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|title=The Drowned Cities

|sort=Drowned Cities

|publisher=Atom

|date=May 2012

|website=http://windupstories.com/about/

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|summary=A master-class in how to write a young adult book that neither preaches, nor patronises, while still managing to carry a powerful message about the dangers of environmental apathy and the circle of violence.

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The best thing about Paolo Bacigalupi's latest young adult novel is that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out to you. ''The Drowned Cities'' may lack the sex, swearing and amoral protagonists of his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]], but it has all the needle-sharp description, complex world-building and brilliant characters that have rapidly made a name for Bacigalupi as one of this centuries preeminent science-fiction writers.