About the Book
Hugo Award winner 2010, Nebula Award winner 2009, John W. Campbell Award winner 2010, Compton Crook Award winner 2010, Locus Award for Best First Novel 2010.
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 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
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.
