{"product_id":"the-windup-girl-9780356500539","title":"The Windup Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE HUGO, NEBULA, LOCUS, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AND COMPTON CROOK AWARDS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is the ground-breaking and visionary modern classic that swept the board for every major science fiction award it its year of publication.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnderson Lake 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions threaten to spiral out of control. Busin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e * Time Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astounding novel\u003c\/b\u003e * Interzone *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot since William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, NEUROMANCER (1984), has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much\u003c\/b\u003e * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences\u003c\/b\u003e -- Cory Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's ridiculous how good this book is\u003c\/b\u003e * Techland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePostmodern Bangkok springs to life in Bacigalupi's brilliant dystopian tale of culture clash, recalling the best of China Mieville and Neal Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe pace of the book is fast and relentless. It is a dark vision . . . As a portrait of a world far from our own but not unrecognisably so, it is finely done\u003c\/b\u003e * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eBacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: this is cyberpunk without computers * Time Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eNot since William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, NEUROMANCER (1984), has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much ... Paolo Bacigalupi is a writer to watch for in the future. Just don't wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasu * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting story about industrial espionage, civil war, and political struggle, filled with heart-thudding action sequences, sordid sex, and enough technical speculation for two lesser novels * Cory Doctorow *\u003cbr\u003eThis complex, literate and intensely felt tale, which recalls both William Gibson and Ian McDonald at their very best, will garner Bacigalupi significant critical attention and is clearly one of the finest science fiction novels of the year * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833146753367,"sku":"9780356500539","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780356500539.jpg?v=1710342972","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-windup-girl-9780356500539","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}