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The Windup Girl (Hardback)
Short Description for The Windup GirlWhat 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...
Full description- Publisher: NIGHT SHADE BOOKS
- Published: 14 October 2009
- Format: Hardback 300 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Science Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781597801577 ISBN 10: 1597801577
- Sales rank: 47,232
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Reviews for The Windup Girl
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Compelling, terrifying, horrifying and beautiful.
Compelling, terrifying, horrifying and beautiful. The Windup Girl is the first book I've read in 20 years to take me to a world I haven't been to before.
I don't want to give too much away about the story, so let's just say the backdrop is: Peak oil has come and gone, empires have fallen and all energy is created by calories.
I would however, like to talk about the characters a little.
Here you are treated like an intelligent human being by the author, and presented with characters that transcend the usual one dimension. Each has her or her flaws and you need to work to overlook their character defects to get to know the real person; there's no simple "good guy" and "bad guy".
Also, there isn't really an obvious main character. Why does there have to be? It's refreshing to read something that strays from the norm and instead focuses on a bunch of people struggling to survive. If you really want a hero, just judge them for yourself and pick one.
The best thing about this book for me was that it reminded me of reading books for the first time when I was a kid, when every world was new and every story an original.
Try it! by Dan Walsh
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