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Paolo Bachigalupi — amerikanskiy fantast, publikuyushchiysya s 1999 goda. Zhanrovye napravleniya, v kotoryh on rabotaet — preimushchestvenno nauchnaya fantastika s postapokalipticheskim uklonom i fentezi. On rodilsya v gorodke Paoniya na zapade shtata Kolorado, v universitete shtata Ogayo izuchal kitayskiy yazyk, a zatem neskol'ko let provel v Azii. Ego proizvedeniya nosyat otpechatok kul'tury poseshchennyh im stran — takoy zhe yarkiy, kak i otpechatok nuara, kotorym polnitsya zhizn' sovremennyh SSHA. V romane «Orudie voyny» polu-chelovek i polu-zver', sozdannyy dlya vedeniya voyny, prodemonstriroval sposobnosti, prevyshayushchie ozhidaniya ego sozdateley. Ostaviv svoih sorodichey, on vozglavil gruppu lyudey. Odnako nekotorye znayut ego taynu — on otkryl sposob protivostoyat' geneticheski zadannym impul'sam podchineniya i predannosti svoim hozyaevam. Nastalo vremya, i Orudie voyny vystupit protiv tekh, kto kogda-to ego porabotil.