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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

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Paolo Bacigalupi
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 6
Environmentalist
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
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Colorado
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi
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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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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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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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It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
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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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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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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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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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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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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
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But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
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Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.
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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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