Interview Paolo Bacigalupi

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Alors que son dernier roman young adult, The Drowned Cities, vient de sortir, Paolo Bacigalupi répond aux questions du Publishers Weekly. Il revient notamment sur les différences qu'il y a entre écrire pour les adultes et les adolescents, la différence entre la distopie et la science fiction ou encore ses futurs projets. 

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And yet somehow you got your first novel published under that name, in September 2009. That was The Windup Girl for adults, and then Ship Breaker followed in May 2010. Which one did you write first? 

I wrote them at the same time. The Windup Girl took me about three years to write. I was still learning some things that I hadn’t figured out in my previous novels that didn’t get published, and so I was sort of stuck. And on top of that, Windup Girl itself is a very, very dark story with very little human hope in it. The characters are fairly selfish and short-sighted and not particularly loyal to one another, so it made for a very intense and depressing story to write. Once I sent the draft off to my agent, all I wanted to do was cleanse my palate. I had been talking with my wife, who’s a teacher, about how kids in her school don’t read. And one of the things that had come up was how when I was a kid, I was always reading science fiction and fantasy. So I started rooting through my books and I found that the books that I’d grown up being in love with, the Robert Heinlein juveniles like Starman Jones and Citizen of the Galaxy, some of them are OK but a lot of them are really long in the tooth. You can read Have Spacesuit – Will Travel now, and it’s so quaint that you can barely stand it. I thought, wow, what are these kids going to read if we don’t have new, cool science fiction for them? So Ship Breaker was kind of my attempt to do that. And it was also an opportunity to have characters I could really love, who would trust each other and support each other instead of stabbing each other in the back. That’s really important for me in all of my young adult writing, that loyalty and trust and support and human care that’s not in my adult fiction very much.
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