I’m definitely writing my fears. It’s almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, ‘I’m worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.’ Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
I didn’t think of myself as writing ‘cli-fi,’ but I’ll take the label. I’ll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
I don’t know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can’t, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I’m fascinated by that choice. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences – large scale engineering, neuroscience. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
I think the fact that we, as writers, don’t engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don’t know where our stuff comes from. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
As far as ‘Windup Girl’ becoming a hit – none of us expected that. ‘Night Shade’ was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn’t sell, so all of our expectations were very low. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
Originally, ‘The Windup Girl’ started as a short story – a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn’t work very well. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential – up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
I’m particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. Paolo Bacigalupi Read Quote
