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• Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

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  Manos, Ideas, Largo

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• The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

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  Riding, Ghost, Problem

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

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  Lying, Ocean, Sides

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Culture, Alive

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

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  Successful, Tears, Lines

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2011). “Ship Breaker: Number 1 in series”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

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  Men, Doubt, Ugly

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• Soy una pieza de ajedrez. Un peón", dijo. Se me puede sacrificar, pero no capturar. Ser capturado sería el fin de la partida.

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  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

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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.

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  Interesante, Historias, Quieren

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• Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

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  Soul, Pieces, Killing

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• A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

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  Stupid, Rivers, Desert

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

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  Nature, Tinkering, World

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• I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

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  Writing, Procrastination, Quirky

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The future looks a bit bleak to me.

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  Looks, Bleak, Bits

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

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  Leadership, Men, Loyal

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• Blood is not destiny.

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  Destiny, Blood

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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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  Differences, Choices, Culture

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

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  Law, Justice, Confusing

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, September 1, 2009.

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• Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

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  Sake, Should, Profit

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

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  Sex, Coffee, Hypocrisy

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.

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  News, Ugly, Environment

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Maybe because we're photosynthesizing we'll do more work outside. So our laptops will have to get rid of these damn glossy screens that have become so popular. And then we'll sit around outside, sucking up sun, getting fat and green, and surfing the net.

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  Work Out, Surfing, Green

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

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  Stories, World, Trends

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• La ciencia medioambiental nos está diciendo mucho sobre nuestro futuro y cómo podría ser, tanto si hablamos del calentamiento global (el actual símbolo del medio ambiente) como de la pérdida de diversidad genética en nuestros suministros alimentarios o de los efectos de las dosis bajas de sustancias químicas en el desarrollo humano.

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  Children, Loss, Talking

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• It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.

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  Boys, Cities, Soldier

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• At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

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  Math, Winning, Cities

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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