The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

PS3602.A3446

Description

What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.

Collection

Your library

Rating

½ (1856 ratings; 3.7)

Publication

Night Shade Books (2015), Edition: Reissue, 480 pages

Pages

480

Genres

Science Fiction

Physical description

480 p.; 8.9 inches

Awards

Hugo Award (Nominee — Novel — 2010)

Nebula Award (Nominee — Novel — 2009)

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2011)

Locus Award (Finalist — First Novel — 2010)

SF Site Reader's Choice (2009)

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RUSA CODES Reading List (Winner — Science Fiction — 2010)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (Winner — 2010)

British Science Fiction Association Award (Shortlist — Novel — 2010)

Seiun Award (Nominee — 2012)

Compton Crook Award (Winner — 2010)

Digital Book World Awards (Finalist — Science Fiction — 2018)

Ignotus Award (Winner — Foreign Novel 2012)

Kurd Laßwitz Preis (Winner — 2012)

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Winner — 2013)

Prix Une autre Terre (2013)

Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2009)

Locus Recommended Reading (First Novel — 2009)

Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year

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Media reviews

A Son Of The Rock

It is a reasonably convincing vision of a future rendered difficult and more threatening than even our troubled present.

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The Guardian

The Windup Girl embodies what SF does best of all: it remakes reality in compelling, absorbing and thought-provoking ways, and it lives on vividly in the mind.

The Washington Post

But the third reason to pick up "The Windup Girl" is for its harrowing, on-the-ground portrait of power plays, destruction and civil insurrection in Bangkok. Clearly, Paolo Bacigalupi is a writer to watch for in the future. Just don't wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasures of "The

Windup Girl."

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io9

One of the strengths of The Windup Girl, other than its intriguing characters, is Bacigalupi's world building. You can practically taste this future Thailand he's built [...] While Bacigalupi's blending of hard science and magic realism works beautifully, the novel occasionally sags under its own

weight. At a certain point, the subplots feel like tagents that needed cutting.