Paolo Bacigalupi books

Paolo Bacigalupi is an award-winning science fiction author known for The Windup Girl and the Ship Breaker series.

Anthologies

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The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition 2004 Buy
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection 2004 Buy
Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2004 2004 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006 Buy
Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories 2007 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007 Buy
Rewired 2007 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008 Buy
Fast Forward 2 2008 Buy
I’m With the Bears 2011 Buy
Diverse Energies 2012 Buy
After the End 2013 Buy
The End is Nigh 2014 Buy
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine 2014 Buy
Futuredaze 2: Reprise 2014 Buy
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales 2014 Buy
Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 2014 Buy
Loosed Upon the World 2015 Buy
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection 2017 Buy

Khaim Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order

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The Executioness 2011 N/A
The Alchemist 2011 Buy
The Tangled Lands 2018 Buy

Ship Breaker Reading Order

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Hajóbontók 2010 N/A
Ship Breaker 2010 Buy
The Drowned Cities 2012 Buy
Tool of War 2017 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

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Pocketful of Dharma 1999 N/A
The Fluted Girl 2003 Buy
The People of Sand and Slag 2004 Buy
The Calorie Man 2005 N/A
The Tamarisk Hunter 2006 N/A
Yellow Card Man 2006 Buy
The Gambler 2008 Buy

Standalone Novels

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Zombie Baseball Beatdown 2013 Buy
The Doubt Factory 2014 Buy
The Water Knife 2015 Buy
Navola 2024 Buy

Windup Universe Reading Order

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Der Spieler 2008 N/A
Pump Six and Other Stories 2006 Buy
2009 N/A
The Windup Girl 2009 Buy

Paolo Bacigalupi writes science fiction that deals with environmental collapse, corporate greed, and what happens to ordinary people when the systems they depend on fall apart. His debut novel The Windup Girl, set in a future Thailand struggling with bioengineered plagues and rising seas, won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2010 and established him as one of the most important voices in climate fiction.

His work ranges from adult literary science fiction like The Water Knife and Navola to young adult novels like Ship Breaker and Zombie Baseball Beatdown. He has also published dozens of short stories across major anthologies and magazines since 1999. Whether writing about child laborers stripping old ships for salvage or calorie monopolies controlling the food supply, Bacigalupi keeps returning to questions about survival, power, and the cost of ignoring environmental limits.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Paolo Bacigalupi written?

Paolo Bacigalupi has written 41 books across six series.

What was Paolo Bacigalupi's first book?

Paolo Bacigalupi’s first book is Pocketful of Dharma, published in 1999.

What awards has Paolo Bacigalupi won?

Paolo Bacigalupi won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for The Windup Girl in 2010. He also won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature finalist recognition and the Michael L. Printz Award for Ship Breaker.

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