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“The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.”

Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi

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Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Bacigalupi is an American science fiction writer known for his profound insights into environmental issues and his unique imagination of the future world. His works often explore themes of climate change, resource depletion, and the relationship between humans and nature. more

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“The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.”

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“Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.”

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“At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.”

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“Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.”

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“Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.”

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“What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.”

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“I like fast plots with things that explode.”

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“When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.”

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“For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.”

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“I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.”

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