Paolo Bacigalupi
1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-25
Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972 in Paonia, Colorado) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy for adults and young readers. His debut novel, The Windup Girl (2009), won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, and he has also won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and is a three-time Locus Award winner. His young adult novel Ship Breaker, a New York Times bestseller, won the Michael L. Printz Award and was a National Book Award finalist; it was followed by The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. He is also the author of the adult novel The Water Knife, the Edgar Award nominee The Doubt Factory, the children's novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and the collection Pump Six and Other Stories, and he co-wrote The Tangled Lands with Tobias S. Buckell. He lives in western Colorado with his wife and son.
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- Core Canon books: 1
- Current rank: #547 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.90
- Award recognitions: None recorded
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- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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