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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Published 2009 by Night Shade Books · 376 pages

Hugo Winner 2010Nebula Winner 2010
Science Fiction

Synopsis

In a future Thailand ravaged by rising seas and engineered plagues, calorie companies control the global food supply. Emiko, a genetically modified “new person” designed as a servant, struggles for survival and freedom in Bangkok’s sweltering streets while political factions clash over the kingdom’s last reserves of genetic diversity.

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Debut

This was the author's debut novel

Author Nationality

US

ISBN

9781597801577

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