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The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
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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Paonia
Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to respect but never yield to. Pain was simply a message, telling him which limbs he could still use to slaughter his enemies, how far he could still run, and what his chances were in the next battle.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
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The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
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Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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