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The windup girl / Paolo Bacigalupi.

By: Publisher: New York : Night Shade Books, [2015]Edition: [New edition]Description: 466 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781597808217 (trade paperback)
  • 1597808210 (trade paperback)
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Bacigalupi, Paolo. Calorie man
  • Container of (work): Bacigalupi, Paolo. Yellow card man
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3602.A3447 W56 2015
Contents:
The windup girl -- The calorie man -- Yellow card man -- Extrapolations : a conversation with Paolo Bacigalupi.
Awards:
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2010; Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2010; Crompton Crook Award, 2010; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2010.
Summary: 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.

Original novel published in 2009 with additional material added for this edition.

The windup girl -- The calorie man -- Yellow card man -- Extrapolations : a conversation with Paolo Bacigalupi.

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.

Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2010; Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2010; Crompton Crook Award, 2010; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 2010.

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