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Paperback The Windup Girl Book

ISBN: 1597801585

ISBN13: 9781597801584

The Windup Girl

(Book #1 in the The Windup Universe Series)

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Book Overview

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the break-out science fiction debut. Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not human; she is an engineered being, 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 this 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 and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

14 customer ratings | 7 reviews

Rated 5 stars
LOVED it!

Over the years I have read many, many, many sci-fi book, and watched many shows and movies. That being said I am always delighted to read or see something that gives a different perspective on a topic, or something that is entirely new. I read sci-fi for the possibility of it all. This book is very dystopian. It writes from the point of our human failings, which are many, but still gives a ray of hope that there is some more...

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Rated 2 stars
Disappointed

This wasn't at all what I was expecting and it ended up on my DNF list. It took me two weeks to muster up the enthusiasm to read 17 pages. Boring!

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Rated 5 stars
Compelling, terrifying, horrifying and beautiful

The Windup Girl is the first book I've read in 20 years to take me to a world I haven't been to before. I don't want to give too much away about the story, so let's just say the backdrop is: Peak oil has come and gone, empires have fallen and all energy is created by calories. I would however, like to talk about the characters a little. Here you are treated like an intelligent human being by the author, and presented with...

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Rated 5 stars
Thailand in the future:climate warming, peak oil, ecological destruction

After living in Thailand for several years and being married to a Thai women, the book is accurate in the ways it uses the culture of Thailand and especially the way it deals with the climate warming, peak oil, and ecological destruction within the Thai cultural framework. It was fascinating that he choose Thailand, and only referred to a broken-up Europe, a destroyed America (Emprie of America?), Finland ( seed bank in Norway),...

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Rated 5 stars
A stunning, scary and fantastic debut novel

Paolo Bacigalupi's debut novel The Windup Girl is a frightening, realistic and brilliant look at the near future of the world. Taking place in Thailand at some point in the future, Bacigalupi paints a picture of a world that is caught between several major problems: climate change has affected the lives of many people around the world, and in turn, has brought a rise in global agricultural corporations, and global energy resources...

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