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In this edition of the Storyboard podcast, the sci-fi author talks about the appeal of young-adult fiction, life in the "Accelerated Age" and writing political novels that don't feel like polemics.
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Set in a climate-changed future, Ship Breaker is the first young adult novel from Windup Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi. It's about a boy who scavenges abandoned tankers for cash, struggling to survive in a world of indentured servitu... Read Post

Concept artist Diego Gonzalez created tons of art based on Paolo Bacigalupi's dystopian young adult novel Ship Breaker, and now he's edited it together into a harrowing, intense trailer. It will make the novel's environmental collap... Read Post

Is there an invisible line in the sand when it comes to writing young adult novels? That was one of the questions I had when I decided I was going to write YA.  My fiction for adult readers tends to be steeped in violence, nothing g... Read Post