The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

Language: English

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Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction - High Tech

Publisher: Night Shade

Published: Sep 14, 2009

Awards: Nebula.Best Novel.Winner.2010
List Of Awards: Nebula
Date Read: Oct 18, 2012
Form: Novel
Pages: 667
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 144453

Description:

 Capt. Jaidee Rojjanasukchai of the Thai Environment Ministry fights desperately to protect his beloved nation from foreign influences. Factory manager Anderson Lake covertly searches for new and useful mutations for a hated Western agribusiness. Aging Chinese immigrant Tan Hock Seng lives by his wits while looking for one last score. Emiko, the titular despised but impossibly seductive product of Japanese genetic engineering, works in a brothel until she accidentally triggers a civil war.