I often try to describe things with analogies to other things. But that doesn't work with Windup, because I can't think of any other work that's very similar to it. For a scifi of this caliber, that's pretty cool. I've seen some comparisons between Windup and Neuromancer, and various other Spraw...
“The Windup Girl” made quite a splash when it came out. It won the Nebula and the Hugo and it was the author’s debut novel (although he’d written four previous novels that he couldn’t get published). I bought a copy when it came out in paperback but I struggled so much with all the strange Thai na...
"Good book made even better by great narration""The Windup Girl" made quite a splash when it came out. It won the Nebula and the Hugo and it was the author's debut novel (although he'd written four previous novels that he couldn't get published).I bought a copy when it came out in paperback but I st...
A brilliant piece of enviropunk, The Windup Girl is stunningly plotted and written, though I'll admit -- like most dystopian science fiction -- it can get a little depressing. Set in a post-industrial (post fossil fuel, post biodiversity, post high-speed transport) world beset by fast-mutating plagu...
I picked up this book because the premise was fascinating: in a futuristic Thailand, calories are more precious than anything we can imagine today. Calorie companies and governments and other factions struggle for power, even as people struggle to survive in the background of daily life, searching f...
Initially a successful short story and novella writer, Paolo Bacigalupi's first novel, The Windup Girl won many awards including the Nebula and Hugo. It is an intelligent, apocalyptic saga full of corrupt governments, greedy and immoral corporate super-powers, and civil insurrections, all players on...
in the aftermath of the genetics revolution, the oceans rise and entire phylum of species are wiped out, with rampant cross-breeding and escaped artificial animals roaming the decaying world. Calorie Combines offer disease-resistant proteins, for some presumably exorbitant price, while most countrie...
I didn't care for this book. I made it to the end, but only because it won a Hugo Award. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did. If it wasn't for the Hugo, I would've quit after the first 100 pages or so.Reading this book felt like reading a sequel. It's like there should've been ...
Brainycat's 5 "B"s:blood: 3boobs: 1bombs: 4bondage: 2blasphemy: 1I've been wandering around the periphery of this book for a while without actually reading it. After a couple of ill fated attempts at reading nonfiction history (clearly, I'm not cut out for that kind of effort and kudos to those brav...
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