SPECULATIONS - ELLIOTT BAY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY BOOK GROUP |
As the literature of ideas and imagination, Science Fiction and Fantasy simply demands discussion. Our August selection is the Nebula
award-winning novel, The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Anderson
Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover
as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in
search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty
of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the
Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People,
Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift
forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution?
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