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Paolo Bacigalupi


American
August 6, 1972
Writer
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.


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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.


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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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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.
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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.
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
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