Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, the break-out
science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the
author.
Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a
factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok's street markets in
search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of
history's lost calories.
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Emiko is not
human; she is an engineered being, 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 this 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 and forces mankind to
the cusp of post-human evolution? Bacigalupi delivers one of the most
highly-acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
In this brand-new edition celebrating the book's reception into the
canon of celebrated modern science fiction, accompanying the text are
two novelettes exploring the dystopian world of The Windup Girl, the
Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning "The Calorie Man" and "Yellow Card Man."
Also included is an exclusive Q&A with the author describing his writing
process, the political climate into which his debut novel was published,
and the future of science fiction.
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to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science
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