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The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi
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The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl

Dystopian future intertwines bioethics, survival, and identity.

"The Windup Girl" isn't just a gripping tale set in a plausible dystopian future; it delves deep into the moral complexities of our relationship with the environment and technology. Bacigalupi crafts a world where bio-engineered plagues and corporate greed resonate eerily with our current climate concerns. The humanity encapsulated in Emiko's story, the Windup Girl herself, will haunt and challenge your views on what it means to be human in an age of relentless progress and exploitation. Consider this read for a blend of thought-provoking speculation and rich storytelling.

  • Hugo Award for Best Novel (2010)
  • Nebula Award for Best Novel (2009)
  • Locus Award for Best First Novel (2010)
  • Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Bestes ausländisches Werk (2012)
  • British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Novel (2010)
  • John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2010)
  • Compton Crook Award (2010)
  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman étranger (2013)
  • Premio Ignotus for Mejor Novela Extranjera (2012)
  • Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2013)
  • Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2011)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2009)
  • Prix Une autre Terre (2013)
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The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi
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ISBN: 9780356500539
Authors: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Orbit
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 77937 readers)

Description

Anderson Lake is a company man for AgriGen in Thailand. Undercover as a factory manager, he searches Bangkok's street markets for lost calories, hoping to reap their bounty. There he meets Emiko, the Windup Girl—a New Person, engineered and creche-grown to satisfy the whims of a Kyoto businessman, now abandoned to the streets. New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a near-future where calorie companies rule, the oil age has ended, and bio-engineered plagues drive humanity toward post-human evolution. What happens when calories become currency? When bio-terrorism serves corporate profits? Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
 

Dystopian future intertwines bioethics, survival, and identity.

"The Windup Girl" isn't just a gripping tale set in a plausible dystopian future; it delves deep into the moral complexities of our relationship with the environment and technology. Bacigalupi crafts a world where bio-engineered plagues and corporate greed resonate eerily with our current climate concerns. The humanity encapsulated in Emiko's story, the Windup Girl herself, will haunt and challenge your views on what it means to be human in an age of relentless progress and exploitation. Consider this read for a blend of thought-provoking speculation and rich storytelling.

  • Hugo Award for Best Novel (2010)
  • Nebula Award for Best Novel (2009)
  • Locus Award for Best First Novel (2010)
  • Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Bestes ausländisches Werk (2012)
  • British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Novel (2010)
  • John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2010)
  • Compton Crook Award (2010)
  • Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Roman étranger (2013)
  • Premio Ignotus for Mejor Novela Extranjera (2012)
  • Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2013)
  • Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2011)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2009)
  • Prix Une autre Terre (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.