Paolo Bacigalupi
I like fast plots with things that explode.Collection: Plot
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.Collection: Care
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.Collection: Boys
Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Stories
Blood is not destiny.Collection: Destiny
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.Collection: Life