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TIME Magazine selects SHIP BREAKER for Top 100 List

September 9, 2021

TIME Magazine has named SHIP BREAKER as one of the Top 100 Young Adult Novels of all time. I loved writing this book and I’m honored that the panel of judges considered it worthy of recognition.  

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“Pop Squad” on Netflix

September 9, 2021

It’s part of Love, Death + Robots Season 2, and it looks great. Vulture had a positive review of it as well. https://www.vulture.com/article/love-death-and-robots-volume-2-netflix-best-worst-episodes.html

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Water Knife and Megadroughts

September 9, 2021

I was recently invited to share some thoughts about the future of water with RadioWest and KUER.  You can hear my dire prognostications along with some very smart discussion about our water future here: Megadroughts, Pt. 3: The Future

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THE WATER KNIFE is a finalist for the Locus Award

May 9, 2016

Very pleased to hear this news. From Locus: “SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf; Orbit UK) Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) A Borrowed Man, Gene Wolfe (Tor)” 2016 Locus Awards Finalists

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The Windup Girl gets a new look!

May 6, 2015

Very nice new look, I think. This edition also includes “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man,” two short stories that I wrote in the same universe, and that were building blocks that led eventually led me into the final story.

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B&N has signed copies of THE WATER KNIFE.

April 2, 2015

My hand is a bit cramped now, but I signed a few thousand copies of THE WATER KNIFE for sale at B&N. They’re now available for pre-order on the website. So if you want signed copies, this is the easiest place to get them.

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