I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
