Windup Girl

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Paolo Bacigalupi: Windup Girl (2009, Start Publishing LLC)

300 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2009 by Start Publishing LLC.

ISBN:
978-1-59780-236-9
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5 stars (2 reviews)

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions.

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Review of 'The Windup Girl' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is a book that says "what if everything changes because nothing changes?" There's no oil. There's very little ecosystem left. There's been a couple of plagues. And clean food -- calories -- is so hard to come by that when a new fruit shows up in the Thai marketplaces, it's immediate cause for interest by the corporate research who suspects that the Thai have a hidden seedbank and a top ranked geneticist to bring species back from the dead. And they want to own those species.



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  • Fiction, thrillers, general