![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both novels have earned him recognition outside as well as inside the genre.īacigalupi is funny and charming, at times brash and opinionated, but what becomes surprisingly clear as you talk with him is that he is a man deeply uncomfortable with the fact that people listen to what he calls his “bleatings.” He’s worried that talking about his work will draw fire the way that the work itself has. Ship Breaker, the novel that earned him the National Book Award nomination, came out just before Deepwater Horizon started spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The Windup Girl was published at a time when the public had just become aware of the politics of food through nonfiction works by authors and film-makers like Michael Pollan, and Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis. In an ascent that has left fans and well-wishers-and even Bacigalupi himself-dizzy and breathless, he has since gone from being simply a well-regarded science fiction writer to an American Library Association Reading List author, a Time Magazine Top Ten Books of 2009 designee, and just this past November, a contender for the National Book Award.īacigalupi’s work always seems to be one step ahead of both trends and history. Two years ago few people outside the genre community had heard of Paolo Bacigalupi. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]()
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