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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

Tags: work, alone, together

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...

Paolo Bacigalupi

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...

Tags: advancements, humans, imperfection, life, technology

About Author
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and has been nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the environmental journal High Country News. Nonfiction essays of his have appeared in Salon.com and High Country News, and have been syndicated in newspapers, including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and The Salt Lake Tribune.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Tags: engineering, fiction

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Tags: smile, great, liar

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Tags: world, black, surprises

Back home, we can't kill them fast enough, he says. Even Grahamites offer blue bills for their skins. Probably the only thing they've ever done that I agreed with.Mmm, yes. Emiko's brow wrinkles thoug...

Paolo Bacigalupi

Back home, we can't kill them fast enough, he says. Even Grahamites offer blue bills for their skins. Probably the only thing they've ever done that I agreed with.Mmm, yes. Emiko's brow wrinkles thoug...