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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

- Paolo Bacigalupi
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.