“ 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
“ I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. Paolo Bacigalupi
“ Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. 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. 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. 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… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the garments of fertility for a century, pretending to greenery and growth as they mined glacial water f… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ 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
“ 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 pote… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their ava… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ It’s still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we’d be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red C… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank? Paolo Bacigalupi
“ They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you. Paolo Bacigalupi
“ The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree to sleep. And in the morning, it woke with her and clung to her back, rid… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ No one else could see all the bodies she’d left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was just her, looking at herself, and not liking what she saw. Knowing she could never escape… Paolo Bacigalupi
“ Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness. Paolo Bacigalupi
