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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.
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
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Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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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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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
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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.
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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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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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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.
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Blood is not destiny.
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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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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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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.
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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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