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\"The<\/a>This is the book I’m going to read this summer. Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl” was announced winner of the \u00a0Nebula Award<\/a> on May 15. The book is a biopunk science fiction novel about Biotechbology,\u00a0Bioterrorism, Global warming, Seedbanks and Megacorporations.<\/p>\n

It was named by Time Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009.<\/p>\n

“Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: This is cyberpunk without computers.”
\n—Time Magazine<\/em>, Best Books of 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It’s ridiculous how good this book is… Bacigalupi’s vision is almost as rich and shocking as William Gibson’s vision was in 1984… I hope he writes 10 sequels.”
\n–Lev Grossman, author of\u00a0The Magicians<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An excerpt from Night Shade Books<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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 rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.<\/p>\n

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? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m already waiting for it to arrive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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