Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi
Bacigalupi at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Born	August 6, 1972 Paonia, Colorado, USA
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Period	1999–present
Genre	Biopunk, science fiction, young-adult novels
Notable works	The Windup Girl Ship Breaker
Website
windupstories.com

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

He has won the Hugo, Nebula,^[1] Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the environmental journal High Country News. His non-fiction essays have appeared in Salon.com and High Country News, and have been syndicated in newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Salt Lake Tribune. He was a webmaster for High Country News starting in 2003.

His short fiction has been collected in Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008). His debut novel The Windup Girl, published by Night Shade Books in September 2009, won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2010.^[2] The Windup Girl was also named by Time as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009.^[3] Ship Breaker, published by Little, Brown in 2010, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for best young adult novel and was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.^[4]

Themes

The Windup Girl, along with many of his short stories, explores the effects of bioengineering and a world in which fossil fuels are no longer viable. Bioengineering has ravaged the world with food-borne plagues, produced tailored organisms as mimics to both cats and humans, and replaced today's fossil-fuel reliant engines with megodonts (an elephant-like beast), which convert food energy into work. Energy storage is accomplished through the use of high-capacity springs, as well as simply transporting food to feed either megodonts or human labourers. His writing deals with the ethics and possible ramifications of genetic engineering and western dominance, as well as the nature of humanity and a world in which, despite drastic changes, people remain essentially the same. Similar themes run through his book The Water Knife, where a future American Southwest is reduced to a dystopian Dust Bowl where water is a guarded commodity for the wealthy and powerful interests.^[5]

Awards and nominations

• 2005: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The People of Sand and Slag" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2004)
• 2006: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Calorie Man" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
• 2006: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The People of Sand and Slag" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2004)
• 2006: Won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for "The Calorie Man" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
• 2007: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, for "Yellow Card Man" (Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2006)
• 2009: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, for "The Gambler" (Fast Forward 2)
• 2009: Won the Locus Award for Best Collection, for Pump Six and Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2008)
• 2009: Won the Locus Award for Best Novelette, for "Pump Six" (Pump Six and Other Stories, Night Shade Books, 2008)
• 2010: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The Gambler" (Fast Forward 2, Pyr Books), Oct 2008
• 2010: Nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Ship Breaker, Little, Brown 2010.
• 2010: Won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[6]
• 2010: Won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[2] (tied with China Miéville's The City & the City)
• 2010: Won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[7]
• 2010: Won the Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009
• 2010: Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[8]
• 2011: Nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for Ship Breaker, Little, Brown 2010.
• 2011: Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella for The Alchemist, Subterranean Press, 2010.^[9]
• 2011: Won the Michael L. Printz Award for Best Young Adult Novel for Ship Breaker, Little, Brown 2010.^[10]
• 2012: Won the Prix Planète SF des blogueurs for The Windup Girl (French edition)^[11]
• 2012: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Novel for The Windup Girl, Hayakawa Publishing Corp, 2011.^[12]
• 2013: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Short Story for "Pocketful of Dharma" (Pump Six and Other Stories, Hayakawa Publishing Corp, 2012) ^[13]
• 2015: Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for 'The Doubt Factory', Little, Brown 2014.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Windup Girl (Night Shade Books, 2009)
• Ship Breaker (Little, Brown and Company, 2010)
• The Drowned Cities (Little, Brown and Company, 2012)
• Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013)^[14]
• The Doubt Factory (2014)^[14]
• The Water Knife (2015)^[14]

Short fiction

Collections

• Bacigalupi, Paolo (2008). Pump Six and other stories. Night Shade Books.

Novellas

• The Alchemist (Subterranean Press, 2011) with J. K. Drummond

Short stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Pump Six[15]	2008	Bacigalupi, Paolo (2008). "Pump Six". Pump Six and other stories. Night Shade Books.	Bacigalupi, Paolo (Sep 2008). "Pump Six". F&SF. 115 (3): 9–43.

• "Pocketful of Dharma" (1999)
• "The Fluted Girl" (2003)
• "The People of Sand and Slag" (2004)
• "The Pasho" (2004)
• "The Calorie Man" (2005)
• "The Tamarisk Hunter" (2006)
• "Pop Squad" (2006)
• "Yellow Card Man" (2006)
• "Softer" (2007)
• "Small Offerings" (2007)
• "Pump Six" (2008)
• "The Gambler" (2008)
• "Moriabe's Children" (2014)
• "Shooting the Apocalypse" (2014)
• "A Hot Day's Night" (2015)

Audiobooks

• The Alchemist and The Executioness (2010) with Tobias Buckell

References

1. 2010 Nebula Awards accessed September 4, 2012.
2. Flood, Alison (September 6, 2010). "China Miéville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
3. "The Top 10 Everything Of 2009". Time. December 8, 2009.
4. "Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker Nominated for National Book Award". Locus Online News. Locus Publications. 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/imagining-a-thirsty-future-in-paolo-bacigalupis-the-water-knife/2015/05/28/40689c74-fa60-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html
6. "Compton Crook Award Winners". Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
7. Post, Dave (2010-07-10). "2010 Campbell Award Winners Announced". Worlds Without End Blog. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
8. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2010 Nebula Awards". locusmag.com.
9. "SFWA announces the 2010 Nebula Award Nominees". Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. 2011-02-22. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
10. "Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books". YALSA American Library Association. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
11. http://planete-sf.com/les-laureats/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
12. "2012年 第43回星雲賞". sf-fan.gr.jp.
13. "2013年 第44回星雲賞". sf-fan.gr.jp.
14. "War, Killer Children, and More: An Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi". Tor.com. 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
15. Unusually, this short story appeared in a collection before being published in a periodical.

External links

• Official website
• List of works
• Paolo Bacigalupi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Paolo Bacigalupi (ology) blog and Paolo Bacigalupi (ology) book
• Critical profile and bibliography in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Paolo Bacigalupi at Library of Congress Authorities, with 6 catalog records