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The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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