
The Windup Girl
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Davis
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By:
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Paolo Bacigalupi
About this listen
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories.
There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-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 a 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, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of The Calorie Man (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and Yellow Card Man (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.
BONUS AUDIO: In an exclusive introduction, author Paolo Bacigalupi explains how a horrible trip to Thailand led to the idea for The Windup Girl.
©2009 Paolo Bacigalupi (P)2009 Audible, Inc.Critic Reviews
- Hugo Award, Best Novel, 2010
- Nebula Award, Best Novel, 2009
- Best Books of 2009, Publishers Weekly
- 10 Best Fiction Books of 2009, Time magazine
- Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2009, Library Journal
voice actor at first grated, like he was trying to sing it as a love poem, but got used to it and his ability to give different characters voices ( so you know who is talking) is unmatched
so if he annoys you at first please stick with it! it's great
amazing
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It is understandable why this book won several awards - something fresh and real!
Enjoyable post apocalyptic story
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Stunning read of our possible future
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Surprisingly good.
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My actual rating: 4.2/5
Awesome dystopian future novel
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I wish there was more!
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This should be the second book in a series
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Thoughtful book of a future dystopia
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beautiful
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Very relatable content in our current climate
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