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The Windup Girl Paperback – May 5, 2015

by Paolo Bacigalupi (Author)

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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 rich 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 bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits and forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.

In this brand new edition celebrating the book’s reception into the canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning “The Calorie Man” and “Yellow Card Man.” Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published, and the future of science fiction.

Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, LIBRARY JOURNAL, LOCUS AND THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD, THE NEBULA AWARD, THE LOCUS AWARD, THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD, AND THE CAMPBELL MEMORIAL AWARD

“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.”
—Lev Grossman, TIME

“Reminiscent of Philip K. Dick’s Blade Runner.... densely packed with ideas about genetic manipulation, distribution of resources, the social order, and environmental degradation ... science fiction with an environmental message, but one that does not get in the way of its compelling story.”
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“This complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best ... clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year.”
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"When it hits its sweet-spot, The Windup Girl embodies what SF does best of all: it remakes reality in compelling, absorbing and thought-provoking ways, and it lives on vividly in the mind."
—The Guardian

"Bacigalupi never slides into moralism or judgement ... Ultimately that's what makes this debut novel so exciting. It's rare to find a writer who can create such well-shaded characters while also building a weird new future world."
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About the Author

Paolo Bacigalupi is the award winning author of adult and young adult fiction. His work has won the Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus award among others, and been nominated for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. His short fiction has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and High Country News. Bacigalupi lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son.

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Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Night Shade Books; Reissue edition (May 5, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1597808210
ISBN-13: 978-1597808217
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 9 inches
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Things are not looking good for Bangkok...or the rest of the world.

February 14, 2017

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This is a unique novel. Some people have claimed that it is steampunk rather than science fiction. I admit, there are steampunk elements but the novel has a sound basis in speculative fiction. The world of the novel is not an impossible world, as has been my experience with steampunk.

Windup Girl is not an easy novel to read. It's long, there are a lot of characters, the world is complex, people's motivations are diverse as are their personalities. The local, future Bangkok, also takes some time to adjust to, at least for me since I have never been to Bangkok. It takes a while to sink into the world and know your way around. That is, as well as any of the characters do at any rate, which is not very well. Everyone has a different view of what's going on and is keeping secrets from all of the other characters. No one is simple. No one is easy to relate to. The Windup Girl, Emiko, is probably the most identifiable character, which says a lot.

I enjoyed the novel. I enjoyed the challenge of reading and understanding. I enjoyed the author's depth of understanding of this alien landscape. The use of Thai words and concepts gives the world substance and character.

While I am giving it five stars -- which it deserves -- I caution potential readers that this is not a book for everyone. If you're looking for something light and uplifting, this isn't it.

One last point, a negative one, there is a huge unresolved issue at the end of the book. Normally I can forgive authors for not clearing up every little thing, but this was like getting punched in the face. Come to think of it, I think I'll knock it down to four stars just for that.

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Interesting book with great characters and a nice jump into Thai culture and language with a bit of a sci-fy twist---hard scy-fy in my opinion. The books appears to be based on sound ethnography and history of the region along with sound science being stretched or extrapolated to a 'near-future' setting in which most characters, in all of their predicaments, take all kinds of risks to gain some semblance of their various 'old ways' and places now seemingly gone or rapidly disappearing in the rearview mirror. A beautiful book of action laden with numerous palpable description, to the point of actually smelling the streets or the dunk or feeling the rumble of the FEW ''old' gasoline/diesel cars left. Read it and get ready to travel the canals of Bangkok in a genetically modified future world!

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Jamie L. Henderson

complex, fascinating, but not engaging

July 7, 2013

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This book is incredibly well researched and the amount of time and thought that has obviously gone into the world-building is truly awe-inspiring. The writing is generally good from the perspective that there is an amazing and complex story which is communicated well and clearly without a lot of pure exposition. This is even more impressive given that the story comes with a strong warning about our own, not-so-distant, dystopian future of environmental collapse and corporate government. Paired with the story's morality play sense of right and wrong, this could get preachy but doesn't.

The book is set after the rise and subsequent fall of globalism, in a time when international trade is really just rebuilding itself. The Kingdom of Thailand sits as a rare, independent nation amidst a sea of global warming collapsed environment and gene warfare induced famines and diseases. And inside it, the Trade Ministry and the Environment Ministry are waging an idealogical war. Is isolation, a weird form of 'nature-ism', and fear of the outside keeping the country safe? Or do they need the mega-corporations' genetically modified grains to safely feed their people at the cost of being indebted to those mega-corps? And just like the proverbial butterfly that sets off a hurricane, one illegal wind-up girl accidentally ignites the dynamite of change.

Bacigalupi does so many things right -- the atmosphere, setting, dialog, completely unique story, etc. -- but he appears to lack trust in the reader. It's true that he has a complex location and a complex cast of characters operating inside a very rich cultural environment. Basic workings of the environment are often repeated to the point that it's difficult as a reader to get really engaged. It is not until the last third of the book, where the action really picks up, that Bacigalupi appears to be too busy trying to get across everything that's happening that he forgets to keep re-explaining things and the reader's engagement is really achieved.

Additionally, this book is rather poorly edited. I read the hardback edition and there were a somewhat distracting number of simple typos (spelling, number or gender matching, extra words in a sentence that clearly should have been deleted).

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A near term distropic tale of biological disaster

August 27, 2015

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Baclgalupi's story is set in Bangkok Thailand, one of the last surviving centers of human population. All petroleum has been used by a thoughtless civilization and the primary energy source is animal motion transferred into "kink springs". Plant and animal DNA has been manipulated to create new foods as well as animals as well as gene engineered people. Devastating diseases and plagues have invaded the planet killing most other food sources.

The "new people" have been designed to serve the remnants of mankind as sex slaves, specialized labor and warriors. One new person female sex slave (a windup girl) discovers that her creators have accidentally given her some unexpected capabilities that give her an advantage over old style humans.

I came to read Paolo's books with "The Water Knife" and enjoyed it so much I searched for his earlier works such as this.

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