Windup Girl

Name: Windup Girl
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ISBN: 9781597801584

ISBN-10: 1597801585

ISBN-13: 9781597801584

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paolo Bacigalupi

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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. 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. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. 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. 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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Paolo Bacigalupi won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for his debut novel, The Windup Girl, which was published in 2009. His short story collection Pump Six and Other Stories was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and his young adult novel Ship Breaker won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. His work has also appeared in High Country News, Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.