Interview paolo bacigalupi biography
Born in Western Colorado and raised on a fifteen-acre farm, Paolo Bacigalupi attended Oberlin College, where he decided to major in Chinese.!
Paolo Bacigalupi: Chilling Worlds of Warning
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Paolo Bacigalupi spoke with Colorado Matters about the journey the protagonist in his novel took and his own journey while writing it.
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Paolo Bacigalupi is the award winning author of The Water Knife, The Windup Girl, the YA Ship Breaker series, The Doubt Factory, and many, many short stories. He was recently in Denver to celebrate the release of The Water Knife in paperback.
Paolo and Fiction Unbound’s CS Peterson sat down over a cup of coffee to talk about the power of science fiction, inspirations, and the writing process.
CS Peterson: There is a theme that comes up again and again as I read your work.
It’s this feeling that the characters within these worlds, under stress, desperate to survive, are struggling to get a grasp on the big picture and failing. Hock Seng, the yellow card man in The Windup Girl, is reeling from the loss of his life before the purge, trying to understand and play all the angles in his present chaos.
Maria’s dad in The Water Knife talks about how the world was before the drought and dies unabl