is reported, and how it’s monetized. It’s why I wrote “The Gambler” a decade ago.  “American Gold Mine” is another attempt at the same puzzle, from another angle.

I still feel like I’m trying to find the shape of our future, much like the blind man feeling the elephant.  I don’t have any illusions that I’ve comprehended the whole shape, but given events over the last year, it seems like I might have caught the tail.

Read “American Gold Mine“

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I’m doing what should be a very cool event with Patricia Limerick on Water in the West this September.

Very pleased to hear this news.

From Locus:

“SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf; Orbit UK)

Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK)

Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)

A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)”

2016 Locus Awards Finalists

Wednesday, June 3: SALT LAKE CITY

7:00 p.m. — The King’s English, 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105. Reading/talk, Q&A, and book signing.

Thursday, June 4: PHOENIX

7:00 p.m. — Changing Hands Bookstore – Phoenix, 300 W. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85013. Reading/talk, Q&A, and book signing.

Friday, June 5: PETALUMA

7:00 p.m.– Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky St., Petaluma, CA 94952. Talk/reading, Q&A and book signing.

Saturday, June 6: BERKELEY

3:00 p.m. — Bay Area Literary Festival Panel – “Futurism, Fatalism, and Climate Change”, at the Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.

Sunday, June 7: BERKELEY

12:15 p.m. — Bay Area Book Festival, Solo event at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94704. Talk/reading, audience Q&A, book signing.

Sunday, June 7: SAN FRANCISCO

3:00 p.m. — Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110. Reading/talk, Q&A, and book signing.

Monday, June 8: SAN DIEGO

7:30 p.m. — Mysterious Galaxy, 5493 Balboa Ave (Ste 100), San Diego, CA 92111. Talk/reading, Q&A, and book signing.

Tuesday, June 9: LOS ANGELES

7:00 p.m. — Vroman’s, 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101. Talk/reading, Q&A, and book signing.

Wednesday, June 10: PORTLAND

7:00 p.m. — Powell’s Bookstore, Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, OR. Talk/reading, Q&A, and book signing.

Thursday, June 11: SEATTLE

7:00 p.m. — University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Reading/talk, Q&A, and book signing.

Thursday, June 18: CRESTED BUTTE

6:00 p.m.– Rumors Coffee and Tea House, 414 Elk Ave, Crested Butte, CO 81224. Talk/reading, Q&A and book signing.