Paolo Bacigalupi





Paolo Bacigalupi

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Paolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. It has been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy, nominated for three Nebula and five Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best sf short story of the year.

His debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009, and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. His short story collection PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES was a 2008 LOCUS Award winner for Best Collection and also named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His novel SHIP BREAKER won the 2011 Michael L. ...more


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For those of you with an ebook reader, my novella "The Alchemist," is now available in DRM-free ebook formats.


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"The Alchemist" originally started as a fun side project with my fellow author and friend, Tobias Buckell; we were both interested in writing something different from our normal work, and hadn't tried writing fantasy before. We created the world together, and...

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Average rating: 3.77 · 18,412 ratings · 4,133 reviews · 28 distinct works
The Windup Girl
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 8,172 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 6,462 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Pump Six and Other Stories
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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The Alchemist
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2010
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The Drowned Cities (Ship Break...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions
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The Fluted Girl
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2006
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The Calorie Man
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Yellow Card Man
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011
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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

“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

“Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.”
Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

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