Description: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Trade Paperback. Slight shelf wear to covers and corners. No other flaws. Hugo & Nebula Award Winner. What an amazing debut novel. To win both of sci-fi's major awards with your first book is remarkable but Bacigalupi's worldbuilding, plotting, and characters make it easy to see why this book was chosen. It's still his best book in my opinion, though I like the Shipbreaker books quite a bit, too. This is a must read! About the book: Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
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Format: Trade Paperback
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Number of Pages: 361
Topic: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, General, Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering, Thrillers / Terrorism
Era: 2010s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Language: English
Publication Year: 2010
Book Title: Windup Girl
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Nightshade Books
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Genre: Science Fiction
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Type: Novel
