Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is a Nebula^[1], Compton Crook Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer from Colorado. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and 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 into numerous western newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Salt Lake Tribune. He was a webmaster for High Country News starting in 2003. He is currently working on a novel in his home state of Colorado, where he lives with his wife and son.

His short fiction has recently 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, was nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards in 2010, winning the Nebula. The Windup Girl was named by Time Magazine as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009.^[2]

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 megadonts (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 megadonts or human laborers.

• 2010: Won the Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009
• 2010: Won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009
• 2010: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[3]
• 2010: Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl, Night Shade Books, 2009^[4]
• 2010: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for The Gambler (Fast Forward 2, Pyr Books), Oct 2008
• 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)
• 2009: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, for The Gambler (Fast Forward 2)
• 2007: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, for Yellow Card Man (Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2006)
• 2006: Won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for The Calorie Man (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
• 2006: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Calorie Man (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2005)
• 2006: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for The People of Sand and Slag (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2004)
• 2005: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The People of Sand and Slag (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2004)

• The Windup Girl (2009)
• Ship Breaker (2010)

• Pump Six and Other Stories (2008)

• "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)

• List of works

Wikiquote has quotations related to Paolo Bacigalupi.

• Paolo Bacigalupi's website
• Paolo Bacigalupi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• 2010 audio interview on the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast
• Paolo Bacigalupi (ology) website and Paolo Bacigalupi (ology) book

This article about an American science fiction writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e