A great interview w/ Paolo B. from the Publisher’s Weekly info-packed site. Good insights into writing for adults vs YA, as well as general thoughts on sci fi and the mercurial meaning(s) of the oft-abused term”dystopia.”
From publishersweekly.com:
“Paolo Bacigalupi’s first novel for young adults, Ship Breaker, won the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award and placed him firmly on the radar of the YA world – just a year after his debut adult novel, The Windup Girl, swept the major science-fiction honors, including the Hugo and Nebula Awards. On May 1, he returns to the post-cataclysmic realm of Ship Breaker with the release of The Drowned Cities, which moves the action from a futuristic Gulf Coast devastated by climate change to war-torn Washington, D.C. The author spoke with Bookshelf from the relative safety of his Colorado home about the differences between writing for adults and for teens, the distinction he draws between dystopias and science fiction, and why Conan the Barbarian was more than just another muscle-bound warrior.”
Find the rest of the article at: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/51699-q–a-with-paolo-bacigalupi.html