I later moved to China to work in business. SCHWEITZER: Could you give me some idea of who you are, what your background is, yourĮducation, etc? What were you doing before you were writing for publication?īACIGALUPI: My background: In college I majored in East Asian Studies with a focus onĬhinese language. The Waterįor the curious, he informs us, 'my last name is pronounced Batch-i-gah-loo-pee.' His first book was a collection Pump Six and Other Stories (2008). Zombie Baseball Beatdown (2013), a thriller for adults about climate-change denial, The Doubtįactory (2014), and two other novels for younger readers, Ship Breaker (2010) and The DrownedĬities (2012). He has published a humorous book for young adults, His career has not gone predictably since. Safe to say that with The Windup Girl he definitely had the attention of the science fiction field. Including a Nebula Award nomination for Best Novella for The Alchemist in 2011, but it was There were other award nominations before that and there have been some since,

Campbell Memorial Award, LocusĪward, the Compton Crook Award, and the Seiun Award (for best novel translated into He won the Sturgeon Award for 'The Calorie Man.' His first novel, The Windup Girl (2009) ,Ĭollected a jaw-dropping six awards: Hugo, Nebula, John W. In 2005 he had a Hugo Award nomination for 'The People of Sand and Slag.' In 2006 Paolo Baciaglupi seems to have stormed the science fiction field in the first few years of thisĬentury. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh.InterGalactic Interview With Paolo Bacigalupi Seven-city author tour 150,000-copy first printing. Dick and Charles Bowden, this epic, visionary novel should appeal to a wide audience. As vigilante bloodshed and desperation threaten to consume Phoenix, whispers of a 150-year-old document surface that may settle the water rights dispute and bring life back to the desert metropolis. Sent to investigate a possible water source near drought-stricken Phoenix, Angel soon crosses paths with an idealistic journalist, Lucy Monroe, whose underground dispatches put her in constant danger. Angel Velasquez is a “water knife,” a sort of mercenary factotum, whose job is to secure as much water as possible for his Las Vegas boss, arcology developer Catherine Case. The depleted Colorado River has become one of the last lifelines and the object of armed conflict among the residents of Arizona, California, and Nevada. In an indeterminate near future, extreme water shortages have made the Southwestern United States a dystopia, with the privileged few living in elite “arcologies” with self-generating water recycling systems. Hugo Award–winner Bacigalupi ( The Windup Girl) delivers an ambitious, genre-dissolving thriller and a timely cautionary tale.

The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi