Some science fiction authors have fantastic ideas but are not great storytellers. Some are gifted storytellers but their is nothing particularly original about their ideas. Bacigalupi is one of the few SF authors who excels at both. The windup Girl is filled with brilliant ideas, but it also an abso...
I gave up circa p100. I don't care about any of the characters and there is no discernable plot after 1/5th of the book. The writing is repetative and the ideas not nearly as original as many seem to think. My faith in winning awards as an indicator of quality is further eroded; it's down to bedrock...
The Windup Girl was an interesting story and the setting was fairly unique in my experience. It’s set in Thailand, in a dystopian-type future, featuring genetic manipulation and political maneuvering. There are four main point-of-view characters, each of which are mostly focused on their own concern...
Bacigalupi envisions a bleak world here. Not only have oil reserves dwindled to almost nothing, companies went too far a generation or two back and lost control of a plague that poisons food crops. In due course animal populations have plummeted. Its called the Contraction, and the world has indeed ...
3.5 Stars + excellent world-building, engineering ideas, and cautionary tale. + Kink springs, Cheshires, and generippers were well done. - Too many characters I didn't care about. I wanted to know more about the windup, but she got very little page time. - lots of graphic violence that seemed gra...
This review will probably contain spoilers. Read on at your own risk. Tuck Everlasting is one of those books that I've been meaning to read. For 30 years. I've resisted until now because several people told me it was an extremely sad book. I'm not sure what book they were reading. Maybe there's...
The book is set in a dystopian future where nature has more or less collapsed as a consequence of pollution, global warming, abuse of antibiotics, bio-engineering and engineered plagues designed to destroy crops and give power to food companies offering resistant (albeit sterile) seedstock at premiu...
Redeemed itself from 2.5 to 3 stars on the last two pages. My main issue with this book was the complete lack of emotion. Plot twists, character developments and deaths passed by with not so much as a reaction from me. It felt like the author was a reporter, writing a historical fiction. He was far ...
This is an excellent work of science fiction. Set in a future ravaged my plagues that have attacked the food supply to make room for corporations, the book is set in Thailand. It is really a first class work written in shades of black and grey. The characters are fascinating, and they vary from flaw...
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi “We have released demons upon the world...Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?” When the world petroleum resources were exhausted and the global economy crashed, when the power crisis c...
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