The Windup Girl

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The winner of five major SF awards, The Windup Cirl is both a heart-stopping dystopian thriller and a razor-sharp vision of our near future. Anderson Laké is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's Street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the Windup Girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. And as Laké becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions threaten to spirál out of control. Businessmen and ministry offícials, wealthy foreigners and landless refugees all have their own agendas. But no one anticipates the... Tovább

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The winner of five major SF awards, The Windup Cirl is both a heart-stopping dystopian thriller and a razor-sharp vision of our near future. Anderson Laké is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's Street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the Windup Girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. And as Laké becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions threaten to spirál out of control. Businessmen and ministry offícials, wealthy foreigners and landless refugees all have their own agendas. But no one anticipates the devastating influence of the Windup Girl. 'Paolo Bacigalupi is a writer to watch ... Just don't wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasures of The Windup Cirl' THE WASHINGTON POST 'Heart-thudding action sequences, sordid sex, and enough technical speculation for two lesser novels' Cory Doctorow 'One of the finest SF novels of the year' PUBUSHERS WEEKLY 'It's ridiculous how good this book is' TECHLAND Vissza