Printz Award for best young adult novel and was nominated for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Ship Breaker, published by Little, Brown in 2010, was awarded the Michael L. The Windup Girl was also named by Time as one of the Top 10 Books of 2009. His debut novel The Windup Girl, published by Night Shade Books in September 2009, won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. His short fiction has been collected in Pump Six and Other Stories. He was a webmaster for High Country News starting in 2003. His non-fiction essays have appeared in and High Country News, and have been syndicated in newspapers including the Idaho Statesman, the Albuquerque Journal, and the Salt Lake Tribune. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the environmental journal High Country News. Printz awards, and was nominated for the National Book Award. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. (Oct.(Delta County, Colorado, United States of America) 'In the beleaguered city of Khaim, a lone alchemist seeks a solution to a deadly threat.Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep'-From publisher's description on jacket flap. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary. Not unlike the previous books, this amounts to a bloody, brutal race to survive, and is well worth the wait. From award-winning and New York Times best-selling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land. Through Tool, he explores free will and the consequences of humans playing at being gods.

Bacigalupi’s environmentally ravaged world remains both richly described and terrifying, his characters diverse and complex. In the beleaguered city of Khaim, a lone alchemist. A world of glittering memories and a desperate present, where everyone uses a little magic, and someone else always pays the price. Meanwhile, Tool’s creator, General Caroa, is determined to end his existence-after all, Tool has found a way to overcome his programming, and he answers to no master. In paired novellas, award-winning authors Tobias Buckell and Paolo Bacigalupi explore a shared world where magic is forbidden and its use is rewarded with the axe. He makes his way to the small ship that belongs to Mahlia, who-along with former soldier boy Ocho and his crew-is running her own operation, smuggling art and other artifacts out of the Drowned Cities. Before he can take in his victory, he’s attacked by a missile strike and barely survives. Bacigalupi’s intense and violent follow-up to Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities finds Tool-a powerful “augment” made from animal and human DNA-finally in control of the Drowned Cities (the onetime District of Columbia) after years of battle.

The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi