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Paolo Bacigalupi

Author of The Windup Girl

38+ Works 15,364 Members 849 Reviews 28 Favorited

About the Author

Paolo Bacigalupi won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for his debut novel, The Windup Girl, which was published in 2009. His short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and his young adult novel Ship show more Breaker won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and was finalist for the National Book Award. His work has also appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Paolo Bacigalupi at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States.

Series

Works by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl (2009) 6,214 copies
Ship Breaker (2010) 3,400 copies
The Water Knife (2015) 1,794 copies
Pump Six and Other Stories (2008) 1,126 copies
The Drowned Cities (2012) 1,102 copies
The Alchemist (2011) 333 copies
The Doubt Factory (2014) 311 copies
The Tangled Lands (2018) 309 copies
Tool of War (2017) 246 copies
Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013) 212 copies
The Alchemist / The Executioness (2010) — Author — 50 copies
The Calorie Man (novelette) (2005) 30 copies
The Fluted Girl (novelette) (2006) 28 copies

Associated Works

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (2008) — Contributor — 1,541 copies
Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories (2011) — Contributor — 504 copies
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007) — Contributor — 385 copies
The End Is Nigh (2014) — Contributor — 275 copies
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (2014) — Contributor — 246 copies
Epic: Legends of Fantasy (2012) — Contributor — 186 copies
Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (2013) — Contributor — 182 copies
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (2013) — Contributor — 180 copies
Year's Best SF 14 (2009) — Contributor — 170 copies
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 151 copies
Diverse Energies (2012) — Contributor — 136 copies
Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (2007) — Contributor — 130 copies
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (2007) — Contributor — 120 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 (2004) — Contributor — 119 copies
Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Contributor — 99 copies
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (2011) — Contributor — 89 copies
Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (2019) — Contributor — 88 copies
After the End: Recent Apocalypses (2013) — Contributor; Contributor — 87 copies
Fast Forward 2 (2008) — Contributor — 67 copies
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) — Contributor — 58 copies
Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow (2016) — Contributor — 26 copies
We, Robots (2010) — Contributor — 23 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 72 • May 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 13 copies
Pwning Tomorrow (2015) — Contributor — 11 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 60 • May 2015 (2015) — Excerpt, some editions — 11 copies
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology, Volume 2+3 (2022) — Contributor — 11 copies
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction — Interview with — 10 copies
Vital: The Future of Healthcare (2021) — Contributor — 10 copies
Cities of Light: a collection of solar futures (2021) — Contributor — 5 copies
Futuredaze²: Reprise (2014) — Contributor — 4 copies

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GROUP READ -- THE WINDUP GIRL by Paolo Bacigalupi in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (August 2012)
THE WINDUP GIRL - Discussion Thread ***Possible SPOILERS*** in The 12 in 12 Category Challenge (March 2012)

Reviews

Set in a future Thailand where rising sea levels due to climate change and plagues caused by bioengineered crops and mutated pests ravage the world, Bangkok holds on with levees and water pumps to keep the city from succumbing to the sea and isolationism and the Environment Ministry to ward off plagues and control by the biotech companies and their sterile seeds. It tells the story of a biotech company employee trying to get his hands on Thailand's seed bank to exploit it along with the windup girl, the only one in Bangkok, and how their lives intersect. Really interesting book.… (more)
 
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LisaMorr | 303 other reviews | Mar 1, 2024 |
An imaginative and unique post-apocalyptic setting with a large cast of morally grey characters doing terrible things to one another. I found it fascinating.
 
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yaj70 | 303 other reviews | Jan 22, 2024 |
As good as any book I've read before (about agro-terrorism, androids and Thai culture).
 
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robmartin | 303 other reviews | Jan 15, 2024 |
Story: 4 / 10
Characters: 7
Setting: 10
Prose: 9

The Windup Girl started so well ... and there were so many reasons to read it: Hugo and Nebula award winner; and someone literally bought me a copy.

The unique, poetic prose and clever post-steampunk setting immerse the reader in the first few pages. The story starts off fairly strong with compelling characters and strange relationship dynamics. However, the plot loses direction in a web of tertiary story threads. At 33% completion, it was clear that the story was ultimately never going to come together. Since I'm reading through all the Nebula and Hugo award winning authors, I cannot honestly suggest you skip this book. Nevertheless, I would suggest reading one of Bacigalupi's later works: I imagine the stories would be more mature.

Tags: generipping (bio-engineering), plagues, post-steampunk, energy-efficiency, asia, androids
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