Paolo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker

1 - Ship Breaker (May-2010)
2 - The Drowned Cities (May-2012)

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  Pump Six and Other Stories
  

  • Feb-2008
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  Paolo Bacigalupi's debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warnin...

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  Ship Breaker
  

  • May-2010
  • / Dystopian
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  Ship Breaker - 1
  

  A GRITTY, HIGH-STAKES ADVENTURE SET IN A FUTURISTIC WORLD WHERE OIL IS SCARCE, BUT LOYALTY IS SCARCER... In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scave...

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  Windup Girl
  

  • May-2010
  • / Dystopian
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  Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Undercover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he...

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  The Alchemist
  

  • Feb-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors' roof beams, thrusts up from...

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  The Drowned Cities
  

  • May-2012
  • / Dystopian
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  Ship Breaker - 2
  

  Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they fou...

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  The Alchemist and the Executioness
  

  • Dec-2012
  • / Science Fiction
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  It is a world where magic is forbidden yet practiced in secret every day. But each small act of magic exacts a dreadful price for it brings the bramble, which chokes farmland, destroys villages, and kills with its deadly thorns. In this world, an ...

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  Zombie Baseball Beatdown
  

  • Sep-2013
  • / General Fiction
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  In this inventive, fast-paced novel, New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi takes on hard-hitting themes--from food safety to racism and immigration--and creates a zany, grand-slam adventure that will get kids thi...

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  The Doubt Factory
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Action Adventure
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  SHOULD YOU TRUST THE LOYAL FATHER WHO RAISED YOU OR THE BOY HE'S TRYING TO SILENCE? Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At least that's what a mysterious young man who's stalking her says. But then she begins investigating the disturbin...

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  The Fluted Girl
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Science Fiction
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  In "The Fluted Girl," Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale of the freedoms and shackles of wealth and fame. Lidia is a fluted girl, one of a pair of genetically altered and surgically designed twins, intended to win the...

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  The Water Knife
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Science Fiction
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  WATER IS POWER Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and National Book Award finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new light on how we live today -- and what may be in store for us tomorrow. The...

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  The People of Sand and Slag
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / Science Fiction
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  In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale about the lives of three technologically modified guards, their barren, heavily mined landscape, and a chance encounter with a creatur...

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  The Gambler
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Science Fiction
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  In this Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, a Laotian journalist, Ong, tries to succeed in an American news agency where glamorous “click-bait” stories drive revenue, and in-depth news stories are a dying breed.  As Ong struggles to sur...

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  Cyber World
  

  • Nov-2016
  • / Science Fiction
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  Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hopes, dreams, and d...

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  Tool of War
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Science Fiction
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  This third book in a major series by a bestselling science fiction author, Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist is the gripping, eerily prescient story of the most provocative character from his acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The ...

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  Navola
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / Fantasy
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  From the New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary historical fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power."Steeped in poison, betra...

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Award-Winning Books by Paolo Bacigalupi

Pump Six and Other Stories
2009 Locus Award -- Collection
Ship Breaker
2011 Locus Award -- Young Adult
2011 Michael L. Printz Award -- Young Adult
Windup Girl
2009 Nebula Award -- Novel
2010 Hugo Award -- Novel
2010 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel