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. Printz Award...more


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It’s been a good news week.


I learned that THE DROWNED CITIES is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. I’m of course pleased. I’m particularly moved because the process of writing DC was so difficult, and the resulting book is the first one I’ve written that I’ve felt unreservedly proud of. In a lot of ways I feel like it’s my best book, and it still affects me when I read it on tours. So,...

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Average rating: 3.76 · 48,957 ratings · 7,612 reviews · 49 distinct works · Similar authors
The Windup Girl
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 20,738 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker,...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 16,080 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions
The Drowned Cities (Ship Br...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,879 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions
Pump Six and Other Stories
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 2,285 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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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

“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

“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

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