![]() ![]() ![]() This title has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. 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? 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 poignant questions. 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. 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. Emiko is The Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. 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. ![]() Winner of the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel In this Time Magazine top 10 book of the year, Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. ![]()
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