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Environmental Sci-Fi Writer and Nebula Award Winner
About Paolo Bacigalupi
In 2009, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel *The Windup Girl* redefined ecological science fiction by embedding thermodynamics, genetic entropy, and seedbank politics into the visceral texture of Bangkok’s flooded streets, where calories are currency and biotech corporations weaponize hunger. Unlike speculative peers who foreground AI or space travel, Bacigalupi roots catastrophe in agricultural collapse: his futures hinge on failed rice strains, extinct pollinators, and the slow violence of corporate patent law over life itself. His journalism for *High Country News* and testimony before Congressional subcommittees on water policy reveal a writer who treats fiction as forensic fieldwork, mapping aquifer depletion in Arizona or Thai mangrove loss with the same rigor he applies to his characters’ metabolisms. He doesn’t imagine apocalypse as event but as accretion: droughts measured in decades, extinctions logged in seed vault inventories, resilience defined not by survival but by what knowledge survives in oral histories when digital archives rot.
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- “How did your reporting on Colorado River water rights shape the hydrology in *The Water Knife*?”
- “What real-world seed vault protocols inspired the 'calorie banks' in *The Windup Girl*?”
- “Why did you choose biotech monopolies—not AI—as the central antagonists in your dystopias?”
- “How does Thai street food culture function as ecological resistance in your Bangkok novels?”