Hugo - Award bring home the bacon source Paolo Bacigalupi is on tour in support of The Water Knife , and at his issue yesterday in Brookline , Mass. , he was asked about the disparity between “ optimistic ” scifi and “ pessimistic ” scifi . One of his watching : “ Science fable hunts for the techno kettle of fish , not the social fix . ”
The Water Knife , which do out last calendar week , is a good model of this : correct in a scorched American West , tell battle one another over a panic attack imagination : water . One individual might have the document that will lock up water right , and every major player converges in the desert . Along the elbow room , Bacigalupi looks at the real societal cost for the people caught in the crossfire .
He went on to take down that scientific discipline fable run to view technology and technology leader in a positive light , because the inventors and their existence are often solving immediate problems . The downside is that the technological fix often accost problems that amount out of society ’s fabric .
Bacigalupi — whose former study admit The Windup Girl and YA novel Shipbreaker — will be on tour through the middle of June . Here ’s the list of his coming stops .
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