Bacigalupi's Message

"The man of sand and slag" (2004) is the first contact with Paolo Bacigalupi who shocked me. If we could design ourselves to live on purely naked rocks, what kind of people would we be, what would we do with this planet. It is annoying and annoying, it is truly confined to me. The following year, I read "The Calorie Man" (2005). Again, it was blown away. "Calories" gave us a different and clear view of economics, to the bottom. Since then I have caught up with his short story but I love most of me (last year's "Gamblers" was another favorite).

This week I am reading Paolo Bacigalupi 's recent visual error / Cli Fi masterpiece The Water Knife. After long years writing articles on the global water crisis, I am glad to see a powerful storyteller like Bacigalupi can imagine the real threat of devastating drought in the Colorado River Basin. Arcology is a term made by Italian architect Paolo Soleri in the late 1960s showing the idea of ​​fusing architecture and ecology to remind human settlements. As Soleri and his believers have imagined, "Arcology" is a smartly designed, intensive and futuristic city and city that dramatically reduces people while improving daily living and social relations. Influence

When you find Paulo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, imagine my pleasure. The wonderful premiere of Bacigalupi, disguised as a SF thriller, is actually a big problem novel. This is a book of wisdom, politically does not controversial. Without providing a solution, there is no reason to believe that mutual understanding will not break in beautifully written, subtle mixing of plot with complex concepts of sex, race, ethnicity, in a broken future. Novels have been held in Thailand for centuries. Calories control the world food market, gas-fueled cars are only super rich or military, electricity enables movement of electricity and kinetic energy based on spring.

Dystopian will allow the author to accept our current reality clues and push it up to the limit. For Paolo Bacigalupi, these clues tend to deal with climate change. In Wind-Up Girl, Bacigalupi imagines a large multinational pesticide company with a world of political and social power. This book requires the reader to live in the universe where genetic modification can lead to catastrophic consequences and climate change forces to make people live forever. The Bacigalupi book forces the reader to consider the world in which everything has access to clean water, food, and shelters, except for a few privilege classes. But if you ask Bacigalupi what kind of family he might say