The Windup Girl
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.And as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the…
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Weitere Autoren: Bacigalupi, Paolo
- ISBN: 978-0-356-50053-9
- EAN: 9780356500539
- Produktnummer: 10221216
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 544 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.8 cm 380 g
- Gewicht: 380
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Paolo Bacigalupi is a multiple award-winning SF author whose debut THE WINDUP GIRL has been one of the most acclaimed novels in this area to appear in recent years. He also writes critically acclaimed, award-winning short stories in addition to novel length fiction. Paolo currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son,
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