At some point, you realize you can't provide a perfectly monolithic description of a foreign culture's future any more than you can provide a monolithic description of your own hometown's future. Your choices about what to emphasize and what to leave out make all the difference, and ultimately, your fingerprints and biases and viewpoints are going to be all over the story.
Paolo BacigalupiNature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?
Paolo BacigalupiThe more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
Paolo BacigalupiBut then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
Paolo Bacigalupi