WRITER

Paolo Bacigalupi

1972 - Today

Paolo Bacigalupi

Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell Memorial, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and has been nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the environmental journal High Country News. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paolo Bacigalupi has received more than 385,433 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Paolo Bacigalupi is the 6,607th most popular writer (down from 6,031st in 2019), the 12,937th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,434th in 2019) and the 942nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

390k
Page Views (PV)
39.77
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
28
Languages Editions (L)
4.58
Effective Languages (L*)
3.26
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Water Knife

Water rights, Droughts, Fiction

2015

The Windup Girl

Dystopian, Steampunk, Science Fiction

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover 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 encounters Emiko... Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.

2010

Pump Six and Other Stories

2010

The Drowned Cities

2012

Ship breaker

Conduct of life, Recycling (Waste), Fiction

In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life...

2010

Page views of Paolo Bacigalupis by language

Over the past year Paolo Bacigalupi has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 42,955 views, followed by French (4,292), and Russian (4,237). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (85.32%), Armenian (83.96%), and Finnish (64.84%)