Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was 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. His non-fiction essays 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. He was a webmaster for High Country News starting in 2003.

His short fiction has been collected in Pump Six and Other Stories . His debut novel The Windup Girl, published by Night Shade Books in September 2009, won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2010. The Windup Girl was also named by Time as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009. Ship Breaker, published by Little, Brown in 2010, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for best young adult novel and was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

✵ 6. August 1972
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Famous Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

“Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.”

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 41

“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”

"The Pasho", Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004

Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

“If you bargain when they squeeze your balls, they will only squeeze again.”

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 94

“A desert's a stupid place to put a river.”

"The Tamarisk Hunter", High Country, 26 June 2006

“Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.”

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 280

“Nothing is certain—that is the first lesson.”

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 67

“An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.”

"The Pasho", in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004

“If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.”

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 159

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