The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

eBook - 2015

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author.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 ri...ch 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...

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Published
Night Shade Books
Language
English
Main Author
Paolo Bacigalupi
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size724 MB
ISBN9781597805742
Release Date5/5/2015
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781597805742
Release Date5/5/2015