Paolo Bacigalupi Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo , Nebula , John. W. Campbell, Compton Crook , Theodore Sturgeon , and Michael L. Printz awards, and has been nominated for the National Book Award . His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Asimov's Science Fiction , and the environmental journal High Country News . Nonfiction essays of his have appeared in Salon.com and High Country News , and have been syndicated in newspapers, including the Idaho Statesman , the Albuquerque Journal , and the Salt Lake Tribune . Bacigalupi's short fiction has been collected in the anthology Pump Six and Other Stories . His debut novel The Windup Girl , also published by Night Shade Books in September 2009, won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards in 2010. The Windup Girl was also named by Time as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009. Ship Breaker , published by Little, Brown in 2010, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for the "best book written for teens", and was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature .Themes The Windup Girl , along with many of his short stories, explores the effects of bioengineering and a world in which fossil fuels are no longer viable. Bioengineering has ravaged the world with food-borne plagues, produced tailored organisms as mimics to both cats and humans , and replaced today's fossil-fuel reliant engines with muscle power, whether human or engineered animal. Energy storage is accomplished through the use of high-capacity springs, as well as simply transporting food to feed either megodonts or human laborers. His writing deals with the ethics and possible ramifications of genetic engineering and western dominance, as well as the nature of humanity and a world in which, despite drastic changes, people remain essentially the same. Similar themes run through his book The Water Knife , where a future American Southwest is reduced to a dystopian Dust Bowl where water is a guarded commodity for the wealthy and powerful interests.Awards and nominations 2005: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The People of Sand and Slag" 2006: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Calorie Man" 2006: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The People of Sand and Slag" 2006: Won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for "The Calorie Man" 2007: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette , for "Yellow Card Man" 2009: Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novelette, for "The Gambler" 2009: Won the Locus Award for Best Collection, for Pump Six and Other Stories 2009: Won the Locus Award for Best Novelette , for "Pump Six" 2010: Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "The Gambler", Oct 2008 2010: Nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Ship Breaker , Little, Brown 2010. 2010: Won the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl , Night Shade Books, 2009 2010: Won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl , Night Shade Books, 2009 2010: Won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl , Night Shade Books, 2009 2010: Won the Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Windup Girl , Night Shade Books, 2009 2010: Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Windup Girl , Night Shade Books, 2009 2011: Nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for Ship Breaker , Little, Brown 2010. 2011: Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella for The Alchemist , Subterranean Press , 2010. 2011: Won the Michael L. Printz Award for Best Young Adult Novel for Ship Breaker , Little, Brown 2010. 2012: Won the Prix Planète SF des blogueurs for The Windup Girl 2012: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Novel for The Windup Girl , Hayakawa Publishing Corp, 2011. 2013: Won the Seiun Award for The Best Translated Short Story for "Pocketful of Dharma" 2015: Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for 'The Doubt Factory', Little, Brown 2014.Novels The Windup Girl The Water Knife The Tangled Lands , with Tobias S. BuckellYoung Adult Ship Breaker trilogy * Ship Breaker * The Drowned Cities * Tool of War The Doubt Factory Younger Readers Zombie Baseball Beatdown Collections Novellas The Alchemist Short stories "Pocketful of Dharma" "The Fluted Girl" "The People of Sand and Slag" "The Pasho" "The Calorie Man" "The Tamarisk Hunter" "Pop Squad" "Yellow Card Man" "Softer" "Small Offerings" "Pump Six" "The Gambler" "Moriabe's Children" "Shooting the Apocalypse" "A Hot Day's Night" "City of Ash" "Mika Model" "A Passing Sickness" "Fixable" "American Gold Mine" "A Full Life"Audiobooks The Alchemist and The Executioness with Tobias Buckell
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