Andreas asked Paolo Bacigalupi:

Hello Paolo, I love your short stories and "Pump Six" or "The Gambler" are among my favorites. Can we expect new short stories from you?

Paolo Bacigalupi Thank you! I love writing short stories, and often they're the place where I test out ideas that eventually become novels. "The Tamarisk Hunter" eventually morphed into THE WATER KNIFE, just as "The Calorie Man" and "Yellow Card Man" eventually morphed into THE WINDUP GIRL. So yes, I do continue to write them. Recently I've written "Moriable's Children" which appeared in the collection MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS, and also two stories set in the Water Knife universe - "Shooting the Apocalypse" which appears in Hugh Howey's END IS NIGH anthology, and "A Hot Day's Night," which recently appeared in the news magazine High Country News. https://www.hcn.org/issues/47.1/a-hot....

Now that THE WATER KNIFE is finished, I'm hoping to do several other short stories, as I'm looking to experiment again, and start scoping out some new ideas.

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I've read that you haven't been able to write full-time until the last few years. How did you balance your work with your writing before then? How much and how consistently did you write before you began publishing successfully?

Datruedave asked Paolo Bacigalupi:

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!

A Goodreads user asked Paolo Bacigalupi:

Hello, Paolo! Have you ever signed books at a B&N in Greenwood, Indiana? I bought The Drowned Cities there (I loved The Ship Breakers) and to my surprise, once I got home and opened it-- it was signed! I've always been curious if you were actually there or if it was signed stock that just happened to be shipped there. Just curious! =) Thank you!! (and btw, I also loved The Drowned Cities)

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Hello Paolo, I love your short stories and "Pump Six" or "The Gambler" are among my favorites. Can we expect new short stories from you?

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I've read that you haven't been able to write full-time until the last few years. How did you balance your work with your writing before then? How much and how consistently did you write before you began publishing successfully?

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!

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