The Windup Girl
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the breakout science fiction debut.Anderson Lake is AgriGens Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of historys 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 bioengineered plagues run rampant across the globe.What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bioterrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of posthuman evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highlyacclaimed science fiction novels of the twentyfirst century.
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the breakout science fiction debut.Anderson Lake is AgriGens Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of historys 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 bioengineered plagues run rampant across the globe.What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bioterrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of posthuman evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highlyacclaimed science fiction novels of the twentyfirst century.
